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Tuesday Tease Returns!

Tuesday Tease is Seattle's only bi-monthly burlesque revue with live musical accompaniment! The show brings together the musical stylings of the Lurid Spectacles (Meg van Huygen, Tyson Lynn, Jono Green, and Jeff Meyers) and a rotating cast of Seattle's best burlesque artists and cabaret singers to create an evening of eye-popping and toe-tapping entertainment. Tuesday Tease takes place at LUCID Jazz Lounge in the U District on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in April, June, August, October and December.

This month's cast features burlesque by Sailor St. Claire, Whisper de Corvo, and Persephone Illyri with vocals by Jen Nelson. Hosted by Ace Carter.

Tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets.

HONK! Around The World! Coming to The Palladium Feb. 25th!

HONK! Around The World! Coming to The Palladium Feb. 25th!: Oh yes! Tubaluba, VamoLa, Nu Klezmer Army, Makedon and dancing! Tickets available now at Brown Paper Tickets! Continue reading →

St. Valentine's Day Happy Ending!

Blue Moon is once again taking its finery out of the locked cabinet, lighting candles, and giving their stage over to a wondrous line-up of early swing gypsy jazzers Mouce Manouche, streetrat Sinatras Velveteen Lotharios, practicing organists The Dirty Church Ladies, and the pinch of Slap and Tickle.

If you're looking for dark laughs, you simply cannot do better than Doug Stanhope. Deadbeat Hero, the hour embedded above, pokes fun at killing babies, democracy, and terrorism. And other things I'd rather not have google search attach to my name while I'm looking for a job. Plus, it was recorded live here in Seattle, so there's a nice bit of hometown flavor there too. Hit play and listen.

READER: Houdini speaks

Houdini speaks:

In this recording from 1914, Harry Houdini talks about his Water Torture Cell trick.

The audio was recorded on an Edison wax cylinder; one of six used that day by Houdini and now the only known recordings of his voice to exist.

(via ★thoughtbrain)

Tags: audio   Harry Houdini

READER: Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003): history of L.A. in film, made almost entirely from existing film footage [via] 

This will not stay up long. I'm surprised it even made it this far. Watch it now while you can.

The Psychotronics take over the Moon!

The Blue Moon, that is. We join Twitch and The Januariez for an evening of rock and roll, attitude, and general debauchery. You should join us. We might make you King of the Moon!

Blues & Bluster gets to work

Tonight Blues & Bluster gets to hustling with songs of professions, labor, and love.

Deep cuts from John Zorn/Naked City, Tom Waits, Johnny Adams, Wilbert Harrison, and so much more. It's Blues & Bluster!

Another fabulous two-hour block of the old, the wondrous, the odd, and you. Only on Hollow Earth Radio. Every Thursday from 11pm - 1am PST!

  P.S. As of today, I am unemployed. If you have any opportunities or networking possibilities, please send them my way. You'll have my great thanks and probably some baked goods. Hey, it's possible!

Blues & Bluster celebrates Summer

Blues & Bluster is in service to Summer this evening, my wonderful partner and all-around awesome woman, whose birthday is today, and whose birthweek is this week.

So tonight, all songs played will either be ones she loves (or that I think she does) or which reference summer in some way. Fer instance:







It's Blues & Bluster! Another fabulous two-hour block of the old, the wondrous, the odd, and you. Only on Hollow Earth Radio. Every Thursday from 11pm - 1am PST!

A B&B 3fer

Thanks to Mike, Drew, and my mom, Blues & Bluster last week featured these three requests back to back (to back):

•Marvin Gaye -- Whats Going On (rhythm and strings)
•PAUL ROBESON -- Ol Man River
•Public Enemy -- Fear of a Black Planet

So wonderful! Surprisingly, HER didn't have any of those in their library, so it was Youtube to the rescue, now embedded here for posterity.

Blues & Bluster Sighs Mightily

Blues & Bluster has a slight case of the melancholy sighs this week, and instead of trying to deny it, pushing it down to the flats of our feet so that we might walk all over its face, we have decided to embrace it with our long limber limbs like a scarecrow blown around a fencepost.

So phooey on this fantastic summer weather, we make our way toward Low, Antony, Nina, Neko, and maybe a roundtable discussion on the nature of the blues.

It's Blues & Bluster! Another fabulous two-hour block of the old, the wondrous, the odd, and you. Only on Hollow Earth Radio. Every Thursday from 11pm - 1am PST!

