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MUSIC MOVIE: Danielson: A Family Movie follows musician/multi-media artist Daniel Smith as he endeavors to create art with his siblings and friends while also balancing his love for Jesus. Including appearances by Sufjan Stevens, Rick Moody, Daniel Johnston, and Steve Albini, tonight’s the documentary’s Seattle premiere.

Danielson took the stage around 11:30. The crowd steadily filed in from their twenty-minute smoke breaks. Ben Gibbard of Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie fame showed up following the opening band.

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Currently enjoying premium real estate in the coveted "Best New Music" space on Pitchfork, Danielson (aka Daniel Smith) allegedly rocks - in italics - "with blaring trumpets signaling snares to exact their force beneath sweeping multitracked vocal choruses that simply won't stop crescendoing." The same article also claims that Sufjan Stevens serves as Danielson's "acolyte," which conjures up all kinds of unrelated and unfortunate images.