Jolene

Soundgarden boxed set!!

 

SOUNDGARDEN: Hits In a Box

 

 

All of Soundgarden's major-label albums will be released in a box set on May 22nd. The Classic Album Selection includes 1989's Louder Than Love, 1991's Badmotorfinger, 1994's Superunknown, 1996's Down on the Upside and last year's live album, Live on I-5. The set doesn't include any of the rarities or outtakes from their collections A Sides or Telephantasm.

Sit N Spin!

 

According to Avclub.com the top 10 of the 25 iconic snare drum intros!

 

I'm including all 25 for you drum geeks!!

 

Listen to the playlist!
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1. Led Zeppelin, “Whole Lotta Love” 

The kick drum may be where the beat lives, but generally speaking, a song doesn’t truly begin until the snare enters. It’s the most valuable player of any drum kit, the anchor of every rhythm, the make-it-or-break-it force behind a song’s respective strength, the thing listeners tap their steering wheels to—and yet, it often goes unsung, likely disregarded as too utilitarian or ordinary to be of note. But under the right hands, the snare drum can be every bit as iconic as a guitar solo. Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham was one such master of precise snare work, and while he’s rightly celebrated for his hard-hitting double-bass thundering on “Immigrant Song” or the frenzied multi-headed cacophony of “Moby Dick,” he also demonstrated the arresting power of a simple snare drum intro on songs like “D’Yer Mak’er” and especially the muscular, minimalist wonder that kicks off “Whole Lotta Love.” After 30 seconds of seduction from Jimmy Page’s slow-vamping guitar and Robert Plant talking the audience’s pants off, Bonham breaks the mounting tension with a series of snare drum 16th notes so ballsy it’s like he’s rapping them out with his testicles, then rolls off down the toms like lovers tumbling into bed. Plant and Page may have set the mood, but—as with any solid rock tune—it’s the arrival of Bonham’s swaggering snare that announces it’s time to get down to business.

 

2. Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” 

Dave Grohl made his recorded Nirvana debut on the opening of Nevermind’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” simultaneously shaking off the grungy cobwebs of the group’s Chad Channing-driven era and blasting it onto the national stage with his monster flams—the first volley of the “alternative” rock war in four furious blasts. The song’s impact has been rehashed and overstated so many times it’s lost some of its power, but that’s not true of Grohl’s intro, which still kicks like cannon fire.

 

3. R.E.M., “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” 

Michael Stipe’s machine-gun delivery on Document’s “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” continues to vex listeners who’ve heard the song a million times, yet still cling to “Leonard Bernstein” as the buoy in a sea of impossible-to-memorize lyrics. But even relative neophytes can air-drum along to Bill Berry’s equally rapid snare salvo—a playfully military-inspired rat-a-tat that jumpstarts the song with an instant kick of bombs-away energy. They’re drums of war that quickly turn into drums of danceable abandon, which is exactly what the song is all about.

 

4. Michael Jackson, “Rock With You”

Three years before Thriller officially became The Biggest Thing That’s Ever Existed In 20th-Century Popular Music, Michael Jackson perfected the formula for mass crossover success with 1979’s Off The Wall. Jackson set out to appeal to many different audiences simultaneously by subtly slipping elements from different genres into his music: an R&B groove here, a rock guitar there, and an easily digestible pop melody uniting it all. On paper, this might sound like pandering. But when the formula produces a song as perfect as “Rock With You,” who can fault pandering? The snare hits at the start of “Rock With You” instantly conjure one of Michael Jackson’s most loved songs, but for the first-time listener, they are cleverly non-distinct: This could be a disco track, a cool soul ballad, or a pop-rock song. In fact, it’s all three, though “Rock With You” makes such distinctions seem irrelevant for three and a half minutes. 

 

5. Bob Dylan, “Like A Rolling Stone”

When inducting Bob Dylan into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1988, Bruce Springsteen referred to the opening of “Like A Rolling Stone” as “that snare shot that sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind.” Listeners spend the entire tune recovering from that initial hit, which serves as a concussive blast obliterating any limits to what a pop song can do. It’s a statement of purpose, a call to arms, and a preemptive strike (and it’s even more important when you think of rock music in terms of pre- and post-“Rolling Stone”). The most famous version of the intro probably occurs during the song’s most famous performance, captured on The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert (which was actually recorded at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall). After hecklers cried “Judas” and “I’m never listening to you again!” Dylan admonished the crowd before directing his band, The Hawks, “Play fucking loud.” Drummer Mickey Jones obliged with that single electrifying snare hit, and the rest is rock history. 

 

6. The Doors, “Light My Fire” 

Much like Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone” from a couple of years earlier, The Doors kicked off the breakthrough hit from their self-titled debut with John Densmore’s single snare crack—a surprisingly simplistic choice from one of rock’s fussiest drummers. Densmore’s patterns from there follow his usual lightly jazzy, Latin-inflected idiom, but the entire song lives in the wake of that reverb-laden opening smack, ringing out as startlingly (and theatrically) as a gunshot. As Greil Marcus wrote of the band’s performance of the song on The Ed Sullivan Show, “At the time, it was hard to imagine anyone hitting anything harder”—and while certainly other drummers have topped it in intensity since then, few have matched Densmore’s understated ability to make you sit up and listen with a single note. 

