Great Music Happened to Me Last Week

Great music happened to me last week.

First, the new Serena-Maneesh track "I Just Want to See Your Face" has my heart all a flutter. Based on this track, and the earlier single "Ayisha Abyss", I haven't been so excited for an album's release since...

The new Dead Mellotron album is out and it's great! And free, for now. I would love to work with this guy. Or tour with him.

And to complete the triangle of free fantastic music, the only thing that dislodged the previous two artists from my ears is THEE Satisfaction Loves the Sa-Ra Creative Partners. If you're like me, you've been waiting for these five tracks (in just under 10 minutes) for a long ass time. Perfect.

The Little Penguins played a show with The Glasses last Saturday and I have to say I totally loved The Glasses in their current incarnation. Check them out when you can.

KEXP tomorrow at noon. NEUMOS tomorrow night at 10:30. You know you want it.

the worst blogger in the world...

Somehow I'm going to get back into the swing of this, I swear.

Quick catch up, shall we?

The release party for The Lights new album "Failed Graves" is this Friday (Feb. 26th) at The Funhouse. The album will be available on vinyl and digital download from WANTAGE USA. Partman Parthorse opens. Oh, and I'm playing, too.

Click here are read what Hannah Levine has to say about it.



On March 4th, I'm doing my first headlining show at Neumos with Siren Sister, Exohxo, and Poland. Doors are at 7pm, so don't be late.

That afternoon, me and the band are hitting KEXP for our first in-studio performance. Tune in at noon to 90.3 FM in Seattle, or go to www.kexp.org to stream it from wherever you are in the world.

My next album is coming along in it's modest demo form (I think we're doing at least 3 songs from it at Neumos) and I'm getting pretty excited about it. I'm also very excited to be scoring a film by indie filmmaker Steven Richter of Portland via Sao Paulo called "Center of Gravity". More to come on that as it unfolds.

Shabazz Palaces is playing Sasquatch!

In the works are new The Little Penguins (who are playing the matinee show at The Comet this Saturday, Feb 27), new THEE Satisfaction, new Coulter, and hopefully a crazy ass art project with my wonderful friend and former collaborator on SloAsions, Phil. Again, when shit starts going down, you'll be the 2nd or 3rd to know.

xo

My Top 10

My top 10 of 2009 just got posted to KEXP's blog. Too bad I didn't think to write anything qualifying my picks.

http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2010/01/16/northwest-artists-pick-their-best-of-2009/

A post of lists.

2009 is over over over.

"The Way We Live" ended up #31 on KEXP's Top 90.3 of 2009, and made DJ Shannon's top 10.

It also got #22 on Sound on the Sound's Top 25 of 2009.

Nice, huh?