Monthly Archives: January 2014

Double Your Love at the Ball of Wax 35 Release Show! 2/14 at Lo Fi

Ball of Wax and Mamma’s Cave present In Love with Love: A Night of Songs of and by Love Ball of Wax Volume 35 Release Celebration and tribute to the band Love Lo Fi Performance Gallery, 429 Eastlake Ave. E. … Continue reading

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Ball of Wax 35 Songs: Quichenight – “Fjord Tortoise”

Ball of Wax newcomers Quichenight describe their music as “lo-fi, high-brow, easy-listening music for nerds.” Their contribution to volume 35, “Fjord Tortoise,” is top-shelf bedroom pop that reminds me of tons of great bands – from Pavement at their most accessible … Continue reading

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Ball of Wax 35 Songs: The Ex-Optimists – “Let’s Go to Sleep and Dream”

Former Seattleite and now apparent founding father of College Station, Texas’s rock and roll scene Kelly Minnis (also, in full disclosure, first drummer in my band The Luna Moth and onetime sometime hitter of skins in my other band The … Continue reading

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Ball of Wax 35 Songs: Sam Russell – “The Arena”

[It’s time once again to share with you, track by track, the songs from the upcoming volume of Ball of Wax. BoW 35 is devoted to the love song, and will be released Friday, February 14th at Lo Fi. Join … Continue reading

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