| 3.01.09 | Donavan Frankenreiter w/ Gary Jules @ Pac Concert Hall |
| 3.04.09 | Donavon Frankenreiter w/ Gary Jules @ Neumos |
| 3.06.09 | The Blakes @ Chop Suey |
| 3.06.09 | Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band w/ Say Hi, Visqueen @ Neumos |
| 3.06.09 | The Lonely Forest @ The Brown Lantern W/The 88 21+ |
| 3.07.09 | The Lonely Forest @ The Nightlight w/ The Blakes 21+ |
| 3.08.09 | The Von Bondies w/ The Lonely Forest & Nico Vega @ Neumos |
| 3.11.09 | Disney Cover Night @ Chop Suey |
| 3.13.09 | The Lonely Forest @ The Empyrean w/ The Globes & Cyrus Fell Down |
| 3.14.09 | The Lonely Forest @ Whitworth University w/ The Globes |
| 3.14.09 | Blue Scholars w/ Common Market & Truckasaurus @ Neumos |
| 3.21.09 | We Wrote the Book on Connectors w/ Team Gina @ The High Dive |
| 3.27.09 | Jaguar Love @ Wonder Ballroom w/ OK GO! |
| 3.27.09 | The Builders and The Butchers w/ Kay kay and his weathered Underground @ The CROCODILE |
| 3.28.09 | Jaguar Love @ Chop Suey w/ OK GO! ALL AGES |
| 3.28.09 | U.S.E @ The Crocodile |
| 4.03.09 | Noah Gundersen & The Courage @ The High Dive w/ Jordan Lake Band 21+ EARLY SHOW |
| 4.10.09 | Noah Gundersen @ Three Trees w/ Daniel Adams |
| 4.10.09 | Viva Voce @ Chop Suey |
| 4.11.09 | The Thermals @ Neumos |
| 4.12.09 | The Lonely Forest Co-Hosting Y&R on 1077 The End w/ Megan! |
| 4.12.09 | The Ting Tings @ The Crocodile |
| 4.15.09 | The Cave Singers @ The Crocodile |
| 4.17.09 | Black Kids w/ Mates of State @ Neumos |
| 5.08.09 | Damien Jurado @ the Crocodile w/ Laura Gibson |
| 5.13.09 | Mae w/ Barcelona @ Neumos |
| 5.16.09 | Noah Gundersen & The Courage @ Common Ground w/ Corbin Watkins ALL AGES |
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Some shows! -updated 03.01.09
Viva Voce News!
VIVA VOCE TO RELEASE ROSE CITY ON MAY 26TH ON BARSUK RECORDS
TOUR DATES AND SXSW SET IN ADVANCE OF THE RELEASE
Since the 2006 release of their Barsuk debut Get Yr Blood Sucked out, Portland, OR duo Viva Voce toured non-stop for nearly 2 years, both as headliners and supporting fellow Portlanders The Shins in the US and abroad.
Band founders Kevin and Anita Robinson took an entire year off from touring (unheard of for them) to finish their hand-built backyard home studio and gig around town with country rock band Blue Giant, and have since become something of a hub in the Portland music scene:
Kevin has spent time producing and recording bands like Tu Fawning and Thao with The Get Down Stay Down. Anita sang harmonies on The Shins' Wincing the Night Away album, and performed with them on SNL and on tour. With Blue Giant, Kevin and Anita made it a habit to incorporate a broad cast of Portland musicians to their live ensemble - and now the Viva Voce band itself has grown, as Kevin and Anita have welcomed Corrina Repp and Evan Railton to the official line-up.
Now Viva Voce are back with Rose City, an album they wrote, arranged, and recorded themselves all in one furious month - choosing not to deliberate over every little thing but living purely in the moment musically and lyrically. Immersing themselves in sonic experimentation, it was truly spontaneous and cathartic. The result is an angular, immediate record that pulses with the palpable urgency of a band yearning for a return to the vagabond life of the working, touring musician – a mode in which Viva Voce is truly at home.
