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Becks Song Reader
Friday, January 18, 2013 (8:00 PM - 2:00 AM) | 
Crocodile Cafe 2200 2nd Ave Seattle WA (Downtown)
The Crocodile Presents
Becks Song Reader
Featuring
Becks Song Reader
Featuring
Slow Bunny
True Spokes
Massy Ferguson
True Spokes
Massy Ferguson
Beck's Song Reader, featuring Slow Bunny, True Spokes, and Massy Ferguson. In the wake of Modern Guilt and The Information, Beck’s latest album comes in an almost-forgotten form—twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded. Complete with full-color, heyday-of- home-play-inspired art for each song and a lavishly produced hardcover carrying case (and, when necessary, ukelele notation), the Song Reader is an experiment in what an album can be at the end of 2012—an alternative that enlists the listener in the tone of every track, and that’s as visually absorbing as a dozen gatefold LPs put together.
Slow Bunny
“I started this wanting to be a frontman for a cool band,” Chase Evans says about the origins of his multi-genre, spoken word-inspired musical project Slow Bunny, “but I realized what we were doing was something bigger than that. I took a step back and watched my friends amaze me.” Evans, who once shared a stage with Pearl Dragon from Champagne Champagne (and other noteworthy scribes at the Fenix Underground) has now put out an album representing his vivid, visceral poetics. It presents dark, confessional material in joyful, playful compositions; and ecstasy-induced vignettes in softer, slower tempos, all juxtaposed dialectically with each other. Clockwork, the eight superbly recorded soundscapes formed from the once-homeless, Chai House, Bluebird Ice Cream, and Fenix Underground spoken word stalwart Evans and several long-time and inspired musical collaborators, is probably unlike any other underground rock album you’ll hear this year. It is as deep as it is musically complex, often unexpectedly ambitious, and always enjoyable. The Seattle-based avant-music five-piece features vocals and guitars from (Seattle music scene career picador) Kimo Muraki (Surrealized, recently ex-Fences), who co-wrote the music with Evans; additional guitars from Ari Joshua Zucker of lauded band Big High who also co-wrote the music; additional vocals from Tyler Willman (of beloved Green Apple Quickstep); with the rhythm section of drummer Steven Barci (Davy Knowles and the Back Door Slam) and bassist Jeremy Lightfoot (Satchel), who recorded Clockwork at his home studio (on transformer preamps that he pieced together himself and Pro Tools,) which will be mixed by Barrett Jones (Foo Fighters, Mike McCready, Star Anna).
True Spokes
Through a decade of fearless, seat-of-the-pants music-making, countless live performances, and a handful of beloved albums, the Seattle quintet has developed that rare, magnetic combination of radio-ready songcraft and transportive instrumental chops. Through their annual Summer Meltdown festival—held in the beautiful Cascade mountains 12 years running—they’ve cultivated a legion of die-hard fans thirsty for unique music uniquely performed. Theirs is a musical ethos that’s both timeless and totally of the moment.
After all that history, the moment demands a fresh start. Which is why they are the True Spokes, not Flowmotion, as the band was known for the first ten years of its life. Flowmotion is now the True Spokes. The name change coincides with the release of their brand-new, eponymous album, and the timing couldn’t be better.
After all that history, the moment demands a fresh start. Which is why they are the True Spokes, not Flowmotion, as the band was known for the first ten years of its life. Flowmotion is now the True Spokes. The name change coincides with the release of their brand-new, eponymous album, and the timing couldn’t be better.
Massy Ferguson
Massy Ferguson is a bar band in the best sense not a band relegated to bars because it will never rise higher, but a band that plays music perfectly suited to dark, crowded rooms in which there's at least a possibility of a beer glass smashing against a wall.
The songs, filled with barflies, broken hearts and doomed late-night romance, would sound pretty good anywhere, though. Singer-bassist Ethan Anderson says the sound is Americana that leans more toward rock than country, and that's a pretty good description. Think Drive-By Truckers or some combination of Son Volt and The Hold Steady. Think Springsteen's "Greetings From Asbury Park" or "Nebraska." Those are all influences, as is 1970s Southern rock and good-time classic rock bands like Thin Lizzy.
The songs, filled with barflies, broken hearts and doomed late-night romance, would sound pretty good anywhere, though. Singer-bassist Ethan Anderson says the sound is Americana that leans more toward rock than country, and that's a pretty good description. Think Drive-By Truckers or some combination of Son Volt and The Hold Steady. Think Springsteen's "Greetings From Asbury Park" or "Nebraska." Those are all influences, as is 1970s Southern rock and good-time classic rock bands like Thin Lizzy.
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Friday, January 18, 2013 (8:00 PM - 2:00 AM)
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