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"Red River"

by Rocky Votolato
This song comes from Rocky Votolato's new record True Devotion. He'll celebrating it's release at Neumos on March 13th

Laura Veirs and the Hall of Flames

At Neumos ::: Photo by Josh Lovseth
Laura Veirs is at the Tractor Tavern March 13th with the Old Believers and Cataldo

The Round 58

March 9th at the Fremont Abbey, Tacoma's Goldfinch play the Round with local potters as the featured artists

March 3, 2009

The Daily Choice: Papercuts - Future Primative

I made it out to The Greenhouse last night for the Arbitron, Talbot Tagora, DadFag, and Transmography show and at the cost of most of the hearing in my left ear, was absolutely stunned.  The entire show, every band was impressive, but I’ve got to give my choice for the evening to Transmography.  The lead singer played a metal pole!  I was smitten.  Those who chose network television instead of the short hop to the CD should be ashamed of themselves.

This Papercuts album, You Can Have What You Want has been floating around my desk for nay two months now and I’ve given it listens here and there, and poked around with it, but couldn’t really find what everyone else was talking about.  That is, until one moody, grey day, I popped the album in on the walk home from work and was just drawn in to the ambience inherent in the album as a whole.  This isn’t an album to just listen to one track off of, it’s a full out composition, a cloud of softly built noise that condenses around Jason Quever’s remarkable voice.

Papercuts - Future Primative

Papercuts on Myspace

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February 27, 2009

The Daily Choice: The Weekend Edition

For all of you normal folk who work 40-hour work weeks for corporate overlords under the harsh glare of micro-managing goons, it’s the weekend.  You’ve got tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow night and Sunday to drink yourself silly in the company of your friends and maybe even some of these impressive bands slogging about Seattle this weekend.

For all of you dullards like myself who work at a coffee shop, this just starts a two day period where you angrily have to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, throw on some mismatched, ill-fitting clothing and proceed to try not to punch any early morning go-getters in the face.

Regardless of your life path, there’s a lot of good music playing this weekend and I want to recommend some of it.

FRIDAY:

Police Teeth, the Bismarck, & Arbitron @ The Sunset

The last time I saw Arbitron the lead singer smashed his hand against his guitar so many times that a puddle of blood formed underneath where he was standing.  After their show, a member of the next band, leaned in to his friend and disgustedly mouthed “Is that blood?”  I laughed.  These guys are loud, loud noise rock.  Part of your face will melt off.

SATURDAY:

Pica Beats, The Purrs, Love Like Fire, Globes @ The Comet

This show has my loins stirred.  All local acts, all extremely good at what they do.  Don’t fret, the mean bartenders at The Comet aren’t attacking you personally, they’re just assholes.

Army Navy, See Me River, Facts About Funerals @ The Sunset

The guy from See Me River looks like a bearded Tiny Tim, and sounds a bit like the gentleman from Crash Test Dummies who honestly reminds me a little bit like the guy from Live but without the creepy Hare Krishna topknot.  These aren’t reasons to see them though, that would be the beautiful, sweeping music they create.

SUNDAY:

Take her easy pard’ner it’s been a long weekend of boozing, you have to get back your cubicle in the morning nice and early to finish up stapling your bosses divorce papers together.

Have a good one!

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