 

7. U2, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”

In spite of anchoring one of the most successful rock bands ever for more than 30 years, Larry Mullen never gets mentioned among the genre’s most famous drummers. Being flashy is not Mullen’s role in U2: When you play alongside someone like Bono, it’s your job to minimize the bullshit. Mullen’s drumming is workmanlike in the best possible sense—it would only be noticeable if it weren’t there, at which point the whole stadium-filling exercise would fall apart. At the start of “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” Mullen gets a rare moment in the spotlight, when his martial snare pounding signals the start of U2’s angriest and hardest-hitting anthem. What Mullen does is not complicated, nor does it need to be. “Sunday Bloody Sunday” is U2 at its leanest and meanest, and Mullen’s steady beat announces the song as a call to arms that’s just as powerful as anything described by his grandiose singer in the lyrics. 

 

8. The Smashing Pumpkins, “Cherub Rock”

Recorded in the midst of one of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin’s worst heroin benders, “Cherub Rock” was reportedly the breaking point for Billy Corgan, who punished Chamberlin by having him record the drum part over and over until his hands bled. The incident is but one of many examples of times when Corgan’s perfectionism bordered on tyranny, but whatever he did, it worked. While it may lack the showiness of, say, the barreling “Geek U.S.A.,” from the same album, Chamberlin’s “Cherub Rock” intro—a series of insistent rolls followed by quickening stabs that build in intensity that matches Corgan’s guitar riff—provides an unmistakable, arresting opening to Siamese Dream that’s worth a little bloodshed. 

 

9. Paul Simon, “The Obvious Child” 

If you’re going to put the word “rhythm” in your album title, you’d best lead off with something more intricate than a 4/4 backbeat. For 1990’s The Rhythm Of The Saints, Paul Simon hired the Brazilian troupe Olodum, whose introduction to “The Obvious Child” opens the album with a literal bang. The metallic rap of snare hits played by multiple drummers in perfect unison is almost militaristic at first, but the beat quickly shifts into a lopsided rhythm that feels more like a horse’s gallop. A pointed departure from the mellow mbaqanga of Graceland, those sharp opening reports of “Obvious Child”—both as the album’s first track and its first single—served notice that Simon wasn’t going to simply copy Rhythm’s hugely successful predecessor, and that he was still searching for new sounds.

 

10. The Police, “Can’t Stand Losing You”

The Police were masters of catchy, instantly recognizable intros, many of those coming from drummer Stewart Copeland. Copeland had more than his fair share of drums—probably still does—but the five-beat snap at the start of “Can’t Stand Losing You” (from the band’s 1978 debut, Outlandos D’Amour) announces the song’s intentions better than any Rototom monstrosity could. 

 

 

And for the rest of the list!!!

 

11. The Who, “I Can See For Miles”

12. Weezer, “Undone (The Sweater Song)”

13. The Ventures, “Hawaii Five-O”

14. Steve Miller Band, “Take The Money And Run”

15. The Clash, “Tommy Gun”

16. The Rolling Stones, “Get Off Of My Cloud” 

17. Gene Pitney, “Town Without Pity”

18. Bruce Springsteen, “Hungry Heart”

19. Stevie Wonder, “Superstition”

20. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, “Crosstown Traffic”

21. The Temptations, “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg”

22. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, “Here Comes My Girl”

23. Cheap Trick, “Surrender” 

24. Bel Biv Devoe, “Poison”

25. James Brown, “Funky Drummer”

 

 

Hope you enjoyed!!

Jolene  

Record Store Day!!!!

 

 

Tomorrow is a great day to go out and support our local music retailers!  Here is some of the groovy things available and below is a list of local stores involved!!

 

 

Easy Street - West Seattle's upcoming events

ARTIST DETAILS DATE

Lance Mercer Photo Exhibition

info Saturday, April 21

The Young Evils

info Saturday, April 21

Reignwolf

 

 

Silver Platters Queen Anne's upcoming events

ARTIST DETAILS DATE

Will Hoge

info Saturday, April 21

Gravel Road

info Saturday, April 21

Dar Williams

info Saturday, April 21

Caveman

info Saturday, April 21

Perfume Genius

 

We will be doing giveaways throughout the day including Skullcandy headphones, autographed LP's/posters. We're also hosting a Jack White album listening party at 2 pm, and a Star Anna in-store at 4 pm. The Mike McCready/Star Anna – Call Your Girlfriend 7" release will be available to purchase. All 7"s already autographed by Mike McCready!...thanks Mike!!

 

Here's the list as promised!

 

Sonic Boom Record Store List Day 2012

 

7”s 

Ryan Adams – Heartbreak a Stranger

Afrika Bambaata/MC5 – Kick Out the Jams

Priscilla Ahn/Sea of Bees – John Denver Tribute

Arctic Monkeys – Electricity

Sara Bareilles – Stay/Beautiful

Baseball Project – El Hombre/Harey Haddix

Beach House – Lazuli

Black Angels – Watch Out Boy

Black Prairie – Singers Vol. 1 Portland

Black Twig Pickers – Yellow Cat

Blitzen Trapper – Hey Joe

Blood for Blood – Enemy

Bloos Magoos – So I’m Wrong

Blouse/Craft Spells – Gruesome Flowers (Wake Tribute)

Blues Project – Parchman Farm

Bowerbirds – In the Yard

David Bowie – Starman (Pic Disc)

Brad – Waters Deep/Don’t Cry

James Brown – There it is/Pass the Peas

Michael Buble/Ray Charles – Georgia on my Mind

Richard Buckner – Willow

Byrds – I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better

Captain Beefheart – Diddy Wah Diddy

Carolina Chocolate Drops/Run DMC – You be Illin’

