Rumor is that Neumo's had its capacity cut significantly by the city recently. (The number I heard was a cut from 800 to 250 -- though that seems extremely excessive and I'm not sure I'm buying it.)
The reason? Word on the street is this may be because the city's trying to force the club out, so they can redevelop the land.
If anyone was at The Kills show this week, speak up. I heard there was a queue to get folks in to the band room because they could only allow so many folks in at a time.
Does anyone know if there's any validity to this? I'm hoping it's just a big, fat hoax.
So now a little bird told me that TWO mystery Sub Pop guests will be appearing at the Sunset show on Sunday night. The whole thing starts at 4 PM but it could go into next week considering a LONG AGO signed S-P group will be appearing with the other mystery group later on. I hope this weather keeps up because this is going to be CRAZY!
SIFF Cinema's United Artists Series continues this week, and the kind folks at SIFF are offering one last chance to win a pair of tickets. This time to the first James Bond flick, Dr. No, screening this Sunday.
Simply email contests@SIFF.net with "TIG SIFF tix Dr No" in the subject line (and your full name somewhere in the body of the mail) for your chance to win. (Email addresses will not be shared or sold.)
Sunday, May 18 Dr. No 2:00pm, 6:00pm Although thought of as the first, this was actually James Bond’s second screen appearance. In 1954, a live TV production of Casino Royale was broadcast on CBS’s Climax Mystery Theatre with Barry Nelson (?!) playing Bond and Peter Lorre as the villainous Le Chiffre. Almost exactly eight years later, Dr. No premiered and the name James Bond would forever be owned by Sean Connery. Ian Fleming’s spy with a license to kill matches wits with a diabolical scientist in Jamaica who’s bent on sabotaging American missiles. Directed by Terence Young. (1962, 110 min.) New 35mm print!
Minus the Bear’s EP They Make Beer Commercials Like This, originally released way back in 2004, is newly remastered, expanded, and re-releasing on label Suicide Squeeze. Added to the six songs is added track “Houston, We Have Uh-Oh.”
Not only can you buy this baby on a small shiny disc, but you can pick it up on colored vinyl (rainbow or grey and magenta!). Bonus: the 12” vinyl comes with a code for free digital downloading. And if you pre-order from the label now, they’ll throw in a poster to hang on your wall.
Clinic put on a great show for many reasons. They (usually) wear matching hospital garb on stage. They pound out frantic songs with hooks that grab your psyche with their trademark frantic, controlled vocals, cerebral lyrics, and menacing guitar/keyboard hooks. Imaginary Liz has even proclaimed they are her favorite Liverpudlian band.
The band is going to be at Neumo's this Friday, May 16th (with the dreamy Austin, TX-ites, critically acclaimed Shearwater) and Three Imaginary Girls is excited to have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to a couple of lucky imaginary readers.
And I'm not the only one! American Laundromat Records is releasing a Kim Deal tribute album on June 3 (though it appears it is already available digitally through American Laundromat's website and through iTunes). The album is titled Gigantic: A Tribute to Kim Deal. I personally might have chosen a reference to a non-Pixies Deal song for the title, esp. considering the album's about Deal's work outside of the Pixies, but whatevs.
Hmm, apparently they asked Tanya Donelly to write the liner notes instead of me. They must not know what a Kim Deal superfan I am. I'll let that slide.
Here's the tracklisting:
01. The She / WITCH HATS 02. Bragging Party / THE GERMAN ART STUDENTS 03. Cannonball / THE WHEELERS 04. Tipp City / TARA KING TH 05. Do You Love Me Now / MELISSA GIBBS 06. Fortunately Gone / JULIE PEEL 07. Off You / FRANCINE 08. Doe / RIZZO 09. I Just Want To Get Along / DESCARTES A KANT 10. Invisible Man / THE NUEVOS 11. Safari / THE DOUGLAS FIR 12. When I Was A Painter / LE TETSUO 13. Divine Hammer / THE MODIFIERS
Some of the songs are originally by The Breeders and others by Deal's less famous project The Amps. I've heard of exactly one of the bands who performs on this tribute, but still, since I already know I like the songs, I'll definitely get me a copy of the album. Anybody heard it yet, or know anything about the bands appearing on it?
I'm also excited for American Laundromat's upcoming Cure tribute album, which is set to be released early next year and will include Tanya Donelly with Dylan in the Movies, The Brunettes, The Submarines, Dean & Britta, The Wedding Present, Joy Zipper, The Rosebuds, Grand Duchy (Violet Clark & Black Francis), The Devics, Elk City, The Poems and others. That's a whole lotta bands I love on one album!
