‘Rock’ Archives
WIN TICKETS TO: Black Francis
Black Francis, Cobirds: Rachel Flotard & Rusty Willoughby @ The Triple Door | 08/21 | 7:30pm & 10pm | $25 Frank Black AKA Black Francis will be performing two acoustic sets this Saturday evening at the Triple Door. He's touring with occasional Pixies keyboardist, Eric Drew Feldman, so maybe this time the Pixies requests won't be given the same awesome "f*ck you, friend" response that [...]
Song of the Day: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Hiding All Away”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have been one of my favorite musical entities since high school. The violent to gentle dark gospel atmospheres the Bad Seeds can create depending on Cave's mood and direction has been enthralling since their early 80s albums. Cave's lyrical power and voice are equally venomous and veracious. Off of Abattoir Blues released in tandem with The Lyre of Orpheus in 2004, [...]
Tonight In Music: The Trashies, Livingston Taylor, Safe & Easy
The Trashies, The Pharmacy, Shannon and the Clams, Butts @ The Black Lodge | 8/15 | 9pm | $7 | All-Ages Probably a common hangout formation for the guys of The Trashies Whether they're back to stay trashed or for a few boughts of vomiting before slinking back into the gutter, The Trashies being back in action is a victory for all. With monikers such as Billy Goat and Ronwolfman, this local [...]
Premiere: Constant Lovers – “Open Toe Heels”
Constant Lovers being all blurry and mysterious at the Comet (Photo by Sivonn Peth) After brawling around Seattle for the past two years killing the crowds with their tribal garage punk Constant Lovers are finally getting ready to put together an album this fall. Since getting started in December of 2008, the four Seattle veterans making up this force of hungover nature have made the rounds [...]
D’espairsRay and Control Keys @ The Showbox
To start the evening, the Seattle electro-scream group known as Control Keys performed to a fairly unresponsive audience. Consisting of a DJ and two dedicated vocalists, Control Keys play a fairly high schoolish mish-mash of 90s goth rock and and house synth pads. If you took Nine Inch Nails and Korn, locked them in a Hot Topic long enough for them to somehow reproduce, and handed them a [...]
Spencer Moody Interview on Noisevox
The Murder City Devils will definitely maybe put out a new album eventually Their small tour stints on the West coast and their appearance at Sasquatch last year got fans wondering about a new album and a true reunion. In the Noisevox interview below, Spencer Moody makes it perfectly clear that a new Murder City Devils album is...a strong possibility and will happen someday. To be fair the [...]
Preview: D’espairs Ray
D'espairs Ray @ Showbox at the Market | 8/6 | 7pm | $22 Adv - $25 | All-Ages You got to hand it to Japan. They sure know how to...be androgynous. Culture shock anyone? Honestly, how many of you have seen a full-blown J-Rock show? The elaborate costumes and makeup of the Japanese visual kei craze maybe on their way out if not completely out the door but the popular music scene across the Pacific [...]
Tonight In Music: Constant Lovers, Aunt Dracula, The Red Stick Ramblers
Constant Lovers, The Shots, Shakes, Rabbit @ The Comet Tavern | 8/5 | 9pm | $7 | 21+ Constant Lovers are a four piece alcohol fueled juggernaut incorporating Joel Cuplin (Triumph of Lethargy, Ghost Wars, Suffering and the Hideous Thieves) Mike Horgan (Bad Ghost) Gavin Tull-Esterbrook (Suffering and the Hideous Thieves) and Eric Fisher (Ghost Wars, Damien Jurado). Together they [...]
Grinderman Announce North American Tour Dates
Facial hair is pretty cool I guess. Nick Cave and Grinderman are officially gearing up to pillage the North American continent. Starting in Toronto, they'll be cutting a bearded sexy swath toward the West Coast all November. On November 27th, Seattle itself will no longer be safe as these infamous outlaws will be making the King Cat Theater their personal plaything in honor of their new album [...]
Trumans Water – “We Fish”
Trumans Water "breaking" it down...get it? Anyone? Apparently when two brothers are given instruments, recruit others based on a brain dead philosophy, and listen to a lot of Sonic Youth, The Boredoms, Wire, and Captain Beefheart, the result is Trumans Water. As the sonic baby of Kirk and Kevin Branstetter, the band was formed in San Diego in 1991 creating music akin to a living geometric sludge [...]