Chocolate Watch Band – In the Midnight Hour

Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Blue Suede Shoes

Civil Wars – Billie Jean

Gene Clark – One In A Hundred

Clash – London Calling 2012

Coldplay – Up with the Birds

Colossal Yes – Deep Fried Boogie Band

CSC Funk Band – Little Weight

Cult – For the Animals

Deerhood/Of Montreal – Split

Lana Del Rey – Born to Die/Blue Jeans

Dillard & Clark – Why Not Your Baby

Dirty Beaches/Xiu Xiu – Split

Dry the River – New Ceremony

Justin Townes Earle – Nothing’s Gonna Change

ESG/Las Kellies – Erase You

Jimmy Fallon – Tebowie

Field Music - Actually Nearly

Flaming Lips/Mastodon – Spoonful Weighs a Ton

Flogging Molly – Drunken Lullabies

Florence & the Machine – Shake it Out

Foster the People – Broken Jaw/Ruby

Garbage – Blood for Poppies

Grouplove – Don’t Fly too Close to the Sun

Dave Hause – Resolutions

Hiss Golden Messenger – Jesus Shot me in the Head

Hives – Go Right Ahead

Patterson Hood – After It’s Gone

Horrible Crows – RSD 7

Icky Blossoms – Babes

Juicehead/Osaka Popstars – Waiting Room

Jukebox the Ghost – I Love You Always 4 Ever

Lydia Loveless – Bad Way To Go

M83 – Mirror (etched)

Laura Marling – Flicker and Fail

Martian Denny Orchestra - Crossfire

Mastodon/Feist – Feistodon

Paul McCartney – Another Day

Mike McCready/Star Anna – Call Your Girlfriend

Miike Snow – Devil’s Work Remixes

Mikal Cronin/Apache Dropout – Liminanas/Paperhead

My Brightest Diamond – I Have Never Loved Someone

Mynabirds – Generals

Mynabirds – It’s My Time

Neanderthals – Groovy Dances

Nightwish – Trials of Imaginaerum

Nobunny – Maximumrocknroll

Now Now/Lonely Forest – Shifting/Woe is Me

Oberhofer – Away From U

Ozzy Osbourne – Believer/Goodbye to Romance

Shuggie Otis – Inspiration Information

Amanda Palmer – Polly/Idioteque 

Paul Revere & Raiders - Ride Your Pony

Check Persons – Add Complete

Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II (Box Set)

Po & the 4Fathers – Kingdome Come

Pujol – Reverse Vampire

Pussy Galore – Feel Good About Your Body ep

Ra Ra Riot - Valerie

Joey Ramone – Rock n Roll is the Answer

Otis Redding/Aretha Franklin – Respect

Ric & Ron – 1958-1962 7” Box Set

Caitlin Rose – Piledriver Waltz

School of Seven Bells – Kiss Them for Me

Edward Sharpe – One Love to Another

Slightly Stoopid / Expendables – John Denver Tribute

Small Faces – Itchycoo Park

Small Faces – Tin Soldier

Smugglers Way Flexi Disc Zine – V/A

Regina Spektor – Prayer for Francios Villon

Bruce Springsteen – Rocky Ground/Promise (live)

St Vincent - KROKODIL

Sufjan Stevens/Rosie Thomas – Hit & Run vol 1

T-Rex – Electric Warrior 7” Box Set

Richard Thompson – Haul Me Up/’52 Vincent Black Lightning

Tortoise – Lonesome Sound/Mosquito

Uncle Tupelo – 7” Singles Box Set

Unrest – Perfect Teeth Box Set

V/A Never to be Forgotten: Flip Side of Stax 1968-1974 Box Set

Eddie Vedder – Love Boat Captain

Visioneers - Hipology

Walk the Moon – Anna Sun/Anyway I Can

M Ward – Primitive Girl

Sara Watkins/Everly Bros – You’re the One I Love

Mike Watt & Missingmen – Sweet Honey Pie

Paul Weller – That Dangerous Age

Winter Boys – Daffodils

Zeus – Permanent Scar

 

LP’s/12”/10”

