Monday, July 18, 2011

SEATTLE Jul 21 2011 experimentally chill drone thing

Jul 21 2011 at the Josephine 
09:00 PM


PIERCE WARNECKE (BERLIN, now that's what I call far-out!)
http://piercewarnecke.com/
MEGABATS (Sam and Riley make some pretty happening sounds)
http://www.myspace.com/megabats
STASIS FIELDS (members of Portable Shines, Mood Organ, Midday Veil)
http://www.myspace.com/portableshrines
KARNAK TEMPLES (Adam S. former Du Hexen Hase, Dull Knife, New Album out on Debacle Records soon)
http://debaclerecords.com/

Friday, July 15, 2011

Noteworthy Noise in Seattle July 29th 2011

My favorite thing about a John Weiss bill is that it flushes out a top notch showing of local supporting talent. Blowupnihilist is a pacific northwest hevyweight who's 2+ years of hiatus in the experaelectro-terror-grind circuit, caused concern for fans and friends alike. After what seems like a hugely successful double-lung transplant, I'm very please to report that [Andre] appears to have shaken the paleface, thin-and-bones schtick, and is now a healthy, hyper-active workhorse. His chops are just as meaty as ever. Rapid-fire ballistic drum-machines seared with the flames of smokin fast grind riffs pave the way for bowel rumbling growls and diaphragm erupting howls.
My first time seeing Self Com wont be my last. SelfCom played a dark, ereily bleak table full of electronics. Heavy waves of slow grim walls pushing and steamrolling over your face. Evil screams exposing razor wire like grins. Hypnotic peircing stare of cold blue eyes paralyze me while I witness what can only be described as a demon, purging his own demons. Cast thee from thy heaven and propagate thy sins.
[73] aka Slates has become a staple when it comes to great local bills. [73] continues to maticulously hone in on specific niche fassets of his sound explorations and the results have yielded a slew of memorable releases and live sets over the course of the last 4 or 5 years. Mostly noted for his HNW endeavors, [73] delivered a much more death-industrial motivated performance at this show. Much heavier emphasis on layers of movement and sound shaping. Intervals of knob tweaking and tuning up throbbing walls to ride were broken up by stints of booming sub-pitched vocal readings of what I assume was a print-out of a William Shakespear sonnet or something. It all came off sounding very cohesive as I started to feel like I was witnessing an old school icon like Brighter Death Now performing before my eyes. These extremely aggressive vocalizations foreign to Slates previous works were bone chilling and enjoyably terrifying. a most unexpected direction from the debut? of Slates new [73] moniker.




At the Josephine, July 29th, 9pm

John Wiese (laptopper from the LA)
Demian Johnston (crusty Seattilte)
[73] (formerly Slates)
Blowupnihilist (triumphant return!)
Self Communion (Nic of Feeding)
Ground Tissues (another triumphant return!)


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fly by D.J.

Black and Blue Doom in SEATTLE July 23 2011

Never been to the HIGHLINE in CapHILL before.
sounds like a place where hipsters congregate to hate on other hipsters.
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer is playing. They're like Seattle's most elite blackened noise group or something.
never heard of the other bands before. pretty metal centric bill. Sutekh Hexen has tracks on their myspace that sound fucking nigh. its kinda like a black metal approach to a noise style output from the 2 tracks i heard. local band Bellwitch sounds pretty fucking raw and worthy. in a quick pinch, I'd compare them to Times of Desperation or Burials cept with more grime and gunk behind their ears. Pale Chalice and Folivore both sound like 80's blandtastic scream0annoyme Nevermore stylings and that isnt a compliment by any standard. cool flyer though. Perhaps Demian J made it?
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

DebacleFest 2011 in Seattle

In Seattle, when shit gets hot, shit gets weird. Mid-late August is nearing and Seattle's Debacle Records have rolled out another heaping helping of Experimental/Noise/Other in live and/or recorded format for this years DebacleFest.... what do you make of it? 




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Thursday, Aug 18th
The Josephine
Doors 8:30


Harassor
Hive Mind
Thunder Grey Pilgrim (CD release)
Slates
Hellgrammite

Friday, Aug 19th
The Black Lodge
Doors 7:30


Tiny Vipers
The Slaves
This Blinding Light (CD release)
Hive (CD release)
Garrincha & The Stolen Elk
The Polyps
Crystal Hell Pool (CD release)
Mind Alien (CD release)

Saturday, August 20th 
The Black Lodge
Day show
Doors 2:30


USF
Big Spider's Back
Tjutjuna
Sorry (CD release)
Vitamins
Megabats (CD release)
Secret Colors (CD release)
U (CD release)

Saturday, August 20th 
The Lo Fi
Evening show
Doors 8:30


Brain Fruit (CD release)
Konntinent
Operative
Golden Retriever
Brother Raven
Plankton Wat
Panabrite

DJ's
Garek Druss
DJ Slow

Sunday, August 21st
The Josephine
Doors 8:00


Blue Sabbath Black Cheer (CD release)
Demian Johnston & Mink Stolen
Summon Thrull (CD release)
Karnak Temples (CD release)
LA Lungs
Paintings For Animals
Wind Swept Plains

Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet is coming to SEATTLE!!!


Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet 

The Midget

Jabon 

The Druggies



Thursday, July 28, 10pm ___2011
Rendezvous
2322 2nd Avenue 
Seattle, Washington 98121
 
low-key with a tinge of gutter tramp hipster poshness
try the BBQ western burger




Prepare to have your mind blown by the haunting creaks and groans of modular synthesizer wizards Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet, and the dark ambient avant guarde disco comedy of Jabon. Be soothed by The Midget's Krauty trance-pop and sink into the The Druggies psychotropic evil garage.

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