Grand Opening 7/3/10 -The Whore Moans from Columbia City Theater on Vimeo.

We don’t give a fuck what they call themselves, we love Jason, Jonny, Ryan and Nikki. This video, filmed after the Whore Moans final show at Columbia City Theater shows us about a hundred of the reasons why we do. Here we recap a few of the most important reasons:

1. They slay on stage.
2. They are hilarious. “Did you hear that Stranger Bloggers?”
3. They describe playing Columbia City Theater like “doing a supermodel and finding out she’s not stuck up.”
4. They are still Seattle’s finest screamers.
5. They are doing their part to keep their promise of making sure Columbia City Theater remains an awesome rock venue for a hundred years to come, by taking the stage again on September 10th for a Sound on the Sound Presents show.
6. They are better every time we see them and we’ve seen them more than probably any other local band. We are positive this will be true in their new incarnation as well.

Hope to see you September 10th when Hounds of the Wild Hunt, Hobosexual and Baltic Cousins play a “Bill from the Ashes” at Columbia City Theater. You can pre-purchase your tickets HERE.

Whore Moans @ CCT - White Noise from Columbia City Theater on Vimeo.

Come September 10th we’ll be celebrating the new incarnations of some of our favorite disbanded bands at Columbia City Theater. Taking the stage will be The Hounds of the Wild Hunt (formerly the Whore Moans), Hobosexual (featuring members of Vindaloo and Iceage Cobra) and Baltic Cousins (featuring members of Black Eyes & Neckties and The Russians). Bring your ear plugs, because it’s going to be a loud night of rock’n'roll you won’t want to miss.

Pre-Purchase Tickets HERE
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Much thanks to Bradley Lockhart for another gorgeous poster. You can share your appreciation for Brad’s work when he takes the stage as the frontman for Baltic Cousins.

The Head and The Heart ::: photo by Josh Lovseth

Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground ::: photo by Josh Lovseth

We can’t really review Friday night’s sold-out show at Columbia City Theater with The Head and The Heart and Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground. It would be like asking us to judge our own baby in a cute contest, it is impossible to have the objectivity to do so. What we can do, is say thank you.

Thank you to everyone who came out to the show, it sold out by The Head and The Heart’s second to last song. Thank you to The Head and The Heart and Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground for not just playing, but playing with inspiration and beauty. Thank you to Columbia City Theater for having us put on nights like this, where we get to watch our dreams unfold in a manner so big and beautiful that there aren’t words to express the pride and happiness they make us feel. Thank you to Kevin Sur who trusted my judgment enough to let me book a band back in early April that had never gotten an inch of press. Thank you to Josiah and all of you who cheered when my Mom and Dad were shouted out as members of the audience. And thank you to all of you who sang along to The Head and The Heart, hearing your sweet choir accompany the band made me feel like I was witnessing, and that I have been a part of something supremely special.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

See More Photos from the Evening on Our Flickr

Ben Harwood of Hobosexual ::: photo by Abbey Simmons

When we started the blog we never considered the heart break we’d feel, multiple times a year, when our favorite bands decided to part ways and stop playing music together. But then again, we never realized the excitement we’d feel when the members of those dearly departed bands started new projects to fall in love with. Our September Sound on the Sound presents bill at Columbia City Theater seeks to celebrate some of our favorite new bands birthed out of the demise of some of our favorite former local bands: The Whore Moans, Vindaloo, Black Eyes & Neckties and Iceage Cobra.

On September 10th Sound on the Sound is pleased to present:
Baltic Cousins (featuring members of BENT and Russians)
Hobosexual (featuring members of Vindaloo and Iceage Cobra)
Hounds of the Wild Hunt (formerly known as The Whore Moans)

You can purchase tickets for $8 via Brown Paper Tickets!

Baltic Cousins ::: photo by Abbey Simmons

The Whore Moans ::: photo by Josh Lovseth

Even if we hadn’t booked this show, there is nowhere in Seattle we’d rather be this Friday than seeing Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground and The Head and The Heart at the Columbia City Theater. It promises to be a beautiful night of local music with two of our very favorite bands at one of our very favorite venues. It’s a night not to be missed. (And KEXP agrees with us …)

Thanks to our partners at Columbia City Theater, we’ve got a pair of tickets to this dream local line up! Just drop your name in the comments (with your real email so we can notify you if you win!) and we’ll chose a winner at random on Thursday at 9am PST. If you win, your name will be on the guest list with a plus one!

