by Campfire OK Seattle's Campfire OK will be at the Crocodile on September 23rd opening for Fences CD Release Show
Shenandoah Davis
Photo by Abbey Simmons ::: Saturday September 4th at 4:30pm Shenandoah Davis plays the Bumbershoot edition of the Round with Goldfinch and Tomo Nakayma
The Moondoggies at the Blue Moon ::: photo by Abbey Simmons
In between playing shows with Blitzen Trapper and sending us postcards from the road, The Moondoggies sat down with internet radio site Pandora at the Bonnaroo music festival and ended up talking mostly about the Blue Moon of all things. We love hearing our favorite dive get name checked to start off an interview almost as much as we love the fact that Kevin is still wearing his flannel despite what is sure to be sweltering Southern heat and humidity. See for yourself:
Sometimes, it feels like a week of local line-ups were made just for me, but few have ever felt more so than this coming week of wall-to-wall wonderful local line-ups. There are always great shows happening in Seattle, but this week is extraordinary.
Here’s what I recommend you check out and the shows you’ll most certainly be seeing us in the front row for.
We won’t be donning green today to celebrate St. Patrick’s day, but we will be listening to Macklemore’s “Irish Celebration” a couple of times. We recommend you do the same.
Some years back, I had a bit of a brain meltdown, when, for the first time, I heard a little band out of Minnesota called The Wars of 1812. Working at a record label at the time, I shoveled the bands music on to the desk of my boss, threw it any and all who would listen, and generally existed in a blissed-out coma of Wars of 1812 good.
Turning on Jagjaguwar’s new signee Peter Wolf Crier, there was a tinge of familiarity, a hint of softly hidden memory. I thought, “It sounds like Woods, but with a little more cheer.” But it wasn’t thought, it was the vocals, the winding, sunshine-y vocals that brought me back. Back to Peter Pisano, a member of The Wars of 1812.
Now, with cohort Brian Moen, he’s branched out to form Peter Wolf Crier. It’s a bit like a campfire song, a lilting tune to share around the fire, drunk on whiskey and smoke. You can hear it bouncing off the trees, the stars clear in the sky above it.
From moment one I knew Dita Vox was a rock star. The poster from $5 Cover Seattle makes me think movie star as well.
For me, an image of few people could be more iconic of my experience with the Seattle music scene than that of Dita Vox. (The first album I reviewed on Sound on the Sound was Can You Dig It?, after all.)
$5 Cover Seattle premieres next Monday (March 1st) at SIFF Cinema. Ms. Vox will be there and so will we. I’m looking forward to reporting back to you after seeing lots of our favorite stars from Seattle stages on the big screen. Dita may be the poster child, but she’ll be joined on screen by The Maldives, The Moondoggies, THEESatisfaction, The Lights and more. I can guarantee it’s going to be surreal to see, but I’m can also guarantee there’s going to be a great soundtrack.
This past weekend I was treated to something that has never happened before: two bands covering the same song on back-to-back nights. A song I’d never heard covered (outside sad sad karaoke nights) before.
The song? The don’t-mind-me-crying-in-my-whiskey and oh-so Valentines Day appropriate “Green Grass” by Tom Waits.
The cover culprits? Mountain Man doing an a cappella version on Saturday at the Josephine and Kaylee Cole breaking our hearts at the Sunset Tavern on Valentines Day.
To me, they’re both beautiful heartache. Which cover of “Green Grass” do you prefer?
The loss of the Sonics (formerly Supersonics) is still a contentious issue in this town, so it’s nice to see Manther get a little nostalgic in their recent video and song “Missin’ the Supersonics” while bringing some humor to the table too.
So I think to my self,
we can start are own franchise,
just give us Durant and a couple other guys,
just keep Robert Swift and old Donyell…
Last week Hardly Art quietly posted to Amazon a sampler of 17 of the year’s more notable tracks from artists such as Le Loup, the Moondoggies and the Dutchess & The Duke, including a few special tracks that haven’t appeared anywhere else. Lucky us, they are offering it for free to the world.
It’s all here: a Dutchess & the Duke demo, an acoustic mix from the Pica Beats, and to my delight, as the final track, a song representing the fruits of the Arthur & Yu and Moondoggies live collaboration this summer. They chose to feature “Magic Mtn,” the B-side track from Arthur & Yu’s their 2009 Record Store Day EP Don’t Piss into the Fire, a track which garnered many repeated listens on my part. That being said, it’s also a track which I’ll admit I’ve relished even more as a live song with the backing of our fearless flannel fashionistas, The Moondoggies.
In short: 17 free tracks from one of Seattle’s best houses of musical talent. You know what to do.
Part of what makes the Seattle music scene so exciting right now are the artists who aren’t on stage: the talented community of poster artists and photographers. They are as much a part of the riches of Seattle as the musicians who they chronicle and create for. It’s been a big week for celebrating the rather obscene number of talented folks who call Seattle home with photo show openings for Chona Kasinger, Jenny Jimenez, and now the showcasing of these two talented artists: Jon Smith and Tyler Soverns at the Greenwood Collective tonight.
Jon Smith (and partner Owen) are the minds and artists behind the trippy posters of SmithBellcraft. Jon has created creepy wonderful posters for local bands like Iceage Cobra and Thee Emergency, to national acts like Ghostland Observatory, Ween and The Decemeberists, and for big name festivals like Sasquatch. A number of Jon’s posters hang proudly at Sound on the Sound HQ and we’re still excited that Jon designed a poster for Sound on the Sound’s first show a few years back.
Apparently just above (or below) Jon Smith’s show will be the opening of SNAPS featuring portraits of Seattle hip hop artists by Tyler Soverns, better known as Rabid Child Images. With his unmistakable fish-eye style Tyler has been chronicling the local hip hop scene for quite a while now and I’m certain his pictures have played a big part in building the amazing momentum bands like Mad Rad and Fresh Espresso have. I knew I had to see these bands thanks to Tyler’s photos long before I ever had a chance to hear their music. SNAPS will feature his signature white background portraits that capture many of the biggest names in Seattle’s hip hop in intimate and funny moments where ego has been set down and a smile is given into.
Before you head out to a show tonight, we highly recommend you heading up to The Greenwod Collective (8537 Greenwood Ave N.) to celebrate Jon Smith and Rabid Child Images.
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