The venue probably has their own rules, but i feel like this is a simple rule that will help you get further in life than your average Juggalo. Biased? Yes.

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:E GREGR

Did people become weirder when YouTube blew up or have we always been strange with no cost effective way of capturing/distributing our wild minds?

Two dudes, Danny and… hmm… other guy, got all social and networked up a plan so significant that the world… well, likely won’t care for more than 2-3 minutes. That plan? Launch a beer into space! It’s time to find out the true height of the Nattosphere…

Maybe I’m spoiled bc we have so much awesome beer brewed right here in the PNW, but I could think of a few better brews to reach the absence of breathable atmosphere… The sweet video and I certainly wasn’t expecting the “POP” point and it’s rapid return to earth!

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:E GREGR

Uh oh. Can you hear that rumbling in the distance?
There’s a massive nerd war brewing. The likes of which we have never seen

In a September interview William Shatner (Captain Kirk) is asked to compare Star Trek vs Star Wars. He uses that question as an opportunity to lay into George Lucas’ baby thus igniting a fued that may consume us all.

Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) was none to pleased and fired back with a YouTube reponse only escalating things further.

Here’s how it has gone down.

Shatner’s initial statment

Fisher’s response

Shatner’s response to Fisher

Rodney King keeping it real

Kurt Cobain was cremated, so the following news story isn’t quite going to make him roll over in his grave. However, we are guessing if he knew this was going down it would be the equivalent of Axl Rose using his ashes as seasoning for his Christmas roast.

Retail outlet Forever 21 has created a version of Cobain’s famous “Flipper Shirt” and have currently put it on the racks for $16.90

Ugh

The original (seen below) was worn by Cobain during the bands 1992 SNL performance (and many other places after) and was created with a magic marker. A memorable nod to an artist that Cobain was a big fan of on one of music’s biggest stages.

Here’s hoping all the proceeds go to fund Flippers next tour.

The National are late. Not in the sense that someone knocked them up, or they were supposed to be onsage a half hour ago, but the change over between openers Local Natives and our headlining heroes is excessively long. Which about ten minutes before they take the stage we find out is due to backstage warm ups, hang outs, drink ons, and what have you. We know this because it’s all braodcast across the giant backdrop on stage. A live camera image watermarked in the center reads THE NATIONAL as we see the band walk through a door and as it turns out, onto the stage to the sound of cheers and then respectful silence as they open with runaway.

Part of you wonders if it’s difficult for the band to get in the headspace to play such melancholy songs each night but then singer Matt Beringer breaks the ice 2 songs in, cracking jokes about screwed up lyrics and too many rum and cokes. Bloodbuzz Ohio proves it’s worth as a first single early on in the set. It’s funny how a song can hit you so much harder once you’ve heard it once or twice and have 7 people in front of you translating it to your ear drums directly. Intense is an understatement for The National, their music just strikes a chord that I can’t say many other bands know how to play.

Beringer is super chatty tonight, and super drunk. It’s a fun juxtaposition to the songs dark atmosphere. Though as each song becomes more of a battle to remember the words, Beringer becomes increasingly frustrated, peaking with the chorus to swallow Victoria. As he screams the chorus, true emotion bleeding across, his frustration playing to our benefit as the band enter a breakdown culminating in a passionate climax beyond anything you could expect going in. The power of music appearing in front of us. This is where most bands fall apart but instead the national flourish. Perhaps it’s the nature of the source material.

“Conversation 16 into Lemonworld is f-cking epic.” That’s the literal note I wrote to myself after the band blazed through the 2 cuts from their latest (and fantastic) release, High Violet. Proof that some bands still get better over time and not the contrary. Conversations might be the best song of the last 5 years even, but that’s not what this review is here to argue. Some bands are just good. Plain and simple. There’s no describing, no explaining, sometimes you just feel it and understand.

The show draws to a close around an intense version of Terrible Love, people all around transfixed as the full sound of 2 horn players, and dual guitarists fills the sold out Neptune theater, wrapping all of us in a blanket of noise and passion. Before unplugging and ending on the most intimate of notes, an acoustic and microphone-less version of Vanderlyle. The crowd match Beringers vocals as they bid us farewell for the night and the moment is over, and it’s all just another memory of a phenomenal show slipping through our fingers.

#5 – Foster The People – Don’t Stop
#4 – The Lonely Forest – Turn Off This Song
#3 – Grouplove – Colours
#2 – Foo Fighters – These Days
#1 – Lana Del Rey – Blue Jeans

The Killers…Are they broken up? Are they not broken up? Are they a mormon band? I mean he did date that one chick that looked like that dude in February of last year, I’m not sure how kosher that is…but anyway, I digress, it’s almost Christmas time, and as such that means much like santa, the Las Vegas dudes aren’t gonna let us down by skippin it, delivering the strange yet….charming(?) Cowboys Christmas Ball, which is….actually not delivered yet, you’re sorta opening your present a little early (thank you internet.) So without futher ado, the first new Killers song since last Christmas….click here to have a listen.

Because Beck is way too busy doing nothing to putout his own record, he decided to take time off from sitting on mountains of unreleased material (and producing one of our favorite slacker-rock icons albums) to write/give some more songs to Charlotte Gainsbourg, which hey….we aren’t complaining. Cuz this song is a f-ckin jam and a half. But seriously dude, just put some of this stuff out already!! Taking a lot of sonic hints from his “Record Club sessions” it’s just the right amount of weird and definitely eons better than that thing he made with Danger Mouse. Have a listen and get ready to dance, or at least shake your ass over at Pitchfork.

Woo it’s Tuesday! Which means of course, record release day! No THATH don’t have a new full length just yet, but they do have a new Itunes Sessions EP out and unlike most of those that are total garbage and a ginormous waste of your time, this one actually has not one but 2 new songs! One of which you may be familiar with if you’ve seen the band live recently (and lets face it, if you’ve stepped out your door in the last 6 months, you’ve likely seen them somewhere” head over to Spin and have a listen to “When I Fall Asleep”. Pick up the whole session here.

As I cruised through the pages of Reddit today looking for funny stuff to share with you, I came across the following headline:

It’s like he’s my long lost brother that doesn’t beat me up. Instead he too loves cranes and we could totally party at Dick’s on Broadway while SUPERCRANE does it’s evil, anti-hipster business and terrorizes Seattle. Sigh.

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:E GREGR