Music: Android Amaker, Ace Reporter & Pillar Point

Posted on 04/16/2014 by Dagmar

New music this week includes awesome tunes from Android Amaker, Ace Reporter and Pillar Point. When I heard each one of these songs I had one of those omg freak out moments.

Android Amaker, a collaboration including Seattle musicians Brent Amaker (Brent Amaker and the Rodeo), Vox Mod and P Smoov (Mad Rad, Fresh Espresso), gives us “I’m the One,” a sharp and slinky tune if there ever was one. They call it music “for fans of robots and westerns,” that’s fair! Mythos behind the band has stories of space bandits and alien overlords, with things we can all relate to such as the lyrics, “I can see you’ve got a problem, we can have that fixed by tomorrow.”

Android Amaker – photo by Frank Correa
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Chicago’s Ace Reporter released “Trouble,” a track off their debut, Yearling, which sounds as if it will be a hot hot hot record. They’re touring parts of the East Coast, and I so wish they were headed to Seattle. They’re melodic and moving. You can also listen to “Saints & Angels” below. Look for and extended version of Yearling, Yearling XL available on April 22nd!

Ace Reporter – photo by Chris Semel
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I’ve made no secret that I am massively in love with Pillar Point, and you can see why when he plays Sasquatch Festival, Neumos, and heads out on a May tour. I got to see Pillar Point at Neumos recently and can recommend that you see him. The album is perfect.

Pillar Point

Photos: Volbeat with Trivium and Digital Summer @ The Paramount

Posted on 04/15/2014 by BBS

If you were looking for a night of hard-hitting head-banging Metal, the Paramount was the place to be. Volbeat led a great lineup of bands with Digital Summer and Trivium easily holding their own. All three bands sounded terrific and they each knew how to work the crowd. Any one of these bands could headline their own show.

I’ve seen Volbeat three times in the past few years and I look forward to them every time they come to Seattle. Volbeat has such a diverse collection of music while never abandoning their core fans. You can hear rockabilly, thrash, and alt-country rock all in the same concert and you alway want more. They are such a tight band and they are real showmen. They seem like they really appreciate their fans and I know their fans appreciate them. I should know because I’ve been a fan since I first saw them at Gigantour with Megadeth and Motorhead.

This is the part where I would normally highlight their latest record. This time, I say check them all out because they are all great.

Volbeat

Trivium

Digital Summer

Photographer: John Rudolph

Show Preview: Chromeo @ Showbox at the Market, Wed. 4/16

Posted on 04/15/2014 by Dagmar

Canadian duo Chromeo return to Seattle on Wednesday, April 16th to headline Showbox at the Market. Band members Dave 1 and P-Thugg will release their fourth album, White Women, on May 12th, so I’d expect some brand new tunes for this show – the first song off White Women, “Jealous (I Ain’t With It)” sounds very, very promising. It’s been ten years since Chromeo’s founding and debut, and they’ve remained an awesome presence in music. Also they’re the first band I think of when someone says, hey, are any musicians professors? (Dave 1, aka, David Macklovitch, has taught at Barnard College). Wear some good dancing shoes, and enjoy the synth/electronic/disco romp that is Chromeo.

Chromeo – photo by Tim Saccenti

Photos, Interview & Show Review: LEATHERMOMMY & Hedersleben (SF), Sat. 4/12

Posted on 04/13/2014 by BBS

LEATHERMOMMY & Hedersleben @ Machine House Brewery, 4/12/14
by Marz

I was in a mood to venture off the hill on Saturday evening, and so Jim and Eric of Display, Male/Female picked me up in their van in order to catch the last two bands of this gathering, one being Hedersleben, a Krautrock outfit on a West Coast tour from San Francisco.

In passing I met Jason Willer, drummer of Hedersleben a neo-prog band from San Francisco consisting of Nicky Garratt, Jason Willer, Kephera Moon, and Bryce Shelton. I asked him to tell me more about the band’s drive to play.

Jason Willer: I guess we take our influence from the progressive and Krautrock traditions of the early ’70s. Our guitarist, Nicky Garratt was influenced by all that stuff growing up, and he just now pulled this together to kind of live out his dreams in a way. He was one of the founding members of the band the U.K. SUBS in 1976. I was also in the U.K. SUBS with him for 5 years from 2001-2006. Now he is playing the music of his youth, which is his passion.

It’s been from punk to prog for me. For him. . . well he was playing in prog bands in 1970 already. Way before punk. So he went from prog to punk back to prog. . .haha.

What are you up to back in San Francisco?

JW: We are the back up band for Nik Turner and Brainticket.

I also had a chance to have a quick chat with Nicky Garrat, who stated:

We are look forward to playing some planetariums and museums in the future. We also plan on coming back to Seattle in August with Nik Turner.

I was also super curious about the show in general. The name LEATHERMOMMY made my imagination go all over the place. Then I was even more intrigued to find out that this project includes Emily Pothast, David Golighty, Garret Moore, and Jon Carr (members of Midday Veil and Brainfruit).

At the show David Golightly of LEATHERMOMMY, with mischievous nervous overtones, described excitedly the band’s main focal point.

So what is LEATHERMOMMY all about?

David Golightly: It’s about punishment of a disciplinary mother figure on the hubristic child of civilization. It’s like when you are being cocky.

When’s your next show?

DG: There’s nothing booked yet but we will play again, and as the need arises. . .Leathermommy will be there.

During LM’s set frontwoman Emily Pothast served the crowd some discipline, punishment, domination, and a power drill. Later she added that the drill used on set was found on the street earlier that day.

Machine House Brewery left the impression of a cool low lit brick warehouse on Airport Way in Georgetown in the midst of a haunting mystery. Please go there if you want to listen to some good music, and drink beer. It’s like a real hidden chill haven.

LEATHERMOMMY

Show Preview: Temples @ Neumos, Wed. 4/9

Posted on 04/08/2014 by Dagmar

Temples, a quartet from Kettering, England, appears at Neumos tomorrow night – that’s Wednesday, April 9th. The self-described psychedelic band’s Seattle date will be just their second show of the tour, and I think they’ll be very welcome in North America. They just released their debut, the very cool Sun Structures, in February. It is indeed psychedelic, with the guitar and vocals you would want in such music for sure. My favorite track so far is “The Golden Throne.” Great stuff.

Temples

You must be over 21 – for more details on the show head to Neumos’ event page.

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