Track listing:
1. Devotion
2. Die A Little
3. Octavio
4. Midnight Sun
5. Red Letter Day
6. Good As Gold
7. Rose City
8. Tornado Alley
9. Flora
10. The Slow Fade
Viva Voce on tour:
March:
12 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop
13 Visalia, CA Cellar Door
14 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theatre
15 Tucson, AZ Plush
16 Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room
18 Austin, TX SXSW
19 Austin, TX SXSW
20 Austin, TX SXSW
22 Denver, CO Hi-Dive
24 Boise, ID Neurolux
28 Portland, OR Aladdin Theatre
April:
10 Seattle, WA Chop Suey
11 Salem, OR Elsinore Theatre
TOUR DATES AND SXSW SET IN ADVANCE OF THE RELEASE
Since the 2006 release of their Barsuk debut Get Yr Blood Sucked out, Portland, OR duo Viva Voce toured non-stop for nearly 2 years, both as headliners and supporting fellow Portlanders The Shins in the US and abroad.
Band founders Kevin and Anita Robinson took an entire year off from touring (unheard of for them) to finish their hand-built backyard home studio and gig around town with country rock band Blue Giant, and have since become something of a hub in the Portland music scene:
Kevin has spent time producing and recording bands like Tu Fawning and Thao with The Get Down Stay Down. Anita sang harmonies on The Shins' Wincing the Night Away album, and performed with them on SNL and on tour. With Blue Giant, Kevin and Anita made it a habit to incorporate a broad cast of Portland musicians to their live ensemble - and now the Viva Voce band itself has grown, as Kevin and Anita have welcomed Corrina Repp and Evan Railton to the official line-up.
Now Viva Voce are back with Rose City, an album they wrote, arranged, and recorded themselves all in one furious month - choosing not to deliberate over every little thing but living purely in the moment musically and lyrically. Immersing themselves in sonic experimentation, it was truly spontaneous and cathartic. The result is an angular, immediate record that pulses with the palpable urgency of a band yearning for a return to the vagabond life of the working, touring musician – a mode in which Viva Voce is truly at home.
Track listing:
1. Devotion
2. Die A Little
3. Octavio
4. Midnight Sun
5. Red Letter Day
6. Good As Gold
7. Rose City
8. Tornado Alley
9. Flora
10. The Slow Fade
Viva Voce on tour:
March:
12 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop
13 Visalia, CA Cellar Door
14 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theatre
15 Tucson, AZ Plush
16 Phoenix, AZ Rhythm Room
18 Austin, TX SXSW
19 Austin, TX SXSW
20 Austin, TX SXSW
22 Denver, CO Hi-Dive
24 Boise, ID Neurolux
28 Portland, OR Aladdin Theatre
April:
10 Seattle, WA Chop Suey
11 Salem, OR Elsinore Theatre
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Sasquatch Music Festival!
We just saw the line-up for the Sasquatch Music Festival and are SO excited to see so many of our friends on the bill!
In RED are our friends who are playing who we are SO stoked to see and in BLUE are other great bands we are also stoked about seeing!
