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A fair amount of notable acts have emerged from the Australian music scene over the past couple years. From the likes of Cut Copy, Tame Impala and Empire of the Sun, Australia’s taste continues to be at the tip of listener’s tongues. Judging by the recent buzz created by Melbourne’s Little Red, there’s seemingly another name to add to that list.
Late last year, Midnight Remember arrived from Little Red and turned some heads. Little Red has since signed with True Panther Records, home to lovely Delorean, Girls and Tanlines, who …
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Chad Valley – Now That I’m Real (How Does It Feel) from Lucy Bridger on Vimeo.
Seattle Scenester got a chance to catch up with Chad Valley, the emerging New Wavist from the ever-so-thriving Oxford scene. Chad Valley (Hugo Manuel) has put out two EPs in the last year and has become quite the name drop in the blog world. Hugo is the lead singer of another notable Oxford band, Jonquil. Above is a gem from his latest EP, Equatorial Ultravox. Chad Valley will be playing at The Crocodile with Active …
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Sonny Smith and his friends (and backing band) The Sunsets are working their way back to Seattle to play The Funhouse on Tuesday, June 28th. Sonny brings his innocent, lovey dovey doo-wop songs from San Francisco on the first leg of their US/CANADA tour with The Sandwitches. Seattle’s Seapony, who Seattle Scenester has seen on several accounts, will be opening for the show.
Sonny and the Sunsets have kept mouths fed for the past couple years. In 2007, The Sunsets, a rotating group of Bay area kids well known in the …
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Every college band’s dream is to escape the inebriated house party circuit and make some music for the greater ear. The New Division, originally a dorm room project by frontman John Kunkel, has done exactly that. In 2007, Kunkel created a four-piece out of California Baptist University, keeping the name and the synthy influence. Kunkel has continued to be the brain child of much of the writing and sound while his mates have aided in their great live shows, playing out of Riverside, California. Over the past three years, The …
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Theatre Schmeater has been kind enough to host a mini series put on by Improvolution, a small, quirky cast who met at Cornish College of the Arts. The series is a 3 week run of late night comedy in long-form (which means that the scenes are related to each other in some way). Tonight, April 8th, is the third and final show.
Improvolution has a cutesy story behind it, in that the six of them met as freshman back at Cornish. They are comprised of Richard Andreissen (the musician), Dana Blasingame …
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Earlier this week, Aaron wrote a great piece about Sarah Vowell at Town Hall Seattle, and I was amazed that this incredible event was only $5. And it turns out, many of them are! I for one really appreciate learning something new, and I’m really impressed with the line up at Town Hall. It sounds like the rest of this week holds talks on a couple of interesting topics. Today, evolutionary psychologist and author Robert Curzban speaks about the evolutionary roots of hypocrisy. And tomorrow, Gregory Button speaks about how we, as a nation, and as a culture respond to disasters, including Exxon-Valdez and the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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These past couple of weeks, Seattle has seen a small downturn in particularly notable musical performances. We’ll be seeing a lot more bands coming through Seattle in April, but this month has definitely seen a rise in stimulating, shouldn’t-be-missed events at Town Hall, the community cultural beacon on a hill – First Hill. On Thursday, March 31, evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban will be discussing his new book, Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite.
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This coming Monday, This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell will be speaking at Town Hall about her new book, “Unfamiliar Fishes,” which discusses the history of American imperialism in a new light. While we all know we acquired Hawaii sometime in later U.S. history, it’s not always evident in historical descriptions how this came to be. It was a more cruel and bitter process than a lot of people know, and thankfully Vowell has a lot to say about it.
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The Intiman Theatre has kicked off their year with “All My Sons”, a play originally penned in 1947, and seen on screen both in 1948 and 1987. The story was written by Author Miller, as his last attempt success as a playwright. In case you didn’t know, Miller went on to write Death of a Salesman, the Crucible and A View from the Bridge.
All My Sons is a story about the American Dream, love and death in World War 2– only with curveballs. Intiman’s performance is directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton, …
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Tuesday 6pm next week at Tableau Software (see map) is Hacks/Hackers Seattle Demo 2011. Come see how technology and media meet to produce visualizations of public data (Ellie Fields of Tableau), social networking that feeds the news cycle (Monica Guzman from Intersect), and other products and companies out of the Seattle tech and media scenes.
