Video: The Intelligence - "The Unessential Cosmic Perspective" | Market Hotel | 9.11.2009

Honestly, I wasn't expecting all the moshing and crowd surfing. I'd hopped in a cab seconds after seeing Wild Beasts for a third time in one week and headed to Market Hotel to see Seattle's finest purveyors of bent surf garage. On record, The Intelligence are genuinely weird, like they try and make normal music and this is what comes out. It's not dissimilar to what Sic Alps or Thee Oh Sees do, but there's a sinister edge, kind of like in a David Lynch movie. Slightly uncomfortable. But live, Lars Finberg and the [...]

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tonight in NYC * DANCE * Chuck Berry @ BB King's * The Angry Samoans @ Southpaw * The Feelies @ Bearsville Theater * Holy Ghost! (DJ) @ Santos Party House * Miss Kittin, The Hacker @ Irving Plaza * Kings of Leon, Glasvegas @ Izod Center * Telefon Tel Aviv, The Race @ Mercury Lounge * All Tomorrow's Parties @ Kutshers Country Club [...]