Abba – Voulez Vous

Anberlin – Blueprints for the Black Market

Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personally

Animal Collective – Transverse Temporal Gyrus

Arcade Fire – Sprawl II

Atmosphere & Uncluded – 10” Pic Disc

Joan Baez – Farewell Angelina

Battles – Dross Glop 3

Black Keys – El Camino Special Edition

Botch – Anthology of Dead Ends

Breakfast Club – OST

Dave Brubeck – Fantasy 3-3 Distinctive Rhythm

Matt Chamberlain – Company 23

Childish Gambino – Heartbeat

Circle – Manner

Gary Clark Jr. – HWUL Raw Cuts Vol 1

Cleaners – LP Box Set

Leonard Cohen – Live in Fredericton

Common – Dreamer the Believer

Larry Coryell – Spaces

Cure – Entreat Plus

Cursive – Burst & Bloom

Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr – We Almost Lost Detroit

Miles Davis – Forever Miles

Matthew Dear – Headcage

Death Cab For Cutie - Keys & Codes Remix EP

Death Grips – Money Store

Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies

Devo – Live in Seattle 1981

Luther Dickinson – Zip a Dee Doo Dah

DJ Food – Illectrik Hoax

Dr John – Locked Down

Electronic Anthology Project – of Dinosaur Jr

Empire Records – OST

Farrar/Johnson/Parker/Yames – Let’s Multiply

Flaming Lips – And Heady Fwends

Fleetwood Mac - S/T 33RPM

Fleetwood Mac – S/T 45RPM

Freakwater – Feels Like the Third Time

Fun – Ghost That You Are

Futurebirds – Seney Stovall

Duke Garwood & Wooden Wand – Duke/Wand

Gorillaz – Do Ya Thing

Grateful Dead – Dark Star

Gravenhurst – Prize

Green – Ways & Means

Buddy Guy – This is Buddy Guy

Lee Hazlewood – LHI Years

Hey Mercedes – Hey Mercedes EP

Horse Feathers – Cynics New Year

Hush Arbors/Arbouretum – Aureola

Nicholas Jaar & 78 Edits – Mike James Kirkland: Luv N Haight

Skip James – Devil Got my Woman

Jamiroquai – Rock Dust Light Star

Janis Joplin – Highlights from the Peal Sessions

Janis Joplin – Pearl

Knack – Live in Los Angeles 1978

LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge

Lee Scratch Perry – Blackboard Jungle Dub Box

Little Richard – Here’s Little Richard

Luna – Rendezvous

Luna – Romantica

Mae – Everglow

Myrian Makenwa – Extraordinaria

Mariachi El Bronx – Live

Branford Marsalis Quartet – Four MF’s Playin’ Tunes

Mates of State – Crushes

Matt Pond PA – Measure

Matt Pond PA – Several Arrows Later

Mclusky – Mclusky Do Dallas

Medicine – Box Set

Dan Melchoir – Ghost in the Supermarket

Metallica – Beyond Magnetic

Misfits – Walk Among Us (30th Anniversary)

Mississippi John Hurt – Last Sessions

Neon Indian – Hey Girlfriend

Numero Presents – WTNG 89.9 FM Solid Bronze

Sinead O’Connor – How Bout I be Me and You Be You

Odd Future – Of Tape Vol 2

Of Monsters & Men – Into the Woods

Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzy Live

Phenomenal Handclap Band / Peaches – Walk The Night

P.I.L. – One Drop

Pelican – Australasia

Katy Perry – Part of Me 12”

Phish – Junta (Deluxe Edition)

Phish – Junta (Deluxe Pollock Edition)

Pistol Annies – Hell on Heels

Iggy Pop & the Stooges – Raw Power

Portland Cello Project – Homage

Grave Potter – Live from the Legendary Sun Studio

Preteen Zenith – s/t 

Pretty in Pink – OST

Radical Face – Family Tree Presents

Rainbow – Long Live Rock n Roll (Pic Disc)

Rainer Maria – S/T

Lou Reed – Rock n Roll Animal

Lou Reed – Transformer

Refused – Shape of Punk to Come

Rockabye Baby Series – Smiths Covers

Rough Guide to African Roots – V/A

Rough Guide to New Orleans – V/A

Rough Guide to Psychedelic Africa – V/A

Sacred Bones Presents – Todo Muerte Vol 2

Shabazz Palaces – Live at KEXP

Sigur Ros – Hvarf/Heim

Paul Simon – Graceland 25th Anniversary

Skaggs & Rice – S/T

Patti Smith – Horses

Snapcase – Progression Through Unlearning

Social Distortion – Hard Times (Autographed)

Social Distortion – Hard Times (Ltd w/poster)

Esperanza Spalding – Radio Music Society

Ralph Stanley – Single Girl

Starfucker – Heaven’s Youth

Straylight Run – S/T

Taking Back Sunday – We Play Songs

Tallest Man on Earth – King of Spain

Tegan & Sara – Get Along (White vinyl)

Tinariwen – Tassili

Tomahawk – Eponymous to Anonymous

Tomtem – Ta Tan Dana

Peter Tosh – Legalize It (Echodelic remixes)

Pete Townshend – Quadrophenia Demos 2

Trans Am – S/T

Ugly Custard – S/T

Uncle Tupelo – March 16-20 1992

Uncle Tupelo – No Depression

Uncle Tupelo – Still Feel Gone

V/A – Complex Vol 1

V/A – Eight Trails, One Path

Townes Van Zandt – At My Window

Variety Lights – Silent Too Long

Wake – here Comes Everybody & Singles

White Hills – Head on Fire

Widespread Panic - Live Wood

Wilco – Whole Love Box Set

Jonathan Wilson – Pity Trials and Tomorrow’s…

Steven Wilson – Catalogue / Preserve

Windy & Carl – S/T EP (Blue vinyl)

Adrian Younge – VS Quesada

 

CD’s

Brendan Benson – What Kind of World

Billy Bragg/Wilco – Maermaid Ave: Complete Sessions

Civil Wars – Live at Amoeba

Electronic Anthology Project – Of Dinosaur Jr.

Hush Arbor/Arbouretum – Aureola

King Crimson – Box Set RSD Version

Medicine – Buried Life

Medicine – Shot Forth Self Living

Numero Presents: WTNG 89.9 FM

Switchfoot – Vice Re-verses

 

STAR ANNA 

Free All Ages In-store Performance!

Saturday, April 21 at 4PM

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Visit us on Record Store Day and see Star Anna perform live! We'll have her Record Store Day 7" available - a collaboration with Mike McCready of Pearl Jam. McCready wrote and performed "Keep On" with Star Anna on vocals. Star Anna performs an acoustic cover of Robyn's dance-pop hit "Call Your Girlfriend" Limited Supply!

