::: Monogamy Party photo courtesy of Good to Die Records Well, I think it's about time I finally do something with this thing. *Removes Sound on the Sound mailbag that is the size of a baby walrus from the corner of my room. When I open it up, the bag is teeming with cobwebs and an array [...]
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The block party on my pathetic block in Chicago is pretty much a glorified bake sale with a shitty bouncy castle which I'm not even allowed to bounce in. So the leap from my wholly depressing, completely sober, and awkward neighborhood reunion to the Capitol Hill Block Party is a paradigm shift to be sure. And to boot, it's less of a block party and more of a bona fide music festival that just happens to take place on Pike Street between 10 th and 12 th . But the focus on the Seattle/Capitol Hill district community [...]
Beat Connection ::: photo by Josh Lovseth You know what the most unfortunate thing about the "Saturday" of Block Party is? The fact that it starts at doors start 1pm. The number of people bitching about the hot nice weather blackouts will undoubtedly increase. You don't care what children do before they enter the festival gates. [...]
Capitol Hill Block Party Dance Party ::: photo by Josh Lovseth With the sun finally out two days in a row, summertime and festivals don't seem so impossibly far away. With the initial line-up announcement of Capitol Hill Block Party this morning, we can almost feel the sweat and taste the cheap beer. Here's who'll be [...]
Capitol Hill Block Party Dance Party ::: photo by Josh Lovseth With the sun finally out two days in a row, summertime and festivals don't seem so impossibly far away. With the initial line-up announcement of Capitol Hill Block Party this morning, we can almost feel the sweat and taste the cheap beer. Here's who'll be [...]
Every year, Noise for the Needy is one of our favorite local events. A great local festival, for a great cause, this year's Noise for the Needy will benefit Real Change Empowerment Project, the folks behind Real Change newspaper. Last year's NFTN raised $25,000 for charity and this year's fest with 80+ artists playing 21 [...]
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J'avais déjà mentionné leurs noms en parlant de Neofluxx il y à un moment déjà vu que c'était pour mon premier article ici. Les saligaud d'I Pilot Daemon reviennent balancer la sauce comme vous ne l'avez jamais gouté, enfin plutôt sur ce blog qui est résolument éclectique, mais qui n'inscrivait pas le punk, le hardcore, le métal ou d'innombrable sous genres dans ces pages. Je ne suis pas en train de dire qu'on va vous bombarder de ce type de son mais qu'il fera des apparitions spontanée pour vous faire découvrir d'autres horizons. J'ai rarement pris une claque [...]
Seattle's Akimbo seem like they should be easy to classify, but many subtle elements of various aggressive sub-genres find their way into the band's crushing sound and offer inviting ears a few curve-balls along the way. Guitarist Aaron Walters [one of ELEVEN axe-slingers over the band's career (!)] claims in the below interview that the [...]
Kowloon Walled City 's new record is called Gambling on the Richter Scale , which is both a homage to their San Francisco roots and an introduction to their sound. Taking a page from bands like Unsane and local heroes Neurosis , the quartet specializes in mammoth, down-tuned riffs - slabs of tectonic impact that seem summoned from the San Andreas fault itself. Built around bassist Ian Miller's monstrous tone and the sheer amperage marshaled by guitarists Scott Evans and Jason Pace, the band is undergirded by Jeff Fagundes' heavy-handed drumming and brought [...]
Bumbershoot 2009: Seattle, WA (09/05/09) Words and Photos : Drake Le Lane As promised, here is Drake 's recap from Day 1 of Bumbershoot 2009 : Bumbershoot's first day is in the books, and it couldn't have gone smoother. Weather threatened to dampen the day, with downpours through the morning, but as the gates opened, the clouds stayed at bay until well after De La Soul played their final note. Here's a few photos and brief review of each performance [...]
Bumbershoot's first day is in the books, and it couldn't have gone smoother. Weather threatened to dampen the day, with downpours through the morning, but as the gates opened, the clouds stayed at bay until well after De La Soul played their final note. Here's a few photos and brief review of each performance I managed to take in. Akimbo @ EMPSFM's Sky Church stage My day started late, but I made sure to get in for Seattle's hardcore superstars, and to bring my ear plugs. The riffs were loud [...]
Accused of being a "black-caped, black-garbed, death-worshipping church" with ranks of mindless "hooded snuffoids," they believed they were visionaries warning of the coming apocalypse. In the wake of the shootings at Columbine and with cult activity on the increase, this could have been ripped from the mainstream headlines throughout 1999. But at the end of the hippie dream, these were the charges levelled at one of the most controversial cults of the Sixties: the Process Church. In 1963, two people met at the L Ron Hubbard Institute of Scientology on Fitzroy Street, London. They were both studying [...]
Fleet Foxes at 2008 Capitol Hill Block Party Photo : Drake LeLane Drake was out at the CHBP last year , and if he can find a good babysitter, he should be back again in 2009 (but this time with his elbows deep in the pit). Anyway, here's what the initial (but quite deep) lineup for this year's Capitol Hill Block Party ( July 24 - 25th, Seattle, WA ) looks like: Sonic Youth, The Jesus Lizard, The [...]
Fifteen months after abruptly closing its doors, the Crocodile has reopened. To kick things off the venue hosted a pair of free shows. On Thursday night Hypatia Lake, the Kindness Kind and the Quiet Ones welcomed the Crocodile back to the Seattle music scene. Last night Akimbo, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, and Patrol thoroughly [...]
The speculation can (finally) end now for who will be playing the first nights at The Crocodile. It was just announced today that the club will open with two free shows of excellent local bands on Thursday and Friday. read more
It's pretty amazing that I've lived in Los Angeles for over a year and a half and I haven't yet stepped foot inside one of the city's most-famous eateries. I'm not talking about In-N-Out Burger, or Muso & Frank's, or even The Ivy. I'm talking about Roscoe's House Of Chicken 'N Waffles. The soul food restaurant chain started by a Harlem native in 1976 is probably the single most common eatery referenced by friends and family when they ask about my life in Los Angeles. I don't know why, but apparently it's really well known. My inability to visit one [...]
Jersey Shores represents a new chapter in the the book of Akimbo. Using the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 as their source material they've managed to create a thoughtful, if unruly, thematic work that surpasses everything they've recorded to date. It's not the sort of album you can recommend to just anybody, but there [...]
Free of the shackles of a major record label, The Bronx frontman Matt Caughthran seemed like a newly reinvigorated man when I spoke to him on the phone this fall. Excited about finally having a team behind the band that actually cares about the band and their awesome new record The Bronx III, Matt told [...]
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Sorry für die lange Funkstille seit meiner ersten Wortmeldung , aber mir hatte es vorübergehend die Sprache verschlagen. Ich sag nur: "Chinese Democracy"... Meine Güte... Da sind alle Metallica-Experimente von "Load" bis zu "St. Anger" richtige Meisterwerke gegen dieses überladene, überambitionierte, letztlich vollkommen seelenlose Machwerk! Lassen wir Liebhaber der härteren Töne also die Hardrock-Dinosaurier endgültig begraben und wenden uns anderen ausgestorbenen Tieren zu: den Mammuts. Forschern ist es nämlich gelungen, deren DNA zu entschlüsseln . Theoretisch könnte man mit diesem Wissen Mammuts wieder zum Leben erwecken. Nur: Das ist gar nicht nötig! Denn das Mammut [...]
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