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Noise For The Needy Festival Kicked Off Last Night (and I wasn’t there)

June 11th, 2009

Festival season here in the Puget Sound is kicking into high gear (pedal to the metal, dudes), with all sorts of recent announcements being broadcast over the ether and internets (see: Capitol Hill Block Party, Doe Bay Fest, Decibel Festival, West Seattle Summerfest, Georgetown Musicfest aka Artopia, others I’m forgetting). The eminent Noise for the Needy commenced last night (6/10) with a rousing show from Slender Means, Fences, New Faces, and Red Sea Sharks at Neumos. Actually, I have no idea if it was rousing or arousing since I wasn’t even there. Ha!

Anyway, the point is, there are gonna be some sweet shows this weekend if you have a dime and a deed to spare. Boorish Anglo-punks Art Brut might be the sexiest name floating around (meh), but I would say the devil is actually in the details. Or, maybe, ‘the proof is in the pudding’ might be more appropriate. Tired clichés aside, go find something that suits you and support.

This year’s lucky beneficiary is Transitional Resources, “a licensed mental health center and residential program located in West Seattle, which offers a full spectrum of optimistic and respectful mental health services to adults with major mental illnesses”. And how. You can find nice little writeups of my two recommended shows for the weekend on our concert calendar: Grand Archives, See Me River and the Curious Mystery at the Croc tomorrow, and Point Juncture, WA, the Pica Beats, Black Whales, and Grant Olsen at Chop Suey on Saturday. Other than that, you might also want to check out Throw Me The Statue (Indy or indie?) tonight at the Tractor, the Whoremoans and Speaker Speaker Friday at the Underground Events Center (where the hell is that?) in Belltown (oh), or the shitstorm going on at the Wildrose on Saturday: MCD soundalikes Black Eyes and Neckties with Telepathic Liberation Army, Loving Thunder, and The Beats, Man (the two dudes from Pleasureboaters who didn’t leave town).

Check out some of these posters! (see more at their myspace):

Full lineup after the jump/cut/fold/whatever.

Wednesday June 10
Neumos
Slender Means
Fences
New Faces
Red Sea Sharks
8PM | 21+ | $10
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Wednesday June 10
The Comet
Coulter
This is a Process of a Still Life
Safer
Skeletons With Flesh On Them
9PM | 21+ | $7
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Thursday June 11
Tractor Tavern
Throw Me The Statue
“Awesome”
Velella Velella
9PM | 21+ | $10
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Thursday, June 11
Sunset Tavern
Adam Stephens and the Finite Plain
(Two Gallants)
Widower
Jack Wilson & the Wife Stealers
Shane Tutmarc
8PM | 21+ | $10
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Thursday June 11
Conor Byrne
Half Light
Trentalange
Cataldo
Cosmic Panther Land Band
(All Star Line-up)
9PM | 21+ | $7
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Friday, June 12, 2009
The Crocodile
Grand Archives
See Me River
The Curious Mystery
9PM | 21+ | $12 ADV/$15 DOS
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Friday June 12
Underground Events Center | Belltown
The Whore Moans
Speaker Speaker
Wallpaper
The Greatest Hits
The Raggedy Anns
CASH BAR
8PM | 21+ | $7
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Saturday June 13
Neumos
Art Brut (UK)
Miike Snow
8PM | ALL AGES
Bar w/ID | $13
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Saturday June 13
Wildrose
9PM | 21+ | $7
Black Eyes & Neckties
Telepathic Liberation Army
Loving Thunder
The Beats, Man
9PM | 21+ | $7
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Saturday, June 13
High Dive
Happy hour show | Just added!
Kissing Potion
Fells Acres
5PM | 21+ | $5

Saturday, June 13
High Dive
Furniture Girls
Hotels
Born Anchors
Anomie Belle
9PM | 21+ | $8
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Saturday, June 13
The Comet
Brent Amaker & the Rodeo
The Valley
An Invitation to Love
The Beautiful Confusion
The Thoughts
8PM | 21+ | $8
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Saturday, June 13
Chop Suey
Point Juncture, WA
The Pica Beats
Black Whales
Grant Olsen (Arthur & Yu)
Djs Tom Conqergood & Cuddleup
9PM | 21+ | $10
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Saturday, June 13
Lo-Fi/Victory Lounge
Emerald City Soul Club
Resident DJs:
Gene Balk
Mike Chrietzberg
Brian Everett
George Gell
KennyMac
Alvin Mangosing
Marc Muller
Mike Nipper
Guest DJ:
George Rodriguez (LA)
9PM | 21+ | $10