 

Releases:

311 - 311 - 12" vinyl of four remixes

Arcade Fire - "Sprawl II" - 12" vinyl single

The Black Keys - El Camino - 12" vinyl album with a 7" single featuring previously unreleased live tracks

The Clash - "London Calling" - 7" vinyl single

The Cult - "For The Animals" - 7" vinyl single

Coldplay - "Up With The Birds"/"UFO" - 7" vinyl single

Disturbed - The Collection - 12" vinyl box set

The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends - 12" vinyl album (includes guest spots by Bon Iver, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Jim James of My Morning Jacket and Chris Martin of Coldplay)

Foster The People - "Broken Jaw"/"Ruby" - 7" vinyl single

Fun. - "The Ghost That You Are To Me" - 10" picture disc

Garbage - "Blood For Poppies" - 7" vinyl single

Mastodon/The Flaming Lips - "A Spoonful Weighs A Ton" - 7" vinyl single

Mastodon/Feist - 7" vinyl single

Metallica - Beyond Magnetic EP - 12" silver vinyl

The Mynah Byrds (Neil Young's band with Rick James) - "It's My Time"/"Go On And Cry" - 7" vinyl single

Ozzy Osbourne - "Believer" - 7" black and white polka dot vinyl

Ozzy Osbourne - Live - double 12" vinyl

Rainbow - Long Live Rock and Roll 12" picture disc

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium - 12" vinyl box set

Bruce Springsteen - "Rocky Ground" - 7" vinyl single

Switchfoot - Vice Re-Verses - CD

Pete Townshend - Quadrophenia Demos Part 2 - 10" vinyl

Eddie Vedder - "Love Boat Captain"/"Wishlist" - 7" vinyl single

The White Stripes - "Hand Springs"/"Red Death at 6:14" - 7" vinyl single

Signings

 

Mastodon - Disc-Go-Round Records - Corpus Christi, Texas

Brad (featuring Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard) - Easy Street - Seattle

Garbage - Waterloo Records - Austin, Texas

 

 

 

 

Stores in WA

The Business Anacortes, WA

Silver Platters Bellevue Bellevue, WA

Avalon Music Bellingham, WA

Everyday Music Bellingham, WA

exploding planet records bremerton, WA

NOISE POLLUTION RECORDS Northbridge, WA

Phantom City Records Olympia, WA

Rainy Day Record Company Olympia, WA

78 Records Perth, WA

Fat Shan Records Perth, WA

Coog's Budget Cds and Tapes Port Angeles, WA

Quimper Sound Port Townsend, WA

Something Groovy Prosser, WA

Another Record Store Seattle, WA

B-Side Music Seattle, WA

Bop Street Records Seattle, WA

Easy Street - Queen Anne Seattle, WA

Easy Street - West Seattle Seattle, WA VI

Everyday Music Seattle, WA

Georgetown Records Seattle, WA

gruv seattle, WA

Holy Cow Records Seattle, WA

Jive Time Records Seattle, WA

Neptune Music Company Seattle, WA

Platinum Records Seattle, WA

Porchlight Seattle, WA

Porchlight Records Seattle, WA

Radar Hair & Records Seattle, WA

Rubato Records Seattle, WA

Satisfaction Records & CDs Seattle, WA

Silver Platters Northgate Seattle, WA

Silver Platters Queen Anne Seattle, WA

Sonic Boom Records Seattle, WA

Swerve seattle, WA

Wall of Sound Seattle, WA

Zion's Gate Records seattle, WA

4000 Holes Spokane, WA

ABCDs (All The BEST CDs) Spokane, WA

RECORDED MEMORIES Spokane, WA

Unified Groove Merchants Spokane, WA

Disc Connection Records Tacoma, WA

Hi-Voltage Records Tacoma, WA

House of records tacoma, WA

Rocket Records Tacoma, WA

CD EXCHANGE OF WALLA WALLA Walla Walla, WA

Hot Poop Walla Walla, WA

off the record yakima, WA

 

Good To Die is Good TO Go!!

 

Bravo to Nik and his hard work.  The guy has one hellofa roster of asskicking heavy bands!  This was a great write up in The Stranger.

 

 

The Godfather

Thanks to Nik Christofferson, Seattle's Music Scene Is Heavy Again

by MEGAN SELING

 

 

 

 

NIK CHRISTOFFERSON Seattle’s top heavy-rock facilitator.

 

 

"I talk a lot of shit [on the internet]," laughs Nik Christofferson, the 31-year-old founder of Seattle's Good to Die Records. He takes a swig from the pint of beer he's been nursing for the last 20 minutes and flashes a telling grin. "I've gotten in trouble so many times. I've probably alienated every other blogger in town."

 

But it doesn't seem possible when you first meet him. Christofferson is mild mannered—polite, maybe even a little shy—talking quietly from behind the brim of his baseball cap. He speaks about how he likes Pearl Jam and baseball (the former earning him a good amount of flak from his friends). He grew up in Everett, didn't start going to shows until he was 18 ("It was a parents thing"), and politely chuckles at jokes. But he's the first to admit that he can be especially tenacious when it comes to working for and defending the bands on his record label.

 

 

Once, out of frustration for what he perceived as a lack of support for Good to Die artists, he picked a fight with Easy Street Records over Twitter (they've since made up). And whenever online commenters denigrate Good to Die bands, for better or worse, Christofferson is the first to jump to their defense.

 

His friends have called him "Papa Bear" and "Bossman." Nat Damm, the drummer of Sandrider (which released an excellent blistering-stoner-rock record on Good to Die last December), says Christofferson is the "godfather" of Seattle's heavy music scene.

 

And to think it all started with a blog.

