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Transoccupational Hazards

Modern life. So, my blog needed some maintenance, and I thought I’d put it up on blocks on the front lawn, for all the neighbors to see, and get shit done under the hood. It’s a guy thing, that fantasy of pulling wrenches for the betterment of my bits. And whammo, the weeks rolled by, the weeds grew up through my dashboard, and all my other occupations that occupy me came visiting. The days rolled by softly and quietly, and before I knew it I hadn’t posted anything in weeks. Well, that’s gonna change. I got my blog down off her blocks, fired it up, and here we go. Looks a lot like it did, but it runs a whole lot better under the hood. There’s still a ton of cool music out there, and the music industry is just as fucked up as ever. This fact is obvious when you see poor Barnes & Noble trying to figure out how to get in on some of those rising vinyl dollars, bless em. Seeing displays like this one, however, make me wonder how they’d be doing if they were just starting out selling those crazy new things called books. Damn!

When Hair Was Rock

#band packages #hair rock #humor

Vintage Pop

#Anacortes #Arts and Entertainment #Music #Sub Pop #The Rocket

Amuse Yourself

#clerks #dog trouble #video store

Got Vinyl Press? Want to know what the Indie music scene is all about, as far as how the small labels are making all those cool vinyl records?

#CD boom #Independent music #LP boom #Rainbo #Record Store Day #The Business #Untide Records #vinyl LPs #vinyl press #vinyl pressing #vinyl record #vinyl records

Amuse Your Monkey

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#Amuse yourself #Jack White #Meg White #Teatro Amazonas #The White Stripes #Third Man Records #Under Amazonian Lights #We Are Going to Be Friends

A local sighting of Ever Ending Kicks (Paul Benson) playing an in-store at The Business in Anacortes, Washington. The Business is becoming one of the most sought-after vinyl distro hubs in the U.S. I’m not kidding. It’s also a tour stop for many bands. There’s a lot of history in that small record shop. We at Untide Records are damn proud to be distributed by The Business. Damn proud.

Ever Ending Kicks

Extreme Minimalism A local sighting of Ever Ending Kicks (Paul Benson) playing an in-store at The Business in Anacortes, Washington.

#Allyson Foster #Anacortes #Anacortes Washington #EEK #Ever Ending Kicks #Hungry Cloud Darkening #LAKE #live music Anacortes #Notion Free #Paul Benson #Stephen Steinbrink #The Business #Untide Records #Weird Priorities

Sneak Peek: Coming this Spring….

#In the Morning #Keith Zarriello #The Shivers

Encircling Gloom

“We will always trick you.” —Old Man Gloom

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#Aaron Turner #Arts #Arts and Entertainment #Crocodile #live music Seattle #Old Man Gloom #The Ape of God #Washington

“You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.” —Edward Abbey

Coliseum

Darkness Is Their Candle “You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.” —Edward Abbey

Ferrymen

Ferrymen http://wp.me/s3if2j-ferrymen

“I made the whirling world stand still.”—Arthur Rimbaud

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#Coliseum #Great Falls #Live music scene in Seattle #Old Man Gloom #Seattle #The Crocodile

Angle of View

#Coliseum #Great Falls #Live music scene in Seattle #Old Man Gloom

Seattle’s Great Falls, through smoke and fire, opening for Coliseum and Old Man Gloom at the Crocodile. These are professionals. Don’t try this at home.

Great Falls

Accidents Grotesque Accidents

Walking with Angels Through Fire Seattle's Great Falls, through smoke and fire, opening for Coliseum and Old Man Gloom at the Crocodile.

#A Death Cinematic #Aaron Turner #Accidents Grotesque #Coliseum #Crocodile #drone metal #experimental metal music #Great Falls #Live music scene in Seattle #metal #Old Man Gloom #post-punk #Punk #Robocop #Seattle

Mamiffer: Statu Nascendi

Aaron Turneris to experimental metal music as Jack White is to punk blues. If metal weren’t the global network of scattered small clans of faithful followers that it is today, each with their own culture, band loyalties, and hidden symbols, it would be written about as much as people write about Jack White and the impact on modern interpretations of blues that his Third Man Records label in…

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#1 Peter #Aaron Turner #Caelestis Partus #Faith Coloccia #flesh is grass #Flower of the Field #Hydra Head Records #Isis #Lotus Eaters #Mamiffer #Mercy #New Testament #Old Man Gloom #Sige Records #St. Peter #Statu Nascendi #The Business #Their glory is like the flower in the field when all flesh is grass.

Time to expand your minds, people. Time to get in touch with your inner revivalist, and stretch them genres. Los Angeles and bluegrass. I know! Meet Rose’s Pawn Shop. You can almost feel the burn. And judging by the company this band keeps (simple folk like Jack White, Conor Oberst, Jamieson “Junior” Brown, and Flogging Molly—LA Irish punks, more stretching needed there, too, I’m afraid—you can do it!), there’s something coming in the air, something big and rootsy. Yes, there be a few urban legends already floating around about how this band got it’s name, but that’s not important right now. It’s not about who stole what, or where it got pawned, or not. What’s important right now is the sound and this band’s stage presence—they can punch holes right through the darkness. RPS is out on a mini tour for their current record, “Gravity Well” (Self Released, 2014). I caught up with them and did my stretching in Portland, Oregon, at Mississippi Studios.

Rose’s Pawn Shop

Feel the Burn Time to expand your minds, people. Time to get in touch with your inner revivalist, and stretch them genres.

Angle of View

A rare sighting at the Mississippi Studios of Seattle’s The Maldives, a band still driving hard on their latest record, “Muscle for the Wing” (Spark and Shine, 2012). The ten-year mark is tough on bands, a testing time. And the road tests everyone, mile after mile. In a time of too many choices, too much “new” arriving every day, it’s a good thing to have bands you can count on. The Maldives is one band that powers on past the easy comparisons and empty predictions, to stay the course and do what they do. No small talk and no goodbyes. Tough as train smoke.

The Maldives

Still On Their Fast Train A rare sighting at the Mississippi Studios of Seattle's The Maldives, a band still driving hard on their latest record, "Muscle for the Wing" (Spark and Shine, 2012).

#alt country #alternative #Ballard #Live music Portland #Maldives #Mississippi Studios #Muscle for the Wing #rare sighting #Spark and Shine #The Maldives

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