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Category Archives: Bands You Should Know
Songs from Boston, for Boston
I spent the first twenty-five years of my life in Boston. I don’t have a lot to add to the ocean of ink and pixels that have already been spilled on the subject of the craziness that’s been going on … Continue reading
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New Records Coming from Corespondents and Gems!
So far this year has been a slow one for me, musically speaking; I haven’t really heard much that’s grabbed me and gotten me excited. Something tells me that’s all about to change, though, as two of my favorite groups … Continue reading
Posted in Bands You Should Know, Check Out This Song, Community, Live Music, Recorded Music
Tagged corespondents, gems
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Rick Bass and Stellarondo
Back in April I wrote about Rick Bass and Stellarondo’s ambitious musical/literary project: an album of scored stories, for which they were soliciting Kickstarter donations at the time. Well the Kickstarter was a success, and the album is out, and … Continue reading
Album Review: Loud Springs – Trinity Blast Suite
Loud Springs – Trinity Blast Suite (2012, self-released) Loud Springs is the new project from Dean Wells, who spent much of the last decade writing, recording and eventually performing as the Capstan Shafts. Wells is a lo fi savant, channeling … Continue reading
Old Friends with New Names
Ball of Wax‘s connections to Mark Johnson and Michael Sanchez – of Amateur Radio Operator and The Way It Is, respectively – run deep, going back to our first couple volumes (ARO made their debut on Volume 1, The Way … Continue reading
Album Review: Meursault – Something for the Weakened
Meaursault – Something for the Weakened (2012, Song, By Toad Records) Edinburgh’s Meursault have been gaining acclaim and attention across the UK and Europe over the past few years, most notably for 2010’s outstanding All Creatures Will Make Merry. A … Continue reading
Snowman Plan Release Minerals Saturday
It’s been far too long since you’ve heard the cerebrally strange sounds of Snowman Plan on a volume of Ball of Wax (go all the way back to the instrumental Volume 8 and dig “Your Toad Roots”), but then, they’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged black lodge, IS, levator, snowman plan
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Brite Lines Enter the Workshop
As Columbia City turns into the Lower East Side of Seattle, (with I guess Tacoma serving as our Brooklyn), the scene at Columbia City Theater gets more and more compelling. That’s where I found Brite Lines singer Zach Gore– enthusiastic … Continue reading
A Good Year for Local Instrumental Vinyl: New Releases from Joy Wants Eternity and Scriptures
If you know me just through Ball of Wax, you might not realize that I’m a pretty big fan/supporter of instrumental rock music (sometimes referred to with the blanket genre term “post-rock”). I play in a droney instrumental band myself, … Continue reading
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Tagged instrumental rock, joy wants eternity, post-rock, scriptures, vinyl
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God’s Favorite Beefcake – Witches Bones ‘n’ Whale Skin
We’re having a hard time in Seattle right now. Yesterday was a brutal, tragic day and we lost some wonderful people. I didn’t know Drew and Joe very well, but I played a show with them at the magical Cafe … Continue reading
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