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Holiday wishes from our Scottish friends Radio Magnetic and Tommy Perman.  Because “if it’s not Scottish, it’s crap.”

What drives Knoxville’s most famous cartoonist? Total fear. 

Check out this inspiring article from Metro Pulse about our friend Joel Trussell and his rise to success as an animator. Way to go Joel!

Thursday September 27th - Showbox presents a benefit for Talia Reyna featuring MARK PICKEREL AND HIS PRAYING HANDS with DANCE MUSIC FOR DEPRESSED PEOPLE, TENNIS PRO, PARTMAN PARTHORSE and WE WROTE THE BOOK ON CONNECTORS. $10.00 advance and day of show at Ticketmaster. Doors at 7pm. All Ages.

Talia Reyna was diagnosed with a very rare, very aggressive, and very deadly form of brain cancer. She is 34, and has a 9 year old son. For more information, visit http://www.myspace.com/seattlestenger.

Join all our pals at Fantagraphics Bookstore in Georgetown this Saturday for “The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora,” a are show by the maniacal 50s era hep cat illustrator. Flora’s manic caricatures of jazz legends like Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, and Gene Krupa for RCA Victor and Columbia wreaked havoc with the laws of physics.

The opening on Saturday, September 22,2007 features a set by chanteuse Annabella Kirby’s new trio the Moon Spinners. So head down to Georgetown between 6 and 8 PM for a swingin’ early evening. 1201 S. Vale Street (at Airport Way S.) 206.568.0110. The show runs September 22 - October 24, 2007.

Here’s what Matt, Jesse Hibert, Candi Hibert, Shawn Wolfe, Jessica Barnes, Kristi Torgrimson, Mark and I were doing last night. 

Here’s the Barcelona version…

THURSDAY JULY 26
THREE IMAGINARY GIRLS & NEUMOS PRESENT
YACHT ROCK FOR PUGET SOUND!
TONS OF AMAZING BANDS COVER THE SMOOTH-ROCK HITS OF THE 70’s and early-80’s!featuring members of DUSTY 45s, DUDLEY MANLOVE QUARTET, VISQUEEN, MATH & PHYSICS CLUB, TIM SEELY,  & MANY MORE!!!!
7PM doors
$8 DOS/ $7 if you come in Yacht-Rock Costume!
Proceeds benefit
People For Puget Sound

Jesse R.–we expect you to wear the captain’s cap that Tizzy gave you…

June, 13 2007 at Vera Project ** FREE**
Seattle Center, Seattle,
Cost : Free

Good/Bad Archive Project presents a benefit for The Vera Project
Rock Lottery 3
 
Saturday, July 14th (starts PROMPTLY at 10pm), 21+
at Neumo’s - 925 East Pike Street  Seattle, Washington 98122,  www.neumos.com,   206.709.9467
Advance tickets available at - www.ticketswest.com
$10 admission

10AM - 25 Musicians. 10PM - 5 New Bands
The Rock Lottery is simple, but effective.  Twenty-five hand picked musicians meet at 10:00AM at the evening’s performance venue.  These volunteers are organized into five bands through a lottery based chance selection.  The five different groups are then released to practice at different locations.  The musicians have twelve hours to create a band name and three to five songs (with a one cover song limit).  The bands will then return to the venue and perform what they have created in front of a waiting audience.

The twenty-five musicians included in this experiment are carefully selected in an attempt to represent a wide variety of musical styles.  This event will bring together many facets of the music community that may seem incompatible, as well as musicians whose interests may conflict.  The challenge for these participants is to try and go beyond their personal and musical differences and work together to create a unified group project that still contains the personal styles of each of its members.

Participants include:

• Charles Leo Gebhardt (White Nights, The Catheters, Tall Birds)
• Choklate (Choklate)
• Craig Flory (Trio Bar Tabac, The Suffering Fuckheads, The Syncopated Taint Septet, Combo Craig, Tuatara)
• Damien Jurado (Damien Jurado)
• Daniel Spils (Maktub, SynthClub, The Alaskans)
• David Terry (Aqueduct)
• Elie Goral (Raz Rez)
• Eric Elbogen (Say Hi to your Mom)
• Erin Jorgenson (The French Project)
• Heidi Wischler (Shiftless Layabout, The Red Note, Big Dog Revue, Randy Oxford Blues Band)
• Jared Clifton (Radio Nationals )
• Jen Wood (Jen Wood)
• Josh Evans (Felicia Loud and the Soul)
• Katharina Tunicata (The Sea Donkeys, Kaliningrad, Big Tribal Balls)
• Kirk Bentley (Pleasurecraft, Chadwick)
• Levi Fuller (Levi Fuller, The Luna Moth)
• Michaela Brangan (Sun Vow)
• Nat Damm (Akimbo)
• Nate Mooter (The Lashes, Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground, Strong Killings)
• Rick Kowai (Jonny Sonic & the Eclectics)
• Rob Knop (Harvey Danger)
• Sean Lowry (Tennis Pro)
• Tacket Brown (Hayley Sales)
• + 2 more

The Rock Lottery has been a staple of the Denton, TX music scene for a decade. The 10th anniversary of the Rock Lottery event will be celebrated this October with Denton Rock Lottery 10
The Seattle Rock Lottery is a benefit, with all proceeds going to The Vera Project.  The musicians chosen to participate are unpaid volunteers.  The participants are chosen by the Rock Lottery participant committee  with suggestions from the staff of The Vera Project and other members of Seattle’s music community.

Please visit: http://myspace.com/rocklottery (click on the blog entries to see past participants and the bands that they created.  also visit: http://rocklottery.com

Check out the Cold Hard Flash article on our friend and confidant (shhhh!) Joel Trussell.  We told you that Matt worked on Cold Cut’s “This Island Earth”.  See!  We didn’t make it up.