Blues & Bluster Melts Down William James

Blues & Bluster has a two-fold purpose this week, above and beyond our usual sound adventure mixmastery:

1. We say goodbye to poet William James, as he steps out of state into Oregon; and
2. We give a few sets over to the musicians of Summer Meltdown, the multi-day outdoor music and camping festival up in Darrington this weekend.

It will be a sweltering mix of poetry and long-form jam, mashed by bare feet and cooked in the sun.

It's Blues & Bluster! Another fabulous two-hour block of the old, the wondrous, the odd, and you. Only on Hollow Earth Radio. Every Thursday from 11pm - 1am PST!

Via Seattlest: Where I Live

From Seattlest:

Tyson and Summer were kind enough to give me a tour of their spacious apartment, and show me some of the adorable antique and salvaged accents they've added to this ultra-modern space.

The Long Walk Back

Cascadia by moleskin
the trails are there someone has to
put their foot down.

- Paul Nelson, from his poetical recap of The Long Walk

The King County Regional Trail System spans over 175 miles, bounded by Bothell, Auburn, Seattle, and the Cascades. It is one of the nation's largest trail networks, with paths for travel by hikers, equestrians, and walkers alike. And this past weekend, I and 50 other folks covered a not insignificant portion of them.


The brainchild of artist Susan Robb in conjunction with 4Culture, The Long Walk is many things: an reframing of time and space, a glowing love letter to our parks and trails, an experimental venue for site-specific pieces of art, and an exercise in endurance, because 50 miles is actually quite a distance when taken on foot.

Between 5:00 a.m. last Thursday at Golden Gardens and coming to a blistered rest Sunday afternoon at Snoqualmie Falls, we walkers explored Magnuson Park from beach to hangar, met the people of Duvall in a decommissioned train depot, discussed the nature of landscape by a re-purposed barn in Carnation, and tried to spot the bottom of the falls by Salish Lodge. The entire weekend was spent in engaged constitutionals, thoughtful meanders, intentional pacings.

For me—someone who does not take hikes and who had not, before this, walked more than one mile of the Burke-Gilman, even though I live in Ballard—the Walk was transformative. I did not know the extent of the trails, nor how they connected the city and the county, and I had little desire to find out. Why would I? This is why I have a truck.

Now, I'm struck by the possibility of going cross-town via tree-shaded trails, scheduling extra time to get where I'm going, devoting weekends to hikes and undirected rambles. Why wouldn't I? This is why I have a bike. Feet. Access.

And access, turns out, was a contentious word during the Walk. Articles from Josh Feit at Publicola and Mike Seely at Seattle Weekly went live Thursday and Friday, decrying the use of public funds on The Walk, especially since the group of Walkers themselves numbered only 50. What Seely and Feit seem to be most concerned by is whether a percentage of the public constitutes The Public and, if so, what that percentage should be.

Seely, in particular, seems particularly chuffed by it, calling me (not specifically or anything, just the Walkers in general) an "in-the-know urban scenester". Which is true, I guess, in that I read about The Walk in The Stranger last year and saw the open call for applicants that 4Culture put up this year. It's true in that I was familiar with and interested by the project. There is a degree, I must allow, to which the audience for this is self-selecting, but seems to me there's a saying about forest and trees that might be applicable.

Personally, I think most art is not for all people. The only difference here is that the size of the audience for this piece of art is specific and known. Your interaction with The Long Walk is my telling you about it. At least this year. But maybe what you read here will excite you in the same way I was excited when I read Jen Graves' coverage in The Stranger. Maybe next year, you'll keep an eye out for The Long Walk's call for walkers. And maybe you'll be as surprised as I was by the expanse and accessibility of these trails, their beauty and adventure, and without needing to wait for someone to lead you, you'll take off on your own.

walking up to the bicycle choir on the night of day 2 of the long walk by disconnecteddot

This post appeared first on Seattlest.

A Night of Mischief and Music

HONK! Fest West invites you to join us for a Benefit Extraordinaire! Delight to music, twitterpate to burlesque, and support the 4th Annual HONK! Fest West!

Featuring:

• Titanium Sporkestra!


• Mouce Manouche!


• Chaotic Hearts!


• Movitas Moving Orchestra!


• Purty Mouth!


• Miss Mamie Lavona The Exotic Mulatta & Her White Boy Band!

With Burlesque By:

• Boom Boom L'Roux!


• Madisun Avenue!


• Trojan Originale!


• and their announcer Ben Jammin' Esq.!

