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December 26, 2008

Abbey’s Top 20 Local Songs of 2008

Since there were so many incredible local releases this year, it would’ve been negligent to not have a solely local Best Songs of 2008 list. I expanded the idea of ‘local’ to go beyond Seattle and include our musical neighbors to the south, Portland. Hope you enjoy my first Best of list of 2008, more lists coming soon!

1. The Moondoggies - Changin’

2. Wild Orchid Children - Birth of a Cabin

3. The Dutchess and The Duke - Resevoir Park

4. Kay Kay and His Weathered Undergound - Night of The Star Child’s Funk

5. The Whore Moans - Nerve Tonic!

6. J. Tillman - Steel on Steel

7. The Fleet Foxes- Mykonos

8. Sera Cahoone - Only As The Day Is Long

9. See Me River - Don’t Pray For Blood

10. The Hands - Praying Hands Make Fist (Or Be Chopped Off)

11. Blue Scholars - Butter & Guns

12. Bark Hide and Horn - Trumpeter Swan

13. Thee Emergency - Hopped Up For The Git Down

14. The Builders & The Butchers - Bringin’ Home The Rain

15. A Gun That Shoots Knives - Stay in School

16. Shy In Sunshine - Recognition

17. We Wrote The Book on Connectors - Mimosas

18. Starfucker - Pop Song

19. The New Faces - Impulse

20. Hey Marseilles - Rio

(p.s.) According to my Itunes, my most listened to local track of 2008 is Kay Kay’s: Night of The Star Child’s Funk.

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April 6, 2008

While the Rest of You Were at Over-Crowded Showbox Shows…

…we were loving our locals at The Funhouse.

Considering the incredible line up of The Mistress and the Misters, Junkface, Coconut Coolouts, and The Hands–The Funhouse should have been packed. But all you guys decided to spend 25 or 30 bucks and crane your necks at The Showboxes to see Ghostland and the Black Keys. So, while the audience at The Funhouse may have been criminally sparse, those of us who made it out were treated to an incredible show. Not even a mediocre band on the line up…my ears are still pleasantly ringing from the rock.

Mistress and the Misters (Spokane)

Mistress and the Misters