Year: 2007

News Highlights

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Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festy has announced a few 2007 musical acts including: The Shins, Wu-Tang Clan, DeVotchKa, Devendra Banhart and Gogol Bordello.

You have until Thursday to enter Sub Pop’s best worst band name contest. Will it be Sh-Sh-Sh-Shark Attack!!!? Will MC Vagina receive honorable mention for having songs called, “Pap Smear Leviathan” and “Wombasaurus”? Results will be posted on Friday the 13th.

NME reports that a Pixies tribute album, Dig For Fire, will be released in November featuring contributions by Mogwai, J Mascis, British Sea Power and The Rosebuds.

Tonight:  Andrew Bird on Letterman, Cold War Kids on Conan and Scanners on Carson Daly.

New albums out today: Blonde Redhead – 23, CocoRosie – The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn, Grinderman (Nick Cave project) – Grinderman, Rosebuds – Night of the Furies and Bright Eyes – Cassadaga (Conor pictured below).

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My hair looks pretty hosed these days, but fortunately most girls still wanna bone me.

Travis Vogt Interviews Eugene Mirman

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Eugene and some meat on MySpace

Today on usounds, Travis Vogt asks Eugene Mirman a few questions about his involvement with Super Deluxe, time travel, martial arts and his plans for the future.

Travis: What is it that appeals to you about working in the Super Deluxe format?

Eugene: I like making short, weird videos that can have more of their own style, rather than trying to fit into a TV mold.

If you had the choice, would you travel back in time, or travel forward into the future? Why, and where?

Both sound so good. Probably into the future. Obviously, if I go back in time I can finally find out what happens to the time-line if I alter it. However, I think I may want to be in a flying car a little more. It would obviously suck if I found out that humanity destroyed itself in thirty years. It’d be a burden to return to our time and try to get people to stop some stupid thing to avoid the end of days.

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Elvis Perkins in Dearland – Live in Seattle, WA

| Shrie Bradford

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Photo jacked from Elvis’ MySpace

Tractor Tavern
Seattle, WA
March 30, 2007

The Tractor Tavern was the most appropriate host for the wistful Elvis Perkins and his backing band, Dearland. The grimy floors, dusty cowboy boots draped along the ceiling, multi-colored strings of light hung won ton across the ceiling and the bar’s propensity to serve only beer (and an excellent Texas beer at that – Shiner) and simple liquor drinks all set the mood for the bare bones country truth of Elvis Perkins.

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Another Wolf Band – Sea Wolf

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Hey assholes! I know there are a lot of ‘wolf’ bands out there right now, but how many other wolf bands have gills? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Sea Wolf is Alex Church from the band Irving. His 5-song EP Get To The River Before It Runs Too Low will be released May 8th on Dangerbird Records with a debut album to follow in September. Here’s a song from the album now!

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Loney, Dear Loney, Noir [Sub Pop]

| Lily Cutler

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Rating: 6.0

First you see one indie rocker from Sweden; let’s say it’s Jens Lekman. Then they just keep showing up and nobody takes notice until they become a threat to our American way of life. You know the ones: the Radio Dept., Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, I’m From Barcelona. They come to our country, steal our dreams of playing homemade synth pop, and charm our socks off with their damn triangles, hand clapping, and sing-along choruses. We are face to face with a Scandinavian coup. If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.

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I am John mp3

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