Saturday, April 16 at 8:00pm

Pre-sale tickets can be purchased today by donating $25 to our Kickstarter page.

All proceeds benefit HONK! Fest West and help us bring bands from all around the US straight to the streets of Seattle!

Little Red Studio
400 Dexter Avenue North
Seattle, WA

The Little Red Studio is an All Ages Space. Please be aware, however, that burlesque is a part of the evening's line-up, and therefore may not be appropriate for all families. If you have any questions, please contact Tyson at info@honfestwest.com.

HONK! Fest West returns to Seattle for its fourth year! A traveling festival, HONK! this year is excited to visit Georgetown on Friday, May 13; Gasworks on Saturday, May 14; and Seattle Center on Sunday, May 15th.

We are pleased to announce that we will once again be joined by hundreds of musicians from across the country and Canada. Take a look at this line-up!

• Artesian Rumble Arkestra (Olympia)
  
• BeatCrunchers (Eugene)
  
• Bolting Brassicas Marching Band (Lasqueti Island, B.C.)
  
• Bucharest Drinking Team (Seattle)
  
• The Carnival Band (Vancouver, B.C.)
  
• Chaotic Hearts (Seattle)
  
• Environmental Encroachment (Chicago)
  
• Firebrass Village Blasting Club (Phoenix, AZ)
  
• Garfield High School Bulldog Drumline (Seattle)
  
• Garfield High School Bulldog Marching Band (Seattle)
  
• HBC Brass Band (Stanford, CA)
  
• Movitas (Seattle)
  
• Orkestar Zirkonium (Seattle)
  
• Samba Ja (Eugene)
  
• Seattle Seahawks Blue Thunder Drumline (Seattle)
  
• Seattle Sounders FC Soundwave (Seattle)
  
• Soulaphone Brass Band (Missoula, MT)
  
• Titanium Sporkestra (Seattle)
  
• Tubaluba (Seattle)
  
• Vamola (Seattle)
  

HONK! Fest West is a free, three-day, community-supported music festival devoted to marching bands, drum corps, samba lines, and anything acoustic and mobile that makes a ruckus. We are also partial to street performers, dancers, and professional appreciators.

If you'd like to help support HONK!, please consider donating to our Kickstarter or contacting our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer@honkfestwest.com.

If you have any questions about HONK! Fest West, please contact Tyson at info@honkfestwest.com.

Saturday at the Underground Events Center

SUPPORT HONK!: HONK! Fest West is a free, non-profit, and community supported music festival devoted to marching bands, drum corps, samba lines, and the like. This year will be HONK!'s fourth, and even though the Festival isn't until May, the work has already begun to raise the necessary funds to cover permits, venue rentals, food for the musicians and volunteers, travel costs, and all the other line-item details that come with putting on a music festival. Not only can you contribute to their Kickstarter, but you should attend their first fundraiser this Saturday with performances by VamoLà, Tubaluba, Bucharest Drinking Team, The Garfield High School Drumline, and Orkestar Zirkonium. Drink and dance for a good cause.
Saturday 8:00 p.m. // Underground Events Center // $10 - $20 Sliding Donation

Read the rest over at Seattlest.

Support HONK! Fest West!

Some of you may know that I help organize HONK! Fest West. It's a three-day, non-profit, community-supported music festival that focuses on marching bands, drum corps, samba lines, 2nd line New Orleans Brass, and anything acoustic and mobile that can make a ruckus (we also love jugglers, magicians, dancers, and street performers of all stripes).

We are a volunteer-run festival. We draw no salary. We do it out of love for the music, the moment when the audience melts into the performers, and--of course--dancing in the streets.

This year will be the fourth time we've held HONK! in Seattle, and the first time we've run a month-long fundraising campaign through Kickstarter.

We're looking to raise $5,000 over the next 30 days. This money helps cover our permits, venue rentals, food for the musicians and volunteers, travel costs, and all the other line-item details that come with putting on a music festival. If you can, please consider supporting us. Every dollar helps. (And I wouldn't say no to you forwarding this on to others you might think interested.) Would you like to see our video? Yes? Well, good, cause I was gonna put it here anyway.



As you might imagine, putting on a festival requires help of all sorts. If you can dontate a service--food, printing, venue, transportation, and so on--or your time or work for an organization that would like to table at our event, please get in touch with me at info @ honkfestwest . com.

I am extremely excited to put this event on again in Seattle, see old friends and meet new, and--of course--dance in the streets. Hot damn do I love dancing in the streets. I hope you can come out and join me.