 

In June of 2009, Christofferson started the website and music blog Seattle Rock Guy with the goal to write about the Northwest's louder side, the bands he felt weren't getting their fair share of attention as Seattle's sonic landscape started to focus more on folk rock and alt-country. He didn't have any writing experience ("I got Cs in English—you can probably tell if you read my blog"), but that didn't stop him. He used Seattle Rock Guy to focus on bands like Helms Alee, Book of Black Earth, and Brothers of the Sonic Cloth—and things got going.

 

In 2010, he started promoting shows under the same name, sticking to the same focus—the heavier, the harder, the better.

 

"When I was going to see a lot of these bands before, when the blog was young, attendance was piss-poor," says Christofferson. "You'd see a great bill with Lozen, Madraso, and Android Hero or something at the Sunset, and there'd be like 20 people there."

 

Now Seattle Rock Guy showcases fill venues like the Comet, Sunset, and Blue Moon.

 

Last year, Christofferson took the next logical step (if you're crazy) and founded Good to Die Records, a label that works primarily in vinyl and digital releases, and seems to pick up where Sub Pop left off back in the 1990s, before it started signing gentler bands like Fleet Foxes and the Head and the Heart.

 

"That early Sub Pop stuff is a huge influence on what I'm doing," he admits. "I've always been a little annoyed or wondered why they went the direction that they did."

 

Good to Die is home to Monogamy Party, Sandrider, Brokaw, Dog Shredder, Absolute Monarchs, and, most recently, Deadkill. As of April 17, the label will have released five records in six months, and it's still a one-man operation.

 

"I'm just going for it," Christofferson laughs, when asked about the hectic release schedule. "The Sandrider and Absolute Monarchs records weren't going to come out if I weren't putting them out. That was the driving factor. It was like, 'I'll just put these two out so at least they're out there and I can play them myself.' It's a selfish thing."

 

For something that was so selfish, Christofferson sure did have to sacrifice a lot. First, he had to convince his wife, Tiffany, it was a good idea—thankfully, she was on board. "When Nik first mentioned the label, I immediately thought it was a cool idea, but I didn't take it too seriously because Nik has lots of ideas," she says. "I soon realized he was serious about it, and that freaked me out a little bit, but I knew Nik's passion would drive him to success."

 

The next step was taking time off work to figure out exactly how to run a record label, as he had zero business experience.

 

"That was my year of writing a business plan, which is 40 pages long and it took me forever," he laughs. "I read books, and they said that's the first thing you should do."

 

The next step was dipping into his savings and earning extra cash by DJing a couple weddings. He took his business proposal to friends and family members, a few of whom agreed to be "angel investors." He approached a couple bands (Sandrider and Absolute Monarchs were the first), and once it was a go, he named the label after one of his favorite Red Fang songs and turned his Ballard garage into an office/record warehouse/mailing room.

 

Show flyers cover just about every inch of the garage walls. A whiteboard hangs above the desk, showing the calendar of upcoming release dates and planned press. On the opposite wall, a metal shelf holds boxes and boxes of records—Monogamy Party's 10-inch Pus City, Brokaw's debut, Interiors. He starts out with about 500 of each pressing.

 

"That space right there," he says, pointing to the one empty foot of shelf space, "that's where the Deadkill 7-inch will go."

 

Since founding the label, Christofferson has also returned to work as a network administrator for a company in Sodo, so all the label work—the e-mailing, the promotion, the distribution deals—is done afterward, and it's proving to be a full-time job of its own.

 

This summer, Monogamy Party will tour the United States and Brokaw will tour Europe. Last month, Dog Shredder debuted a song on Pitchfork, bringing the label an extra dose of national attention. And recently, Christofferson got an e-mail from major label EMI, which is interested in releasing the Sandrider record overseas (they also love Absolute Monarchs, apparently).

 

Thankfully, despite all the extra work that's going into it (between the hours of 9 p.m. and 2 a.m.), the relationships he's built up (or fixed, after ruining them on Twitter) won't let him fail.

 

Tiffany helps out when­ever possi­ble—"I've recently become a master album stickerer. Also, my crafty paper-cutting skills and girlie graffiti have come in quite handy."

 

His bands have his back, too, and not just because he's releasing their records.

 

"He's had a very positive impact on the heavier music scene in the city," says Joel Schneider of Absolute Monarchs, a band that will release its full-length on Good to Die Records on April 17 (see page 39). "He has created more of a community among bands in this city that are still willing to get loud. This has made for better shows and more new bands coming up in the scene. You always know an SRG show is gonna be loud as hell, you're probably gonna get nice and drunk, and you will definitely have fun. What more could you want?"

 

Even Christofferson agrees there's been a positive change, but he's humble when it comes to whether or not he's responsible for it.

 

"I think there wasn't really a community [before]; it was fragmented," says Christofferson. "There were little groups of bands who'd play with each other, and it's totally different now. Everybody seems to be super-stoked, everybody wants to play with each other, everybody's building each other up."

 

Good to Die Records is benefiting from the scene's success, too. Sales are steady and the label has gotten a handful of positive press. "It's almost like people are more interested in the label than they are in some of the bands sometimes," Christofferson laughs.

 

"Everything that's happened, all the press it's getting—it's only been six months, but financially it's going well. It's a slow process, but you plan for that."

 

And no matter what, Christofferson assures us that he won't be changing his format, despite what music trends may do. "It's all gonna be hard rock and heavier stuff," he says. "Good to Die will not go the route of Sub Pop. I would stop doing it if that's what I needed to do to keep it going." 

 

 

For more on Good To Die Records http://www.goodtodierecords.com/

 

Sandrider is featured as BJ Shea's Loud ANd Local Band OF The Week as well!!

 

Jolene

Sit N Spin!! 

