You're probably more familiar with the Rachel Flotard (or at least her voice) than you imagine. Rachel has sung background vocals on two of Neko Case's albums ( Fox Confessor Brings The Flood and Middle Cyclone ). Neko returns the favor and appears on five tracks of Rachel's band Visqueen 's new album. Speaking of Visqueen's new album, it's entitled Message To Garcia and is currently one of the albums on heavy rotation at my place. It's impossible to not be immediately won over by Flotard's voice. Her angelic vocals are like [...]
It rained. It poured. But for our troubles we made the front page of the Seattle Weekly's coverage ! First up was my most anticipated show, Visqueen . I love them so much. Check out their video for Crush On The Radio , although my favourite song is actually Vaxxine. It came as a huge disappointment to me when they played their new album in it's entirety with neither of songs I wanted to [...]
Know why Superman feels the need to save the newspaper industry? Because FREE sells more than un-free; or, in other words, the blogs are winning. But what is our society giving up by demanding so much of everything online to be "free"? That remains to be seen, but quality investigative journalism seems to be one of the early casualties. As for the music industry, it's a similar problem we're faced with. You want FREE. We give FREE. And somewhere kittens are crying. Huh? Whatever dude, it's FRIDAY! That's right woodchuck chuckers, it's Free Music Friday time on EF!! Guilt-free LEGAL [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: CFCF : "Monolith" [mp3] from Continent (out October 27th) other CFCF posts at Largehearted Boy Ladyhawke : "My Delirium" [mp3] from Ladyhawke other Ladyhawke posts at Largehearted Boy Last Tide : "Traitor in My Mind" [mp3] from [...]
Bang Bang Eche - (You + Me) As Thick As Thieves from Bang Bang Eche on Vimeo .
The new Visqueen album, Message to Garcia , is out today. I'll tell you the truth – until a few days ago I had no idea who the hell Visqueen were. But they were nice enough to send me a copy of the first single from their new album, so I thought I'd check it out. "Hand Me Down" is a pop rock song, but it's the good kind of pop rock: more rock than pop and with a chorus that reminds me a lot of Cheap Trick. The song also has big rock 'n' roll [...]
...from the opening riff of "Hand Me Down" it's readily apparent that Seattle's Visqueen is well-versed in classic rock idioms. Even better, they flaunt them without irony. With the bravado of Cheap Trick and the she-swagger of Kim Deal/Pat Benatar/Ann Wilson, frontwoman Rachel Flotard's hooks land with precise potency. As if the track wasn't venomous enough, add in a cameo from Neko Case [who also brought in Flotard to sing on her recent Middle Cyclone and Fox Confessor Brings the Flood albums], and it's game over. "Hand Me Down" is the first [...]
Cripes! I remember loving me some Visqueen music a few years back though I seem to have lost the CD and, truthfully, had kind of forgotten about the band before receiving a link to a brand new song from the Rachel Flotard -fronted band (where ya been, Rachel????). Visqueen makes a triumphant return later this month (Sept.8) with the release of Message to Garcia on Flotard's new Local 638 Records . Yipee! Here's a preview track. [...]
Seattle's favorite girlfriend Rachel Flotard (of Visqueen and general Rachel Flotard fame) is helping Neko Case on her performance on David Letterman tonight! Also sharing the stage will be Eric Bachmann (Archers of Loaf/Crooked Fingers) on guitar. Like the watching recent Jimmy Fallon episodes didn't already remind you that Dave is King, here's another reason. Let's watch Paul drool over the double trouble duo of Neko and Rachel! read more
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I'd heard about the project of filming some of Seattle's favorite musicians in the legendary space pre-opening weekend, but I didn't quite realize "One Shot at the Croc" would be this awesome. read more
A night full of local all-stars with Jon Auer, Gavin Guss, Pablo Trucker, and Visqueen. read more
Friday, October 13th KEXP is broadcasting live from Ballard. Join KEXP as we thank Ballard for winning the first-ever KEXP hood-to-hood challenge during our last pledge drive. Friday the 13th will be a very good day, as we start out with the Morning Show live from Verite Coffee . That's followed by Cheryl Waters and Kevin Cole live from Sonic Boom Records . The broadcast goes from 6am to 6pm, and we'll have live music throughout the day. That night check out KEXP DJs spinning live in clubs around Ballard, plus a KEXP showcase [...]
I'm off to Seattle for about two weeks, and I don't think I'll have much chance to post much between then and now. And I was just getting the hang of it too.. but to make it up to you, here's a bunch of random MP3s and some news from Thunderbirds Are Now! (Get the title of the post, or is it still too weird?) I'm trying to do this quickly so I can go do some late minute packing, but here goes. Seattle Mix Tape! A random mix of mp3s from [...]
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