September 19, 2006
Aural Pleasures (9/19 - 9/25)
Now that there's a chill in the air, Seattlest has taken to closing our windows at night before curling up in a warm bed with some hot cocoa and earplugs. That's right, it's officially the fall tour season, and there's live music galore. Behold!
Tuesday 19th
>>> The Silverback at Fuel in Pioneer Square. No one's ever heard this band, because this show represents the first time The Silverback will bring their downtempo electronic stylings out in public.
9pm; $3 for guys, ladies free?
>>> Serena Maneesh at Neumo's. Combining distortion and a patient delivery, Serena Maneesh make music perfect for gray days. Come see the soundtrack to your fall and winter.
8pm doors; $10 advance. 21+
>>> Mute Math at The Showbox. Sometimes you just want to rock out at a show. This might be a good one for that.
7pm doors; $18. All ages
>>> Guy Davis at Jazz Alley. America's reigning master of acoustic blues. His latest album, Skunkmello, got a rare five-star review from jazz/blues mag of record Downbeat.
7:30pm; $20.50. Also on the 20th
Wednesday 20th
>>> DJ Shadow at The Showbox. He's been kicking it for ten years already. It's not new, but you know it's going to be good.
8pm; $30. 21+
>>> A Shoreline Dream at the Comet. "Symphonic shoegazey soundscapes"? That's stretching it a bit, but A Shoreline Dream are promoting the release of their debut full-length Avoiding The Consequences, out this week. For a chance to win a pair of tickets to this show, send an email here with subject line "A Shoreline Dream Seattle" and your full name in the body of the text.
9pm; $5
Thursday 21st
>>> Drive It Like You Stole It at The Funhouse. As aggressive as their name - big guitars and big female vocals. You're familar with this sound even if you don't recognize the name.
9:30pm, $5
>>> Stewart Goodyear at the Seattle Symphony. 26-years-young Goodyear takes a seat at the piano for "Glorious Gershwin," which means "Rhapsody in Blue," natch, but also his Cuban Overture.
7:30pm; $21-$74; Benaroya Hall. Additional performances 22nd-24th.
Friday 22nd
>>> Medeski, Martin and Wood at The Moore. We're usually a sucker for anything labeled avant-garde, but to date we have not been able to figure out the appeal of MMW, and we're not dropping the $25 this week to try again.
7pm, $25.50
>>> Big Digits, Cancer Rising, Tennis Pro and The Saturday Knights at the High Dive. The last time Big Digits and Cancer Rising shared a venue - the infamous rap battle of 2005 - Seattlest aged by one year, fearful as we were of the tensions in the crowd, considering the long-standing feud between these rival rap groups; luckily, however, there were no sideways pointed glocks, nor were said glocks popped till they all dropped.
Silvie continues to insist the show starts at 8pm, while the High Dive calendar says 9:30pm; the price, whatever it may be ($6), is obviously quite steep insomuch as it involves braving the meathead convention that is Fremont on Friday nights. As of this writing, the show has not yet sold out.
Saturday 23rd
>>> Thee Emergency at thee Vera. Thee Emergency are a deservedly hot local band right now and this show will be packed.
7pm, $6
>>> Kim Ruehl & Betamax with Billie Burke Estate, and Swaybacks at Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater. Seattlest's own singer/songwriter Kim Ruehl rocking out with her band, et al. It's an early show, so start your night off right.
6pm; $5.
Sunday 24th
>>> Tracy Grammer at Tractor Tavern. A Portland folkie AND a talented multi-instrumentalist, Tracy is out promoting her latest album Seven is the Number.
8pm; $12.
Monday 25th
>>> Starsailor may be just one of the many British, single-worded, Coldplay-lite rip-off bands, but next Monday you've got two chances to see them live. First at a lunch hour (12:15pm) instore performance at the downtown Borders (1501 4th Ave). Ooookay.
And then that same night at the Croc with Peter Walker. You can also enter to win a pair of tix to this show by sending an email here with subject line "Starsailor Tickets Seattle" and your full name in the body of the text.
8pm doors; $13adv/$15dos
Photo of Scratch Acid at the Showbox for their last-ever show care of Michael Alan Goldberg.
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in something of a high-school nostalgia show (they were regionally known in the early 90's), i'm excited to see the cherry poppin' daddies on saturday. they may not have kept themselves as relevant as mission of burma (speaking of earplugs; damn, that was a great show), but it'll be fun.
as for MMW, i don't think they're as avant-garde as other jazz artists out there, but i'm always impressed by their attempts to incorporate elements of other styles while maintaining their own core sound.
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Is Starsailor, which formed six years ago, a Coldplay rip-off band? As someone who enjoys the former but not the latter, I sure don't think so. Hopefully folks will ignore the pigeonholing and check the band out for themselves next week at the Crocodile.
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coldplay did form before starsailor, albeit not by much. travis was definitely around before coldplay. timing aside, rip-off may be unduly harsh if you're a fan of one but not the other, but the musical comparison is definitely a fair one.
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Sure, but what's in the entry isn't a musical comparison, it's a dismissal -- and one that comes off as pretty ill-informed, given that it includes Muse.
I'm not sure who Muse remind me of, but it's definitely not Coldplay. Maybe Faith No More, but defunkified, and if Jeff Buckley had been their lead singer? Hmm, I dunno.