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September 25, 2009

The Daily Choice: Sweet Tea – If I Was A Carpenter

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I like surprise.  Presents when I come home.  Finding twenty dollars in the pocket of a unworn coat.  You know, the little things.  Thus, when word that Alex Maas, the drone-y yaller from The Black Angels, and Erika Wennerstrom, the throaty holler of Heartless Bastards, were putting together a few tracks, I was nicely surprised.

The surprise continued (call it an avalanche of surprise) when the two song 7″ that was thrust in to my hands was a beautiful cover of one of my absolute favorite Cash and Carter songs, “If I Was A Carpenter”.  I nearly drowned in surprise when the song was a hazy, eyes-squinted take on the classic.  A take I couldn’t stop listening to.

I pass my pleasant surprise to you.  Enjoy.

Sweet Tea – If I Was A Carpenter

April 10, 2009

The Daily Choice: Vampire Hands – Safe Word

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I’ve been hankering to see this band Waavves for a while now, and when I found out they were playing on Monday I got a bit tingly.  And when I get tingly I get sort of OCD and start acquiring every bit of information and piece of music I can possibly find to prepare me for the upcoming event.  Thus, I’m digging through the back catalogs of the openers for the show and stumble upon Vampire Hands, a positively fantastic little goth-y psych rock band that well, I wanted to share with you.

This is Black Angels but bereft of the swaggering pulse, replaced with a sort of sad-eyed dirge.  It makes me think Southern Gothic for some reason, huge columns festered with mold but surrounded by pale-faced debutantes teetering at the edge of a world that no longer exists.  It’ll get under your skin, it’ll fill the space behind your eyeballs, and you’ll have to breath and breath deep to get it out.

Vampire Hands – Safe Word

Vampire Hands on Myspace

April 10, 2008

Noise for the Needy Announces Lineup

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We love Noise for the Needy. We love that they host kick ass concerts every year for a great cause, Seattle’s Urban Rest Stop. It’s looking like 2008′s line up is going to be another triumph for Noise for the Needy with great national and local bands playing.

June 11th – Black Angels, The Warlocks – Neumo’s June 12th – Two Gallants, The Quiet Ones, Facts About Funerals – Tractor Tavern June 14 – Matt and Kim, Yacht, Feral Children, No-Fi Soul Rebellion – Neumo’s June 15th – Talib Kweli, Common Market, Grayskull, Gabriel Teodros – Showbox

Between now and June we can expect future announcements about shows featuring:

Math and Physics club, Boat, The Maldives, Abodox, Andy Werth, Black Nite Crash, Curtains for You, Open Choir Fire, H is for Hellgate, Star Anna, Past Lives, Tulsi, Billy Joe and the Dusty 45s, The Girls, Ali Marcus, Amateur Radio Operator, Lonesome Rhodes and the Good Company, Grand Hallway, See Me River and the Dead Horse Creek, Partman Parthorse, Strong Killings, The Oswald Effect, The Heavy Hearts, Goldie Wilson, Peter Parker, Massy Ferguson, Carrie Clark and the Lonesome Lovers, Levi Fuller, Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden, Black Whales, Lesbian, Fucking Eagles, Onry Osborn, D Black, Mos Generator, New Faces and many more

We can’t wait!