What else we were talking about

The news, video picks and short reviews melophobe posted in the days around August 8. They’re kept as they ran, so some of what they point to is long gone.

2009

56 posts

Wednesday, August 5

Video pick
Jay-Z Covers "No Sleep til Brooklyn"
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BOAT + New Century Schoolbook + Peacock & Labeau - 8/8, Backspace
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Casiokids - 8/11, Doug Fir Lounge
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Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek (Reflection Eternal) + Slum Village + Slaughterhouse + Raekwon + Supernatural + Pete Rock - 8/15, Roseland Theater
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Experimental Dental School + Wax Fingers + Swim Swam Swum + Mighty Tiger - 8/15, Doug Fir Lounge
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Nice Nice + Nudge + Gulls - 8/19, Holocene
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Flaming Lips + Built To Spill + Stardeath and White Dwarfs - 8/20, Edgefield
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Xavier Rudd - 8/20, Crystal Ballroom
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The Fruit Bats + Johnny & The Moon + Panty Lions - 8/22, Doug Fir Lounge
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The Dead Weather - 8/23, Roseland Theater
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Fleshtone + Guidance Counselor + Wampire + Grand Lake - 8/27, Holocene
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Ramona Falls - 8/29, Doug Fir Lounge
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Mos Def + Jay Electronica + Lilla D'Mone - 8/29, Roseland Theater
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Orgone - 8/31, Peter's Room
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Elvis Perkins In Dearland - 9/3, Doug Fir Lounge
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Kid Koala + Anomie Belle - 9/2, Doug Fir Lounge
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De la Soul + Animal Farm - 9/4, Roseland Theater
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Akron/Family - 9/8, Bagdad Theater & Pub
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Starfucker (Day and Night shows) - 9/4, Doug Fir Lounge
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Rena Jones + Helios + Evac - 9/13, Doug Fir Lounge
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Deer Tick - 9/15, Olympic Club Hotel & Theater
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MFNW! (Ah Holly Fam'ly, The Dirty Three, Explosins in the Sky, The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit, Girl Talk, Passion Pit, The Helio Sequence, more) - 9/17, All over Portland
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MFNW! (The Shaky Hands, What's Up?, Copy, Atole, We're From Japan, Japanther, Monotonix, Bad Brains, Micachu & the Shapes, Chairlift, Common Market, Sunny Day Real Estate, more) - 9/18, All over Portland
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MFNW! (Drug Rug, Titus Andronicus, Beach House, John Vanderslice, Langhorne Slim, The Builders and the Butchers, Loch Lomond, The Get Up Kids, Fucked Up, Pretty & Nice, more) - 9/19, All over Portland
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MFNW! (Modest Mouse, Love as Laughter, Mimicking Birds, more) - 9/20, All over Portland
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Modest Mouse - 9/21, Crystal Ballroom
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Modest Mouse - 9/22, Crystal Ballroom
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Grand Archives + The Most Serene Republic - 9/23, Doug Fir Lounge
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Modest Mouse - 9/23, Crystal Ballroom
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Mimicking Birds + The Beautiful Train wrecks - 9/26, White Eagle Saloon
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Loney Dear + Asobi Seksu + Anna Ternheim - 10/3, Doug Fir Lounge
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Datarock + Esser + Kav - 10/2, Holocene
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Mono + Maserati - 10/10, Doug Fir Lounge
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Sleepy Sun + Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound + This Blinding Light - 10/4, Doug Fir Lounge
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Grizzly Bear - 10/15, Crystal Ballroom
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Bob Mould + Spiral Stairs - 10/16, Doug Fir Lounge
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The Jesus Lizard - 10/22, Crystal Ballroom
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Le Loup + Nurses - 10/25, Doug Fir Lounge
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Dan Deacon + Nuclear Power Plants - 10/23, Holocene
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Airborne Toxic Event + The Henry Clay People + Red Cortez - 10/31, Roseland Theater
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Broadcast + Atlas Sound + The Selmanaires - 11/1, Doug Fir Lounge
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The Raveonettes - 11/7, Doug Fir Lounge
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The Black Crowes + Truth & Salvage Co. - 11/20, Roseland Theater

Thursday, August 6

Fifty-word review
Sonic Youth – The Eternal
Fifty-word review
Discovery – LP

Friday, August 7

News
Ticket Giveaway! Diane Birch in Austin, Aug. 9
If you haven’t fallen in love with Diane Birch yet, Sunday night’s show is your chance!

Saturday, August 8

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Fanfarlo - 9/14, Chop Suey
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The Flaming Lips + Special Guests - 8/21, Marymoor Park
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The Pretenders + Cat Power + Juliette Lewis - 8/27, Marymoor Park
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Flogging Molly - 9/17, Marymoor Park
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Fruit Bats + Moondoggies + Johnny and the Moon - 8/21 FREE!, Mural Ampitheater at Seattle Center
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The Maldives with Seattle Rock Orchestra and Children’s Choir - 9/17, Fremont Abbey Great Hall
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Bumbershoot!: Michael Franti & Spearhead + Metric + Old 97s + Elvis Perkins In Dearland + Dyme Def + Yeah Yeah Yeahs + MSTRKRFT + Raphael Saadiq + Modest Mouse + The Knux + David Dross + Nick Swardson and many many others 9/5 - 9/7, Seattle Center- Various Stages