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By Matt Ashworth, High Potentate
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 |
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Yuletide Yumminess
Our Editor’s Favorite Holiday Pop Songs
 15. "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" – Read by Brent Barry and Vladamir Radmonovich
Taken from one of my most prized musical possessions, 2003’s Holidays With The Sonics (which also features Nick Collison, Rashard Lewis, Luke Ridnour, Ray Allen and coach Nate McMillan singing live with the Zion Preparatory Choir), this reading of the Dr. Suess classic is made extra special by the fact that Vladi reads English only slightly better than he plays defense.
14. "The Hanakuh Song" – Adam Sandler
One of Sandler’s best songs from his incredible stint on Saturday Night Live.
“You don't need deck the halls or jingle bell rock
Cause you can spin the dreidl with Capptain Kirk and Mr. spock--both Jewish!"
13. "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" – Belle & Sebastian
A tender, irony-free version of one of my favorite traditional Christmas songs.
12. "Daddy’s Drinkin’ Up Our Christmas" – John Guliak
The Loughan Brothers’ John Guliak performs this Commander Cody tale on It’s a Team Mint Xmas Vol. 2, a 2004 compilation from Canada's best Indie label. Not much color needed here; the title is pretty self explanatory.
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By Christian Klepac
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Thursday, 01 January 2009 |
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 Best Seattle Albums 2008
16. Helms Alee - Night Terror (Hydra Head)
It's no secret that metal sits at the back of the critical bus in Seattle, and that's a damn shame, but maybe Helms Alee is less metal and more the kind of ultra-heavy artcore that once dominated basements before somebody decided to call it Grunge. Whatever you call it, Night Terror is a harrowing tour through caves of twisted, howling guitar sludge, sometimes settling into hypnotic jams before breaking out into more brilliant chaos. You will emerge changed.
15. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
These guys got more ink than a Pelican Bay skinhead this year, so I'll limit my comments to this: don't be sidetracked by the unfortunate CSNY-style dad-rock revival churning up in this band's wake. Fleet Foxes is a unique, accomplished collection of warm moods and pleasant surprises that sounds classic without being slavishly retro.
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By Nada Overlord
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Sunday, 28 December 2008 |
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 Introduction by Matt Ashworth; Article by Nada Mucho Staff
Music dorks get anxious when there isn't a clear Number One. We pride ourselves on finding the next big thing and identifying the historical and cultural relevance of our obsession.
Given our current cultural climate, one would expect 2008 to be rife with critical fodder. After all, we've just overcome the oppression of an idiotic imperialistic leader just in time for the first black president to inherit a financial and political disaster. One would think such conditions would be tailor-made for passion and innovation in music.
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By Matt Ashworth
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
 What if you were a band from Great Britain that was really, really good for a long time? And what if you wrote funny songs in many styles and were one of John Peel’s favorites? Additionally, what if none of the American Indie rock geeks this writer has been associating with for the last 17 years had told him of your greatness?
Let’s take this a step further and pretend (hypothetically, of course) that this writer had used the privilege of bit torrent technology to recently download and consume every episode of the aforementioned Peel’s Festive Fifty. While we’re talking about it, let’s say this writer had just finished listening to 2004-1998 in reverse chronological order and thereby heard a bunch of your later period work, including the “Vatican Broadside” (a quick swipe at American culture and history based on a current event involving Slipnot) and the near perfect band anthem “Look Dad, No Songs,” which ends with the glorious refrain “We Better Let Him In/I’ve Heard he’s Got a Theremin?”
If that’s the case, you are Half Man Half Biscuit, and you are my new favorite band.
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By By B.A.M from Bremerton (The New Guy)
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Monday, 10 November 2008 |
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Everybody
Dies...Neutralboy Live
A Profile on the
Iconic Bremerton
Band
"EVERYBODY DIES!... EVERYBODY DIES!... EVERBODY
DIES!... EVERRYYBBOODDYY... DIES.... EVVVRREEEBBBOOODDDYYY.. DIES" a punk
rock chorus sing/shouts, while a distorted, one-chorded intro degenerates in
tempo, fading into oblivion.
"Neutralboy
Lives!!" the voices answer back with emphasis.
Then bass-mistress Mandy Reed rips in with a rising
tide-like bass line, conducting swiftly into the signature straight-ahead punk
rock of the Bremerton
band Neutralboy, kicking into its newest album, the morbidly-themonic Everybody Dies... (released in January
2008).
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