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By C-Leb
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
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 Capitol Hill Block Party
Friday, July 23, 2010
I had an itinerary in mind when I showed up to get my press pass: Unnatural Helpers, Champagne Champagne, Head Like A Kite, Holy Fuck, Jaguar Love, Fruit Bats, and SING SING. The earliest I could make the gate was 6 p.m. and when I arrived, there were two lines more than 300 people deep.
The third line was for guest lists and was much shorter, and for future reference the press passes are in the third line – the one labeled “guest list.” I only know this after I stood in the longer A-L will call line for an hour and a half before someone told me “wrong line.” Not complaining… just telling you how my day started.
I got in about 8 p.m. hoping to catch the end of Champagne Champagne (Unnatural Helpers had finished), but they were on the 21+ side which was another 30 minute line away. In the meantime Yeasayer was rocking the main stage and sounding great, but it served only as background music as I headed to the Neumos stage. It was time for a beer before Head Like a Kite.
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By Nada Overlord
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Friday, 23 July 2010 |
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Capitol Hill Block Party
July 23-25, 2010
Pike Street & 12th Ave
Seattle, Wa
 Over the years, the Capitol Hill Block Party has evolved from a grassroots weekend showcase of local talent to a three-day party boasting national acts and high-profile corporate sponsorships like Miller, Dickies and AT&T.
Popular opinion on this evolution is divided into two distinct camps: 1) those who bemoan the corporatization of a community event and long for the days when you could get 10 dollar tickets at the gate to see your friends' bands play and 2) those who think it's gonna be damn cool to take the bus to Capitol Hill and see Jack White and the Dead Weather play in the middle of Pike street.
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Nada Mucho Presents
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By Chris McCann
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Saturday, 17 July 2010 |
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Roadside Graves Live in Seattle
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
(Sunset Tavern, Monday August 9)
 There’s an element of the tent revival to the Roadside Graves. This shambling country band from Metuchen, New Jersey, inhabits a world full of the lonely and the lost, the unfulfilled and the unredeemed. Think dissolute Americana sung by an itinerant preacher. Bob Dylan and Shane MacGowan sharing a bottle. Flannery O’Connor in a lowdown saloon.
The Graves have been around for eight years now and have released a series of albums of increasing complexity and depth. Their narrative songs confront loss with wheezing accordion and keening fiddle, and battle death with barroom piano and ragged guitar. Throughout it all, lead singer John Gleason’s raspy voice — equal parts resignation, bourbon, and hope — struggles to understand the fragility of everything that keeps us alive.
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By Matt Ashworth
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Sunday, 20 June 2010 |
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Georgetown Musicfest
June 25-26, 2010
The Georgetown Music Fest (GTMF), now in its fifth year, has an increasingly important role in Seattle's outdoor summer festival circuit.
While no one's complaining that the once-neighborhoodly Capitol Hill Block Party has evolved in to a massive three-day affair boasting the same caliber of hip national acts as Sasquatch! and Bumbershoot, this change means fewer up-and-coming local bands get their chance at an outdoor audition on the big stage this summer.
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By Marika Malaea
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Sunday, 06 June 2010 |
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Sasquatch 2010
Monday, June 1
 The Sasquatch line-up on Monday was an amalgam of musical genres and inappropriate comedy designed to blow your fucking face off. Many reviewers focus on delivery, set-list, crowd response, and personal opinion, but sometimes fans give the most revealing reviews. Behold, the power of eavesdropping.
Morning Teleportation
"Why did I think these guys would be like My Morning Jacket? Maybe the word 'morning.'"
"My acid-tripping uncle would fucking love these guys."
"I just used the word 'groovy' in my tweet. I blame this band."
"This is so not what I expected. It's bouncy! Let's get drunk."
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By Ben Allen
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Saturday, 05 June 2010 |
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Sasquatch! 2010
Sunday, May 30 2010
 “Whoomp! (There It Is)? Really?”
Someone was blasting the strip club anthem as we pulled in to the Gorge parking lot. I turned to my festival partner, The Admiral, and said, "apparently this is the official song for Sasquatch! tail gate parties."
Unlike Saturday's Nada correspondent, I had my special bracelet and was through the security in seconds. We walked to the top of the amphitheater and set up shop at a comfortable little grassy spot as The Long Winters were about half way through their main stage set. Their performance was solid, but unremarkable, so I sprawled out in the grass, closed my eyes and did a little "festival meditating” while The Admiral headed over to the Bigfoot stage for Cymbals Eat Guitars.
He later described the Staten Island band as having a very dynamic, innovative sound. "There were elements of shoe gaze, post-rock and indie stuff in there.” "Sometimes I felt like I was hearing My Bloody Valentine, other times it was Cursive." In other words, I’m sorry I missed it.
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By Ben Allen
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Monday, 31 May 2010 |
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Sasquatch 2010
Sunday, May 30
Ben's full account of Sunday's hot, hairy Sasquatch! action will be up tomorrow, but in the meantime, here's what he was blathering about over at www.twitter.com/nadamucho.
 Apparently "Whoomp, There it Is" is the official song for #sasquatch tailgate parties.
Long Winters end their set with the Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey." Weird. #sasquatch
Every They Might Be Giants song in this set sounds like it belongs in a Spongebob Squarepants cartoon. #sasquatch
This #sasquatch media center = heaven. A quiet, private area with clean bathrooms and snacks.
Holy smokes @subpop's Avi Buffalo are some energetic young whippersnappers! #sasquatch
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