Next Weekend Should Totally Rock
February 12th, 2010
Though there’s a lot of cool stuff going on this weekend (Head Like An Espresso Truck, Cumulus Festival, Vivian Girls at the High Dive, etc.), I just wanted to give you all a heads up on next weekend, which should be prove to be just as attractive. Friday night (2/19) at the Funhouse will feature fuzzed out garage-rock label nomads Thee Oh Sees and Unnatural Helpers. I’ve been really jonesin’ to see both of these bands, especially Thee Oh Sees, who tour through Seattle all the time. I’ve described their music as a “gruff, snarky burst of discordant melodies, a cracked homage to the early punk bands of the 50s and 60s and the culmination of all the crud swimming around in John Dwyer’s head.” YES. Local racketeers Unnatural Helpers have a new 7″ (that there’s the cover art) scheduled for release through Hardly Art on March 30th, as well as some fantastic momentum following years of stunt-inducing lineup changes and little recognition. THE TIME IS NOW. Together with the crusty punk poetry of late 70s SoCal stalwarts the Urinals, this is a match made in a crazy place somewhere.
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Saturday at the Comet (2/20) should be a doozy as well: veteran punk musicians in new punk bands. Mike Jaworski’s new outfit, Virgin Islands, has been rabidly booking shows left and right; seems he couldn’t just stand idly by while the town lacked a rowdy, indignant Joe Strummer-style shit-kickin’ rock band. They pretty much sound like the Cops, only better. Little Cuts, comprised of Drew Church (the Cops) on bass, Dave Hernandez (the Shins, saw him play with Kinski once) on guitar, and Curtis James (the Old Haunts) on drums. They’re kind of reminding me of the Ponys or the Wrens right now. Groovy, dirty, exuberant. They also play tomorrow (2/13) at the Wildrose. Western Hymn, Craig Extine’s new band, is on the bill too. His former band, the Old Haunts, broke up last year, but he’s still strokin’ that snaky swamp gee-tar with intriguing results.
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Here’re the first four (4) tracks off of Help, Thee Oh See’s 2009 LP, just for good measure:
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