The Helio Sequence plays Neptune Theatre this Sunday photo by Dave Lichterman As we rip through February, things are heating up in Seattle. Some great choices this week. On Tuesday night, "roll-up" your Mardi Gras sleeves with Cam'Ron and Nacho Picasso at the Crocodile. On Wednesday night, have some fun with Debacle Records and Daniel Bachman, Jordan Fuller, and Lori Goldston at the Rendezvous. Thursday, enjoy a killer dark synth show at Chop Suey with Black Marble, Stephanie, and Tokyoidaho . Also, The Growlers, Night [...]
The third volume of the Circle Into Square Compilation has been out for a little while now. It's a sampler of new and unreleased tracks from our favorite downtempo electronic/folk record label based in Portland, Circle Into Square (which is partnered with Fake Four, Inc. ). Listen. Tracklisting: The Harvey Girls / 222 Sealions (mp3) Big Pauper / Eleven Years After (mp3) COHO LIPS / Everyday Was A [...]
December starts off with a full week of fantastic new shows to tell you about. Monday sets the bar high for one of our favorites bands - Simian Mobile Disco at Neumos. On Thursday, Neumo's hosts another must see show with Charles Bradley and The Mehanan Street Band , and you can also check out John Cale and Cass McCombs at Showbox at the Market. On Friday, make sure you don't miss Allen Stone and Lemolo at Paramount Theatre. You can also go support a great cause [...]
It's time to check out a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. Listen. Downloadables: Static (mp3) by Black Marble Insides (mp3) by The Soft Moon Fang ( Black Marble Lost Borough Remix) (mp3) by [...]
GT's favorite vocal loop artist ALASKAS has embarked on a new musical project that blurs the lines between hip-hop, doo-wop, electronics and noise. Dillon James Rego is Feelin' Blue finds ALASKAS singing "ten forgotten doo-wop and teen pop rarities from the early sixties". A limited run cassette is now available for preorder (with immediate digital download). The cassette comes out on September 7th via the Prison Art label, and once it is sold out, the digital version will be available as a free download. A cassette release party [...]
It's time to check out a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. Listen. Downloadables: A Ring On Every Finger (mp3) by Liars Lots (mp3) by Dan Deacon Flushing Meats (mp3) by Eric Copeland [...]
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the July 2011 Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: Slime [...]
Behind the curtain - Mahogany visit the Emerald City. Photos by Paige K. Parsons + Brian O'Shea
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Kyle Hargus and Jason Baxter are from Seattle and until recently went by the name “Universal Studios Florida.” I can only assume that copyright concerns caused them to shorten it to USF, though maybe they just wanted to make their moniker more Google searchable. Whatever the reason, fans of the duo’s earlier releases—especially 2009’s lo-fi jungle-pop Ocean Sunbirds cassette—need not worry; their name change has, if anything, signaled a tightening of their sound. Tribal drums, your childhood’s memory of electronic music, and stoned loops still abound on their latest release, The Spray, which first came out back in [...]
MIXTAPE MONDAYS! MY FRIENDS DO COOL SHIT EDITION w/mixes by my budz, Head Underwater, Sacred Animals, Forty Ounce Clothing, and these bros in DC I plan on being friends with soon (they just don’t know it yet) Subterranean A. RECRUDESCE - Head Underwater Mixtape /re·cru·desce/ - To break out anew or come into renewed activity, as after a period of a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction . The homie Jimmy of Head Underwater is back from blog [...]
Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the January 2011 Mix and find out. You can stream (and scrobble ) all the songs in this mix using the ex.fm player at the bottom of the page OR you can just download any or all of the tracks at your leisure and play them using a digital media player of your choice. Downloadables: Constant Future [...]
The boys of psych-pop duo USF have reason to celebrate this season, with two releases in the running for KEXP's year-end best-of poll, a new collaboration receiving critical praise, and several recent performances under their belts. Nearly a year after its release in January, their Jamaica Plain EP, rife with danceable beats, humming synths and swooping string loops, drew crowds to The Comet and The Neptune over the past month. A newly released track that saw USF team up with former Deli Band of the Month, Witch Gardens , has also been attracting attention. "I'm Not Dead, [...]
Who knew that all we had to do was party? - Humans Who knew? Probably everyone who has already made plans to head to the Comet on Saturday night, when local party heavyweights Don't Talk To The Cops are grand marshaling the good times parade with support from Vancouver's Humans and local talents Sports and USF. USF [...]
Oct 30, 2011, 5:15pm
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USF - Point Break II I'd rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze, than be stilled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function is to live, not to exist. - Evel Knievel , quoting Jack London [beginning issue #1] Penned by Seattle's Jason Baxter [of USF ] & Mac Hamilton with artwork produced by New York's [...]
Seattle's USF (Universal Studios Florida) released a texturally striking pop album yesterday, on Portland's Circle Into Square, completely based on and titled after a Jonathan Lethem short story, "The Spray". The story is about a young couple who get robbed, The police come to help them file the report and the couple can't figure out exactly what was stolen. The police use a spray, apparently a new invention, that shows the invisible objects that were taken as glowing, salm...
MISTER HEAVENLY, WATERS, ANNE ( Branx , 320 SE 2nd) See our article on Mister Heavenly . DESCHUTES STREET FARE: THE BUILDERS AND THE BUTCHERS, OLD LIGHT, LOST LANDER, HILLSTOMP (NW Davis between 10th and 11th) For the second year running, the Deschutes Street Fare block party celebrates the important things in life: beer (from Deschutes, natch), food (from a panoply of local food carts), and music (the Builders and the Butchers, Lost Lander, [...]
Prior info on the new record here . East Mercer micro-venue/vintage boutique/workshop/ mixtape purveyor Cairo is now in the record label business. Check out their new online store for Golden Fjord , as well as other great local albums such as Lunar from Secret Colors , USF's Jamaica Plain EP , Flexions' Leisure Time LP, and Stephanie's self-titled EP for GGNZLA . "Her War" is a bouncy, giddy-up tune and the strikingly goofy visuals presented here are a nice [...]
This video is also rated NSFW, but mostly because it might give your coworkers epilepsy than for anything else. USF - "Close Your Eyes" (NSFW) from USF Band on Vimeo . The Seattle electronica will release The Spray on October 25th through Circle Into Square Records. Download/listen to the .mp3 below: USF: "Close Your Eyes"
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