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April 11, 2008
The Weekend Approaches
This weekend provides a bevy of offerings for your aural pleasure. They include but are not limited to:
Friday April 11
The Shackeltons at Easy Street Records (6pm, $FREE)
Cat Power at Showbox SODO
Saturday April 12
The Avett Brothers at Neumos
Katharine Hepburn’s Voice at the Blue Moon Tavern ($FREE)
Sunday April 13
The Rock Lottery at Neumos ($10) – 25 musicians are broken up into five bands, given 12 hours to come up with a 3-5 song set with a limit of one cover, and then asked to perform said songs in front of a crowd.
Whalebones, Feral Children at the Cha Cha ($FREE)
In addition to that, the EMP Pop Conference is going on at the EMP at Seattle Center through Sunday.
April 2, 2008
A Rock Lottery
Ever wondered what would happen if you randomly selected a bunch of musicians to form a five person band, write and compose three songs in twelve hours, and then perform those songs that very evening? This is exactly the premise for the annual Rock Lottery, which recruit’s 25 willing subjects to form five bands, who will play Neumos the very day they are thrown together. This year’s list of participants draws from all over the Seattle music scene. Here’s the details in text:
SEATTLE ROCK LOTTERY 04 Sunday April 13th, 2008 Doors open at 8pm (1st band starts PROMPTLY at 10pm) at Neumos – 925 East Pike Street Seattle, Washington 98122, www.neumos.com Advance tickets available at – www.ticketswest.com $10 admission, 21+
Participants include: Ty Bailie (Dept. of Energy, Mark Pickerel and his Praying Hands) Mike Bayer (Amateur Radio Operator, Evangeline) Larry Brady (Biography of Ferns, Shorthand for Epic) T. Tacket Brown (Two Loons for Tea, Jonny Sonic, Hayley Sales) D. Crane (BOAT) Joel Cupland (The Hideous Thieves, Triumph of Lethargy) DV One (Rock Steady Crew) Jesy Fortino (Tiny Vipers) Jen Gay (Kaliningrad, Minirex, Buttersprites) Jorge Harada (Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers) Jamie Henkensiefken (H Is for Hellgate) Bill Horist (Master Musicians of Bukkake, Ghidra) Laurie Kearney (Ships, Palmer AK) Kevin Kmetz (God of Shamisen, Estradasphere) Rory McAuley (Eastern Grip) Tony Moore (Foscil, Scape) Luc Reynaud (Luc Reynaud and the Lovingtons) Paul Rucker (Paul Rucker LARGE Ensemble) Whiting Tennis (Whiting Tennis) J. Tillman (J. Tillman) Tilson (The Saturday Knights) Noah Star Weaver (USE) Curt Weiss aka Lewis King (The Rockats, Beat Rodeo) Brian Yeager (Elam, The Bromantics, Strap Straps) +1 to be announced
Should be quite an interesting time to say the least. Previous notable contestants in the Seattle Rock Lottery include David Bazan, Sean Nelson, John Roderick, Shane Tutmarc and Damien Jurado.
