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By Andy Bookwalter
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
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 Dropkick Murphys at Showbox Sodo
February 28, 2008
Dropkick Murphys are the
greatest band in the world, and I’ll stab anyone who says otherwise.
Lumped in with plenty of great-but-inferior street punk bands like The Swingin’
Utters, Flogging Molly and The Bouncing Souls, DKM remind me what punk rock
meant before my life crushed my delicate spirit.
I was a small town teenage slacker in the early 80’s, and punk promised
me a community and an escape from suburban mediocrity. Punk then broke that
promise, as will any subculture based on teen angst and beer.
After a few years of watching one dive punk bar after another become
condos and parking lots, I got bitter. Then one day I heard “Cadence To Arms,”
the opening shot from DKM’s Do or Die
and it all came back to me.
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By Tyson Lynn
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
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 The Wig Fits All Heads Bday Bash!
With: Shim, Das Llamas, Birdmonster, & Hockey
March 28, 2008
High Dive - Seattle
Local wordsmith shop The Wig Fits All Heads celebrates its fourth year of existence with commensurrate shows, including this Friday's gig at The High Dive with local heavies Shim, Das Llamas, Birdmonster, and Hockey.
But what is The Wig? It's the lively and growing three-headed baby of Seattle University alum Ashley Graham. Head No.1: A Seattle-based website featuring writing about music -- interviews, live reviews, album reviews, previews, occasional rants. Sorta like a little place you already know and love. Head No.2: Concert promoter booking local bands (and the occasional out-of-stater) at venues about the city. Head No. 3: Indie pr firm working with bands deserving of love and devotion. Bands like Shim, Das Llamas, Birdmonster, and Hockey.
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Music
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By Dan Lurie
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Sunday, 23 March 2008 |
 SXSW - Day 3 Recap
Friday, March 14
It's Friday morning and the bloody marys are flowing like mountain
spring water at the Red Eyed Fly. We show up as the club doors open and
start chugging the vegetable-fortified beverages, a plastic cup in each
free hand. Eight essential vitamins plus vodka, what more could you ask
for?
The Magic Bullets, hailing from San Francisco, take the stage. There's
nothing new about their sound, but the gangly lead singer (whose
wingspan might rival Kevin Garnett's) does a nice job of captivating
the crowd by swaying back and forth like an alder tree in a windstorm.
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Music
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By Dan Lurie
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Saturday, 22 March 2008 |
 SXSW – Day 2 Recap
Thursday, March 13
Today begins with breakfast tacos at Mi Madres. (Don’t worry, it’s a restaurant – I’m not going to spend the entire festival hanging out with my parents.)
Friends from the Pacific Northwest have swooped into town and we spend our morning pouring over an 85-page Excel spreadsheet prepared by my pal Jessica. It’s color-coded to indicate free shows, free food, free alcohol, and performer importance. This document would cost well over $100 to print at Kinkos.
We map out a loose itinerary for the day, then mount borrowed bicycles, and like a Super Special Olympics racing team, rumble awkwardly down the road towards 6th street. My bike, a baby blue Free Spirit, has a flat tire; only I don’t know it, yet.
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Music
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By Dan Lurie
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Wednesday, 19 March 2008 |
 SXSW – Day 1 Recap
Wednesday, March 12
You know you are headed for South by Southwest when someone boards the plane with a mandolin case and a megaphone.
Look to the overhead compartments and you’ll find so many instruments,
you’d think they decided to build a Guitar Center with wings. I’m half
expecting to find an aspiring shredder coiled up in the bathroom
playing Stairway to Heaven through a Peavey practice amp.
My friends, we are on our way to SXSW!
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Music
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By Will Wagler
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Sunday, 02 March 2008 |
Editors/Hot Hot Heat/Louis the XIV
February 10, 2008 @ Neumos
Editors came to town in early February and packed the Showbox at the Market tight.
Upon arrival, we made a bee-line through the all-ages pit to the back of the room to get a good view with the rest of the old fogies. The wifey enjoyed Hot Hot Heat frontman Paul Bayer’s enthusiastic bouncing around and keyboard antics, but I found them a little bland.
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Nada Mucho Presents
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By Graham Isaac
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
The first time I saw Lake of Falcons was last year at the Jules Mae Saloon. It was part of an aborted attempt to see Police Teeth after a long day of other obligations.
Sadly, I and my party were thwarted by south Seattle’s intricate roadwork, which seems specifically designed to put you back on the freeway with no end in sight for six more miles. Either that, or I'm just not that observant and it'd been a long time since I'd been south of the U-District. Either way…
Happily for that evening, the other two bands were also good and redeemed any frustrations with the city's infrastructure. There was the much vaunted Feral Children (whom I'm sure you can read about in any given issue of The Stranger from the last eight months) and an evening-closing performance by Lake of Falcons.
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