And because there will only be one winner, don’t forget that you can pre-purchase tickets through Brown Paper Tickets. If you don’t win, we recommend you do … this show already looks like it’s going to sell out.

Monday’s edition of the RUMBLE at the Havana Social Club brings together a couple of bands introducing a new spin to point’s of view that feel steeped in history. This month they’ve managed to artfully match local band See Me River to another band that makes actually sense. This is no easy task as the Kerry Zettel fronted band one of Seattle’s most noticeable and distinct Americana bands. Distinct because they aren’t trying to sound like anyone else. Noticeable because Zettel sings with an unmistakable vocal personality that makes the songs alive.

The rising act given the opportunity to build on their own name with the honor of traveling with this month’s RUMBLE is L.A.’s Rumspringa, a band rooted in the blues and very interested in building songs with a thick tone palette. Comparison’s to the efforts of the Black Keys aren’t off base, but this also doesn’t convey the range of what they’re attempting to offer. The two songs below are a nice way to start getting a sense of what mean, a modern one featuring a very SoCal musical breakdown, and another one that very effectively blurs the line between rock and blues but could be easily labeled either:

Sway by cantorarecords


Queer Eyed Boy by cantorarecords

If you like what you hear, show up around 9pm on Capitol Hill for the Trumer Pils specials and some dense, organic, West Coast music.

We just got back the beautiful poster for our August 6th Sound on the Sound presents show at Columbia City Theater with Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground and The Head and the Heart. We commissioned local artist Jill Labieniec to do the poster and even though we’ve been fans of her work for years, we think she out-delighted herself (and us) with this one.

You can purchase tickets for the show at Brown Paper Tickets and we do recommend you get them before the day of the show, we expect the show to sell out and we definitely don’t want you to miss it.

It’s here! It’s finally here! Since February, we’ve been eagerly awaiting the day we could fling the door open and invite you to join us in celebrating the Seattle’s newest old venue, Columbia City Theater and our partnership with them.

Tomorrow you can see for yourself just why we think Columbia City Theater is on its way to becoming one of Seattle’s most beloved venues and get your first glimpse at where we’ll be hosting monthly Sound on the Sound sponsored showcases. And of course, then there’s the real attraction: a FREE show featuring two of Seattle’s best bands and one of our very favorite pairings, The Maldives and Zoe Muth and Her Lost High Rollers. We’ve seen these guys share the stage a few times and each time has been better than the last, so we’re eager to see just what kind of honky tonk heaven they’ll deliver us to tomorrow.

So put on your party flannel and groom your summer beard, because we’re bringing a little bit of Old Ballard Avenue to Rainier Avenue for the night and we’re hoping you’ll all join us. It’s going to be a night of drinking, dancing, singing and celebrating … and if you have yet to see the Theater, a night of jaw-dropped discovery. We can’t wait to cheers a can of Vitamin R with you all to the success of Columbia City Theater, the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Sound on the Sound and what’s sure to be a great night of local music.

Just had to share this beauty of a poster courtesy of Bradley James Lockhart for out first showcase at Columbia City Theater on July 2nd.

Hopefully you’ve already saved the date for us, The Maldives, Zoe Muth and Her Lost High Rollers and your new favorite local venue. It’s a free show, with some of our very favorite bands, so show up early to celebrate with us!

The Head and the Heart ::: photo by Josh Lovseth

Even though it’s a few months away, we couldn’t wait to share the exciting news. We’ve just confirmed the second Sound on the Sound line-up at Columbia City Theater and it promises to be an incredible evening of lush pop music. Plus,  if we tell you now there’s virtually no excuse for you to miss it.

So save the date and mark your calendars:

August 6th, 2010

Sound on the Sound Presents:

Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground
and
The Head and The Heart

At Columbia City Theater

Of course we were going to invite our new favorite up and coming local band The Head and The Heart to play. The real challenge  was finding a band that would match their passionate performance and pain-stakingly crafted songs on stage. One band immediately came to mind: Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground and their sweeping orchestral psychedelia. Both bands have a touch of Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville to some of their songs, so it is only fitting the pair will play for the first time together in Washington State’s oldest vaudeville theater.  Just thinking of these two bands sharing the same stage is enough to make us giddy … we hope it has the same affect on you. See you August 6th!

Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground ::: photo by Josh Lovseth