 

Top 10 Worst Songs To Have Sex To:

 

To be fair, these are my and Castle's picks from the Top 50 XOJane.com listed.

 

Get ready to lose whatever mojo you may have going on!

 

Also If you want to get out of the mood or wanna kibosh lovin' here is the playlist!!
http://kisw.tunegenie.com/u/__znjWJ0YSSKBC2kr2EE2Yg/sis-ten-worst-songs-to-have-sex-to/

 

 

 

10. CHUBWABUMBA "TUBTHUMBING"  

 

9. CARRIE UNDERWOOD "JESUS, TAKE THE WHEEL"

 

8. AEROSMITH  "DUDE (LOOKS LIKE A LADY)"

 

7. ALANIS MORISSETTE "THANK YOU"

 

6. DON HO "TINY BUBBLES"

 

5. SARAH MCLACHLAN "ANGEL"

 

4. NEL DIAMOND "SWEET CAROLINE"

 

3. ERIC CLAPTON "TEARS IN HEAVEN"

 

2. GLORIA ESTEFAN "CONGA"

 

1. TORI AMOS "SILENT ALL THESE YEARS"

 

Bonus Track!

 

EMINEM "MY NAME IS"

 

Enjoy your losing your B*%#r!!!!

 

Jolene

 

2012 Revolver Golden God Awards recap!!

 

 

For the love of all things ROCK, why doesn't VHI Classic or even Spike TV televise this???

 

REVOLVER GOLDEN GODS AWARDS: Guest Stars Highlight Metal Event 

The fourth edition of the Revolver Golden Gods Awards last night at L.A.'s Club Nokia was highlighted by a number of performances featuring special guests:

• Johnny Depp joined Marilyn Manson on guitar for half of their four song set, and Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless sang with Manson on another number.

• Alice Cooper closed Slash's set by singing "School's Out" with the band.

• Twisted Sister's Dee Snider sang "I Wanna Rock" with Black Veil Brides.

• Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Machine Head's Robb Flynn joined Trivium for Metallica's "Creeping Death."

For the second straight year, Avenged Sevenfold took home the most awards. This year they were they only multiple winner, with two -- for Best Live Band and Most Dedicated Fans. Last year they won four awards. Other winners included Nikki Sixx (Best Bassist), Slash (Riff Lord), Jinxx and Jake Pitts of Black Veil Brides (Best Guitarist, in a field made up of guitar duos). Amy Lee of Evanescence (Best Vocalist), Five Finger Death Punch's Jeremy Spencer (Best Drummer), Slipknot (Comeback of the Year), X Japan (International Band) and Korn (Album of the Year, for The Path of Totality).

Gene Simmons of KISS accepted the Golden God Award and Rush drummer Neil Peart picked up his band's Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achivement Award. Both winners had previously been announced. 

Other highlights included:

• Yngwie Malmsteen's opening solo rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner," with a Navy Honor Guard on stage. 

• Two songs from Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx's other project, Sixx A:M -- their first performance in nearly four years.

• Now-freed West Memphis Three prisoner Damien Echols' emotional introduction of Manson, who'd made an impassioned plea for their release at the Golden Gods Awards two years ago.

• A brief appearance by Aerosmith's Joe Perry to poke some fun at host Chris Jericho.

And one lowlight:

• Slash refusing to take any questions about Guns'N'Roses' Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction on the event's "black carpet," while others, including James Durbin and Alice Cooper, shared their thoughts on Axl Rose's announcement that he will refuse his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. -

 

 

Jolene

SIT N SPIN!

 

 

The Top 10 Boy Bands according to Rolling Stone Readers!!

 

 

Blame them not me!

 

 

Also if you would like to torture your coworkers or significant other, peep the playlist here!!

 

 

10. New Edition

New Edition may seem like a simple bubblegum pop act, but their legacy is very impressive. Not only did the group launch the careers of Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant and Bel Biv Devoe, their music was crucial in kickstarting the New Jack Swing sound and paved the way for New Kids on the Block and other boy bands to come in the late Eighties. "Cool It Now," one of their signature tunes, was the group's first Top 10 hit in 1985

 

 

 

9. Take That

Take That were only modestly successful in the United States, but utterly huge in their native England. Today the group is best known for launching the career of Robbie Williams, who went on to megastardom in Europe as a solo act after the group dissolved in 1996.

 

 

 

8. The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are rarely thought of as a boy band today, but they clearly set the template for the whole fresh-faced-boys-singing-innocent-tunes thing. The band scored an impressive run of hits in the early Sixties utilizing their signature close harmonies, but they achieved greatness with Pet Sounds, the 1966 album that established them as one of the greatest and most innovative acts in the history of pop.

 

 

7. The Jonas Brothers

The Jonas Brothers are the only major boy band of the past decade. Whereas the boy bands of the Nineties focused on singing and dancing, the squeaky clean trio emphasized their chops as musicians and songwriters, bringing a touch of rock credibility to a genre that was considered inauthentic by many pop fans.

 

 

6. The Monkees

The Monkees may be rock's greatest prefab band. The group, patterned on the Beatles and assembled for a TV series, quickly developed a catalog of smash hits, including "Pleasant Valley Sunday," "Daydream Believer" and "I'm A Believer," that rivaled the music of many of the more credible acts of their day.

 

 

5. 'N Sync

'N Sync utterly dominated the pop scene of the late Nineties, scoring a string of massive hits and megaplatinum albums in just a few years and launching the career of Justin Timberlake. Timberlake's enormous success as a solo artist and actor has essentially closed the door on the possibility of a reunion, as the singer has made it clear that he has no interest in revisiting the group.