Saturday, May 23th
Kings of Leon / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / The Decemberists / Animal Collective / Bon Iver / Devotchka / M. Ward / Doves / Sun Kil Moon / The Gaslight Anthem / King Khan & The Shrines / Ra Ra Riot / Shearwater / Passion Pit / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band / Vince Mira / Blind Pilot / Owl City / Arthur & Yu / Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele / Death Vessel / Hockey / James Pants / Todd Barry / Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! / People's Republic of Komedy
Sunday, May 24th
Jane's Addiction / Nine Inch Nails / TV On The Radio / Peter Bjorn and John / of Montreal / The Avett Brothers / Calexico / M83 / The Airborne Toxic Event / The Walkmen / The Wrens / St. Vincent / The Dodos / John Vanderslice / The Submarines / Viva Voce / The Builders And The Butchers / AA Bondy / Fences / Point Juncture, WA / Jon Benjamin / Zach Galifianakis / Deadmau5 / Natalie Portman's Shaved Head / People's Republic of Komedy
Monday, May 25th
Ben Harper and Relentless7 / Erykah Badu / Silversun Pickups / Fleet Foxes / Gogol Bordello / Santigold / Grizzly Bear / Explosions In The Sky / Girl Talk / Blitzen Trapper / The Knux / Monotonix / Bishop Allen / Black Moth Super Rainbow / Beach House / Mugison / The Dutchess And The Duke / School Of Seven Bells / Horse Feathers / The Pica Beats / Loch Lomond / BLK JKS / Demetri Martin / God's Pottery / Chromeo / Tobacco / People's Republic of Komedy
In RED are our friends who are playing who we are SO stoked to see and in BLUE are other great bands we are also stoked about seeing!
Saturday, May 23th
Kings of Leon / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / The Decemberists / Animal Collective / Bon Iver / Devotchka / M. Ward / Doves / Sun Kil Moon / The Gaslight Anthem / King Khan & The Shrines / Ra Ra Riot / Shearwater / Passion Pit / Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band / Vince Mira / Blind Pilot / Owl City / Arthur & Yu / Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele / Death Vessel / Hockey / James Pants / Todd Barry / Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! / People's Republic of Komedy
Sunday, May 24th
Jane's Addiction / Nine Inch Nails / TV On The Radio / Peter Bjorn and John / of Montreal / The Avett Brothers / Calexico / M83 / The Airborne Toxic Event / The Walkmen / The Wrens / St. Vincent / The Dodos / John Vanderslice / The Submarines / Viva Voce / The Builders And The Butchers / AA Bondy / Fences / Point Juncture, WA / Jon Benjamin / Zach Galifianakis / Deadmau5 / Natalie Portman's Shaved Head / People's Republic of Komedy
Monday, May 25th
Ben Harper and Relentless7 / Erykah Badu / Silversun Pickups / Fleet Foxes / Gogol Bordello / Santigold / Grizzly Bear / Explosions In The Sky / Girl Talk / Blitzen Trapper / The Knux / Monotonix / Bishop Allen / Black Moth Super Rainbow / Beach House / Mugison / The Dutchess And The Duke / School Of Seven Bells / Horse Feathers / The Pica Beats / Loch Lomond / BLK JKS / Demetri Martin / God's Pottery / Chromeo / Tobacco / People's Republic of Komedy
Monday, January 12, 2009
Fleet Foxes on SNL January 17th!
I remember in 2005 my friend Bryn sitting in my car with me outside of Walgreens, holding his iPod and telling me "You've got to hear this band..." I listened to a few songs and was hooked.
Days later Bryn invited me to go see the band at The Seattle Drum School, he says he'll meet me there. So I go to the show, pretty stoked to see the band. I get there... and Bryn is on stage tuning his bass with the band. Tricky son of a gun.
The band was the Fleet Foxes. The show was awesome, I was floored by Robin's voice (he was 18 or 19 at the time) and his song writing skills. I knew they were something special but so often great bands get torn to shreds by the industry before they get the chance to break out.
I am happy to say the Fleet Foxes were able to survive the fire swamp and I'll be watching them this Saturday on SNL! http://www.nme.com/news/fleet-foxes/42014
xo.
NWB -Jacquee
Days later Bryn invited me to go see the band at The Seattle Drum School, he says he'll meet me there. So I go to the show, pretty stoked to see the band. I get there... and Bryn is on stage tuning his bass with the band. Tricky son of a gun.
The band was the Fleet Foxes. The show was awesome, I was floored by Robin's voice (he was 18 or 19 at the time) and his song writing skills. I knew they were something special but so often great bands get torn to shreds by the industry before they get the chance to break out.