Bumbershoot just sent out some additional booking information, and as you can see in the headline, they've got a few more bands on the bill plus one cancellation.
Here's the scoop:
The additions: The All-American Rejects, Paramore, Band of Horses, The Black Keys, Sons & Daughters, and Estelle.
The subtraction: Ludacris has cancelled.
The full lineup is coming in July.
The box office is open! Three-day passes are on sale for $80 through August 15 (after that they'll be $100).
In case you need your memory jogged, here's the partial music lineup list: Beck / Stone Temple Pilots / The All-American Rejects / Lucinda Williams / Paramore / Neko Case / Band of Horses / The Black Keys / Ingrid Michaelson / Jakob Dylan / Del Tha Funky Homosapien / !!! / Mike Doughty / Xavier Rudd / Anti-Flag / Lee “Scratch” Perry / Saul Williams / Brother Ali / Joe Bonamassa / M. Ward / Man Man / The Walkmen / Kid Sister / Sons & Daughters / Asylum St. Spankers / Dan Deacon / Estelle / MIDIval PunditZ / Blitzen Trapper / Bedouin Soundclash / Scary Kids Scaring Kids / Tim Finn / Dale Watson / John Vanderslice / Final Fantasy / The Fall of Troy / Orgone / Forro in the Dark / Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses / Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby / Arthur & Yu / Darondo and Nino Moschella / Pacifika / Ian Moore and many more to be announced.
Know what the Seattle music scene has been missing...? The perfect 70s glam-rock band. At least, we were. Imaginary ladies and gentleman, I give you... DISCS OF FURY.
Discs of Fury, which features members of M. Bison and Bad Dream Good Breakfast, will annihilate your senses with their high soprano wails, blazing over-the-top arena rock guitar rifts, fancy costumes, and basically everything you could ever hope for in your favorite glam band. Their debut record is a two-act rock opera (obvs, what else could it be?) called The Chroncles of Lazer: Vol 1 and to celebrate its release, the band has an AMAZING event planned for tomorrow (Friday May 16th) at the Lo-Fi Performance Gallery (429 Eastlake).
From the band:
We wear costumes, Brandon from Sleepy Eyes of Death does our fog and lights, we have narration and lazers and crowd participation.
We Wrote the Book on Connectors is also playing their mustache-rock. And M. Bison is opening with our version of the second half of 'Abbey Road'.
The MySpace songs and videos look incredible, and I imagine it's 1000-fold better in real life. This video gives an inkling of a hint of how bombastic this show will be...
The Canadian indie pop group The Arcade Fire has signed on to score the new movie from the producer of Donnie Darko. The Box is based on the short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson and stars Cameron Diaz and is produced by Richard Kelly.
In case you were living without electricity or running water in 2001, Donnie Darko is a strangely awesome movie with a passionate cult following. The soundtrack threw the haunting Gary Jules cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" into the pop stratosphere.
However, soundtracks are one thing and scores another. A score is the background music which helps bring forward the desired mood of the viewer during a scene. Surely different than producing a song with a beginning, middle, and end. In producing a track the audio is the central experience; with scores, the music supports and contributes to the visual experience.
What other indie-popsters have scored movies? Have they done it well?
My Google searches came up empty. But I did find this little snippet example of Donnie Darko scoring. (It's a weird scene. The whole movie is like this.)
This been making the rounds on all of the Internetz since the weekend, but it is way too priceless not to share. I have seen it at least a dozen times and it still makes me giggle like a 12 year old boy who heard his first balls joke. Be careful if you're at work though. Bill-O uses some language that is only safe if you work at Fox News. Enjoy before this one is pulled down from YouTube like all the others:
Hip-hop doesn't get much better than grime/ragga Brit Dizzee Rascal, former Company Flow vet El-P and gritty LA rapper Busdriver. And....
YOU CAN WIN TICKETS TO SEE THEM next Monday night (May 19th) at Neumos!
Email us attig @ threeimaginarygirls.com with the subject line "MakeMeDizzee" before 12p on Friday, May 16th and you'll be entered to win.
{Psst.... don't forget to include your first and last name in the body of the email so we can tell who you are, mister burningcheesefartz@yahoo.com man}
And I'm not the only one! American Laundromat Records is releasing a Kim Deal tribute album on June 3 (though it appears it is already available digitally through American Laundromat's website and through iTunes). The album is titled Gigantic: A Tribute to Kim Deal. I personally might have chosen a reference to a non-Pixies Deal song for the title, esp. considering the album's about Deal's work outside of the Pixies, but whatevs. 
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