 

 

 

4. The Jackson 5

The Jackson 5 were essentially the boy band of Motown, laying the groundwork for teen-oriented R&B. The group is, of course, best known as the starting point for Michael Jackson's career, but surely girls in the Sixties and Seventies harbored crushes on his older brothers Tito, Jermaine, Jackie and Marlon.

 

 

 

3. New Kids on the Block

New Kids on the Block enjoyed massive success in the late Eighties with a string of hits including "You Got It (The Right Stuff)," "Please Don't Go Girl," "Hangin' Tough" and "Step by Step." They may not be kids anymore, but they're still huge today, regularly packing arenas as NKOTBSB, a merger with the Backstreet Boys.

 

 

 

2. The Beatles

The Beatles set the template for many of the conventions of pop music, including the boy band. Though the Fab Four is best known today as one of the most innovative and visionary acts in the history of rock, they started off as mop-topped teen idols with four distinct personalities that could appeal to different types of girls.

 

 

 

1. Backstreet Boys

Backstreet Boys may be the most iconic boy band, at least in the sense that if you asked anyone on the street to describe one, you'd basically get something closely resembling them. The five-piece scored several huge hits, but their 1999 smash "I Want It That Way" is a genre-transcending classic.

 

 

 

Thanks as always for tolerating Sit N Spin!!

 

Jolene

 

Black Sabbath to do LOLLA???

 

 

CHICAGO (CBS) — The official Lollapalooza lineup will not be released until Wednesday, but what claims to be a leaked lineup went viral on the Web over the weekend.

 

Without making any claims about its authenticity, the blog “Pretty Much Amazing” published a photo image of a “pretty convincing Lollapalooza internal memo.”

 

The acts on the list include the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Black Keys, Black Sabbath, Jack White, and Florence + the Machine. Also on the list are the Shins, Justice, Passion Pit, the Weeknd, Sigur Ros, M83, Franz Ferdinand, and local favorites J.C. Brooks & the Uptown Sound, among others.

 

“Pretty Much Amazing” concedes that the leaked list is “pure speculation.”

 

 

A spokeswoman for C3 Productions, the company behind Lollapalooza, did not immediately return a call for comment.

Ahh Seattle Rock Day!!

 

 

This was so great!  There is never enough time to play everyone, so tune in to Loud And Local Sunday at 11pm for my rollover special!

 

 

So a Rockaholic named Eric Glass gave me the ok to post his Seattle Music history....one of many but I sure got a kick out of it.  Thanks Eric!

 

 

Just thought I’d share some of my Seattle Music history.

 

1992 : I worked at a public storage facility in Olympia where bands used to rent storage space to practice. One day I heard Metallica’s – Seek & Destroy being played by a band. I walked down to the unit to see Nirvana playing a Metallica cover.

 

1992 : I went to see Tad and Coven play in Bremerton.

 

1992-1993 : I went to see Nirvana play at the Olympia Capitol Theater’s back room.

 

1993 : I saw Panic play a show in Seattle with Sanctury at the time Sanctuary was changing their name to Nevermore. The show was called “Sanctuary is Nevermore”.

 

1994 : I went to see White Zombie and Sepultura play at The Moore. Candle Box was the opening act.

 

1998 : I dated a girl in Olympia that was next door neighbors with Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill. My g/f said she was the WORST and LOUDEST neighbor EVER!

 

1999 : I went to a bar in Olympia (The Eastside Club) to see a local band called The Dirty Birds (which is an AWESOME local Olympia band). They opened their set with The Witch by The Sonics.

 

2002 : My friend Scott Swayze (guitarist for The Dirty Birds) flew to New York to go on tour with Modest Mouse to fill in on guitar.

 

 

Thanks again for a great night everyone!

Jolene

 

SIS Some of our fav NW songs!!

 

 

So to get you primed for KISW's 2nd Annual Seattle Rock Day I proposed the guys give me some of their all time favorite PNW songs!!

 

If you haven't gotten the downlow on our Seattle Rock Day on Thursday get the deets yo!

 

http://www.kisw.com/pages/12679694.php

 

 

Check out a playlist of all the songs featured today!

http://kisw.tunegenie.com/u/__znjWJ0YSSKBC2kr2EE2Yg/sit-n-spin-our-fav-nw-songs/

 

 

THRILL'S PICS:

 

"CHLOE DANCER/CROWN OF THORNS" MOTHER LOVE BONE

 

"FLOWER" SOUNDGARDEN

 

 

MILES'S PICS:

 

"DOLLY DAGGER" JIMI HENDRIX

 

"NUTSHELL" ALICE IN CHAINS"

 

 

BEN'S PICS:

 

"DRAIN YOU" NIRVANA

 

"BARRACUDA" HEART

 

 

TED'S PICS:

 

"STARDOG CHAMPION" MOTHER LOVE BONE

 

"SLAVES AND BULLDOZERS" SOUNDGARDEN

 

 

JOLENE'S PICS"

 

"THE WITCH" THE SONICS

 

"NEARLY LOST YOU" SCREAMING TREES

 

 

What friggin fun!  Can't wait for Thursday KISW'S 2nd Annual Seattle Rock Day!!

 

 

Jolene 

I love Cheezeburger!!!!!!!

 

 

Burger King Cheeseburger Eye Makeup

 

BY RUSTY BLAZENHOFF ON APRIL 2, 2012

 

 

This advertisement for Burger King Netherlands gives a “tasty look” tip to fashion your eye makeup to like a cheeseburger.