Local favorites TacocaT will playing with Portland, OR tour mates Forever at Watertown Cafe this Thursday. This is one of Watertown's first of many shows planned in the future. If you check they're website you can link straight to Watertown's Facebook and be there friend over there as well as in person. Connecticut 4 will also be playing, the show is 21+, but not all Watertown shows in the future will be.

Here is a video of Forever in LA.

Forever - Untitled Live in LA 3/15/09 from Peter Lowe on Vimeo.

Three cheers for new venues!

TacocaT
Forever
Connecticut 4

9pm, 21+
Thursday July 23rd
Watertown Cafe
550 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122
(between jefferson and cherry)

Labels: connecticut 4, forever, Highfives and Handshakes Records, tacocat

EXPLODE INTO COLORS
GUN OUTFIT
BRAIN FRUIT
BROKEN ENGLISH
AS/SS

July 25th, Black Lodge
9pm $6 All Ages

Art By CM RUIZ

Labels: AS/SS, Brain Fruit, C.M. Ruiz, Explode Into Colors, Flexions, Gun Outfit, Highfives and Handshakes Records

In the wake of their death in the living room under my office, Braidstorm continue to eerily echo the halls of our home. Maybe its the drums that have sat their since that fateful day a month or two ago, or maybe somebody else is listening to ESG next door at full volume, no one can say for sure. Braidstorm will have a video for their #1 hit Grand Fur in the Backyard Games DVD compilation coming out this fall on Highfives and Handshakes. Most or all of the videos are by the illustrious R. Wolfe and will include music from Seahouse, Masters and Johnson, Abe Vigoda, Tinsel, Last Slice of Butter and more.

This video for the song Building Blocks which was available on their assumed to be sold out cassette tape appears to made from band hangout clips and use of the mozilla download helper which can pull streaming internet video onto your hard drive (brilliant! use it!). I think I might be guest push-upping in there somewhere, can't say for sure. See if you can pick out any old friends picking up the change and throwing it to there homies!



Braidstorm "Building Blocks"

RIP

Highfives and Handshakes is proud to offer yet another evening of local auditory excellence. Featuring PPM (Abe Vigoda, Mika Miko) rockers Gun Outfit hailing from Olympia, WA. They're Dinosaur Jr. rock sound touched with bluesy deadpan alt-rock, drooled over recently by Seattle's Only Newspaper. Explode Into Colors, playing in Seattle for their second time only, are prepared to tear the house down with dubbed out ESG derived sound. Driving, creative rhythyms produced by Lisa Schonberg's (Kickball, The Strangers) intense drumming, supplemented by Heather Treadway's percussion and keyboard. Claudia Meza accepts baritone guitar duties growling and shreaking through layers of reverb and delay, laying heavy baritone lines.

Supporting this evening of out of towners are local synth-proggers Brain Fruit, dub-tempo bossanova delights Broken English, featuring members of Flexions, and Portland's wierd-ass noise-kickers AS/SS who may be backed up by the Explode Into Colors rhythym section.

Gun Outfit
Explode Into Colors
Brain Fruit
Broken English (ft. members of Flexions)
AS/SS

Black Lodge (Eastlake & Republican)
July 25th, 9PM
$6 at the door

Labels: AS/SS, Brain Fruit, Broken English, Explode Into Colors, Flexions, Gun Outfit, Highfives and Handshakes Records

I'm pretty certain that anything dripping with gooey reverb these days will catch my loving ear. Given space in the chambers of echo and reverberation the tracks from Universal Studios Florida (USF) new release Ocean Sunbirds glow in the softly setting sun over the sea, boats rolling in the most distant plane burning up against vibrant blue-blocked orange and yellow clouds. The rhythym and keys, tripping and glitching in places, pointy synths run quick lines all the while a driving beat holds the swelling arpegiating drones in place.

This Seattle duo requires high volume or headphones and comes highly recomended for summer jamming purposes which, of course, leads this record to being H+H approved. Originally a bedroom project, the two were coaxed out of their homes and into my garage for their first show earlier this year. Receiving much local love, worldwide bloggage, and selling out of the first self titled EP from Little Fury Things shortly after that.


In this new track from USF's new album, Sun Glyphed Comanche Kissed, reminiscent of a slow motion flight over seas and jungles, you can hear the ocean slapping, gurlging, and surging underneath. Sparkling overtones and a light rhythym drops dropping close to the 2 minute mark, this is one of favorites from the record. Stream it out!



The new album, Ocean Sunbirds, is available on CD from Little Fury Things and on Cassette on Animal Image Search. Which just so happens to be an almost equally impossible name to search for as Universal Studios Florida, so enjoy this link.

Live pic from a screen cap of live set, filmed by Filmed in Stereo.