
What other band gets a crowd of arms-crossed concert-goers to raise their bottles of Red Strip and shake their fists to an anthem with lyrics like "Lama gama gama lama magoo!"? The Blakes --Seattle's own Garnet Kiem on guitar, Snow Kiem on bass, and Bob Husak on drums--played a farewell-and-good-luck show on Sept. 29 before taking off on a tour of the U.S. and Europe. Combining their booze-infused live show standards with exciting new songs from Souvenir , the show at Neumos was a complete slaughter. Second albums often turn out to be [...]