I am happy to say the Fleet Foxes were able to survive the fire swamp and I'll be watching them this Saturday on SNL! http://www.nme.com/news/fleet-foxes/42014
xo.
NWB -Jacquee
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
SATURDAY @ the Rogue Hero in Bellingham!
I would love it if you would come to my first show of 2009 at the Rogue Hero in Bellingham. It is with my awesome and talented turntablist friend, Jonny AKA Boy Eats Drum Machine. He's from portland and it is always a treat to have him up this way! Also playing is a couple bellingham gems! Opening the show at 10pm on SATURDAY JAN 3RD will be Citizen Escape and headlining will be my favourite Bellingham rock couple and yours; No-Fi Soul Rebellion!
So please come, say hi to me and enjoy the show!
Saturday, January 3rd 2009
No-Fi Soul Rebellion
Boy Eats Drum Machine
Citizen Escape
@ The Rogue Hero
$4, 10pm, 21+
Bellingham WA
See you there!!
XO
Jacquee
So please come, say hi to me and enjoy the show!
Saturday, January 3rd 2009
No-Fi Soul Rebellion
Boy Eats Drum Machine
Citizen Escape
@ The Rogue Hero
$4, 10pm, 21+
Bellingham WA
See you there!!
XO
Jacquee
Monday, December 22, 2008
My dog Lyuda and nephew doggie playing in the snow!
It looks like they're fighting but they're really having lots of fun! This is the first time they've ever played together since living together (3 1/2 months). It went really well! They had such fun. :-)
*Lyuda has to have a muzzle on because when I rescued him he was not socialized. We're working on that. And Lyuda is still getting used to his muzzle.*
*Lyuda has to have a muzzle on because when I rescued him he was not socialized. We're working on that. And Lyuda is still getting used to his muzzle.*
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Fleet Foxes Review 12.20.08
Fleet Foxes Review 12.20.08
The buzz around the Seattle-based Fleet Foxes is unmistakable. Their album was described as "one of the most critically-acclaimed albums of 2008" by Conan O'Brien as he introduced them for their appearance on his show just a few days ago. Rightly so. Favorable reviews are all over the net, everyone from Rolling Stone to NME to Pitchfork.
When an album is preceded so by its reputation, there's a risk of letting your perceptions of the album be colored by the hype, and of subconsciously making yourself like it because you think you should. Not so with Fleet Foxes. The music is so purely infectious that all of your expectations and ulterior motives melt away. Much like the escapist fantasy found in a children's storybook, you are led into a world of vivid folk pop music where all of your preconceived notions are put on hold.
The album starts out with a brief a capella piece which then rushes into the folk-tinged acoustic rhythm guitar that forms the basis for the Fleet Foxes style. It's joined by the kind of sparkling clean, vintage country-inspired electric guitar riffs that Fender amps are built for. Vocalist Robin Pecknold's voice soars up to a crystal-clear falsetto and back down again with ease, backed by a Pet Sounds-style harmony. True to the indie-pop spirit, the voices are absolutely soaked with reverb.
Lyrics are cryptic and vague... and hauntingly beautiful. In the mournful acoustic ballad "Oliver James", Pecknold sings, "On the kitchen table that your grandfather did make/ You in your delicate way will slowly clean his face/ And you will remember when you rehearsed the actions of/ An innocent and anxious mother full of anxious love". Heartwrenching.
There's a distinct feeling of antiquity that runs through the entire album. If you allow yourself to forget for a moment that this music draws mainly from Twentieth Century musical styles, you can almost place it right into the Renaissance. Of course this requires a little bit of cognitive dissonance, but perhaps that's what Fleet Foxes intended: to create an album so timeless and classic in style that it doesn't neatly fit into any time period, and requires a little bit of mental squashing and stretching to categorize it.
Rating: 4 out of 4
Reviewed by: Brenton William Brookings
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