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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

VAPOUR TRAIL. NEW Night! Tuesday 17 Jan . shoegaze DJs in Seattle

Vapour Trail continues in 2012 now on Tuesdays! It begins next week - Tuesday, January 17 and still at the Living Room. 9 pm - never a cover.

1. shoegaze
A style of rock music that emerged in England in the late 80s that featured blisteringly loud and dreamily reverberated feedback. Recently revived by electronic bands like M83 and Ulrich Schnauss.

Vapour Trail: A showcase featuring some of the largest collections of shoegaze, dreampop, ambient, space-faring music in the Northwest. Resident DJs Retina Burn, James and Jessica have done the required scientific exploration to bring you the most heavy-duty in sonic textures, waves of distortion, vocals and melodies disappearing into walls of echo-laden guitars, expansive soundscapes. This is the absolute business.

The Living Room now features an expanded beer selection for your pleasure and relaxing times.

The Living Room Bar
1355 E. Olive Way, Seattle, WA 98122
http://thelivingroombar.com/
facebook.com/thelivingroombar
facebook.com/vprtrail

Monday, December 5, 2011

Noteworthy albums, 2011

Indeed.

It's been a generous year for new music in many genres! Here's most of what got my attention in 2011 and what's part of my year's best considerations.

Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip (Club AC30)
Nils Frahm - Felt (Erased Tapes)
Ben Frost + Daniel Bjarnason - Solaris (Bedroom Community)
Deaf Center - Owl Splinters (Type)
Seefeel - Seefeel (Warp)
Christina Vantzou - No. 1 (Kranky)
Biosphere - N-Plants (Touch)
Alva Noto - Univrs (Raster-Noton)
Boris - Attention Please (DiwPhalanx/Sargent House)
Boris - Heavy Rocks 2011 (DiwPhalanx/Sargent House)
Boris - "New Album" (DiwPhalanx/Sargent House)
CoH - Iiron (Editions Mego)
Cyclo. - Id (Raster-Noton)
Vadislav Delay - Vantaa (Raster-Noton)
Group Doueh - Zayna Jumma (Sublime Frequencies)
Hildur Gudnadottir + Hauschka - Pan_Tone (Sonic Pieces)
Jacaszek - Glimmer
Frank Bretschneider - Komet
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (Sub Pop)
HTRK - Work (Work, Work) (Ghostly)
Mist - House (Spectrum Spools)
Leyland Kirby - Eager To Tear Apart The Stars (HAFTW)
Kode9 + The Spaceape - Black Sun (Hyperdub)
Kangding Ray - Or (Raster-Noton)
NHKyx - yx aka 1ch aka SOLO (Skam)
Mountains - Air Museum (Thrilljockey)
Simon Scott - Bunny (Miasmah)
Peter Broderick - Music For Confluence (Erased Tapes)
Max Richter - Sarah's Key: soundtrack
Ringo Deathstarr - Sparkler (Club AC30) [reissue]
Ride - Nowhere 20th Anniversary (Rhino Handmade) [reissue]
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs (Raster-Noton)
Still Corners - Creatures Of An Hour (Sub Pop)
Omar Souleyman - Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts (Sublime Frequencies)
The Son Of P.M. - Hey Klong Yao! [reissue]
Seapony - Go With Me (Hardly Art)
Ultralyd - Inertiadrome (Rune Grammofon)
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972 (Kranky)
The Men - Leave Home (Sacred Bones)

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Rough Trade

Pretty cool docu on Rough Trade from BBC4 a few years ago

http://vimeo.com/25951380

and here's your companion reader, which is in stock at Easy Street Queen Anne:

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

VAPOUR TRAIL. Sunday Nov 13 2011

Vapour Trail: A DJ night of pure washes of shimmering sound, sonic textures, waves of distortion, vocals and melodies disappearing into walls of echo-laden guitars, languid soundscapes. Dream pop, shoegaze, space rock, dark ambient and more are featured: Early 80s to present.

The Living Room Bar
1355 E. Olive Way, Seattle, WA 98122
1 206.708.6021
http://thelivingroombar.com/
facebook.com/thelivingroombar