Wednesday 4/7 – The Big Room
Mar24
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The Big Room (508 Legion Way)
OLYMPIA, WA
Archive for March, 2009
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March 21st, 2009
Mar22
Anchor Down (pdx) joined Frankie B tonight, both to play their favorite punk songs and to promote their new EP “Steel to Dust” on Solidarity Recordings! Their picks: Alex (AH), Matt (MB) and Lucas (LA).
The Coffee Project – “Battle Scars”
The Shook Ones – “Raised By Woofs”
The Explosion – “Image of a Son”
The Marked Men – “Fortune”
Anchor Down – “Crass a Nova”
Anchor Down – “Bromancing the Stones”
The Riot Before – “Words Written Over Coffee” (MB)
Fallen From the Sky- “HS” (MB)
The Lawrence Arms – “Devil’s Taking Names” (MB)
The Thermals – “An Ear For Baby” (LA)
Monikers – “Absentees” (LA)
Drunken Boat – “Memorial Days” (LA)
Lucero – “Katherine and Me” (AH)
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros – “Johnny Appleseed” (AH)
Sleater-Kinney – “Dig Me Out” (AH)
New Found Glory – “Listen to Your Friends” (AH)
Propagandhi – “Supporting Caste” (MB)
The Coathangers – “Stomp, Stomp, Stompin’”
Anchor Down – “Never Was A Lesson Learned”
Lemuria – “Dog” (LA)
Anchor Arms – “Capital Cities” (LA)
The Shorebirds – “Highways” (AH)
Chuck Ragan – “Ole Diesel” (AH)
Get Up Kids – “A Newfound Interest in Massachusetts” (AH)
Amber Inn – “Leave With Dignity” (AH)
Ariel Mile – “Solid As Me” (LA)
Dead to Me – “Little Brother” (LA)
Bastards of Young – “Raising East 80″ (LA)
Splitzville – “Round Corners” (AH)
Rise Against – “Like The Angel” (MB)
Craig’s Brother – “Divorce” (MB)
NOFX – “Linoleum” (MB)
Braid – “Milwaukee Skyrocket” (LA)
Banner Pilot – “Wired Wrong” (LA)
For The Win – “I’m An Outsider” (LA)
Polar Bear Club – “Convinced I’m Wrong” (MB)
Rancid – “Olympia” (MB)
Value Pack – “Homesick” (MB)
Anchor Down – “El Radio”
Battleshark
Mar18
Battleshark by Jeff London (Fay Wray, King Friday)
rumored to be taken from the front page of the “Fine Arts” section of the sunday edition of the New York Times….
Jeff London’s ”Battleshark,” is a fiercely romantic, mesmerizing tour de force. His drawing is overwhelming. And the effect is one of dizzying incongruity, as if all the conventions of ordinary life had been suspended. With Jeff’s depiction, the world has palpably been turned upside down.
Even more torrid than the underwater weather of his scene, is the erotic pull that draws this battleshark epic adventure, an elegant diver who is helping to preside over the bed of the sea, to the ornate window behind which this handsome, obsessed shark hides. He longs to lure the diver away for one of the trysts that fill this haunting drawing with its intricate array of memories. ”Swoon,” battleshark whispers ardently. ”I’ll catch you.” The diver does swoon. No wonder.
”Battleshark,” a stunning feat of visual adaptation as well as a purely artistic triumph, begins long after Battleshark’s love affair has come to a terrible end. The diver of the sketch, who once pursued battleshark with such intensity, has been literally consumed by water and heat. Scarred beyond recognition, the diver stands in a bombed-out sea floor/monastery in the waning days of World War II and is tended by battleshark, posing as a luminous nurse with a noose. Jeff London’s battleshark performs near-miracles. So does Jeff’s penmanship as he weaves extravagant beauty around a central character whose condition is so grotesque…that he can only be realized as the one and only…the “true” battleshark.
March 14th, 2009
Mar15
Michael Dennis once again joined Frankie B in the studio… his picks are (MD)
Against Me – “We Laugh at Danger (And Break All The Rules)”
Dillinger Four – “A Jingle For The Product”
Off With Their Heads – “S.O.S”
Jawbreaker – “Chesterfield King”
The Legionnaires – “Off With Their Heads” (MD)
The Legionnaires – “Violent-World” (MD)
The Clash – “Straight to Hell” (MD)
The Shorebirds – “Gonna Get Ugly”
Brutal Knights – “I Do Nothing”
Fugazi – “Margin Walker”
Rancid – “If the Kids Are United” (MD)
U.S. Bombs – “Goin’ Out” (MD)
Buju Banton “Rancid” – “Misty Days” (MD)
Anchor Down – “Bromancing the Stones”
Dead to Me – “Special Professional”
Lemuria – “Hawaiian T-Shirt”
The Measure [SA] – Murderous Bugs with Giant Needles
Cockpit – “Hot Damn” (MD)
Cockpit – “Puke” (MD)
The Shuggs – “AM FM” (MD)
Old Growth – “Machine Life”
Tubers – “We Are All Very Frozen
The Shaking Hands – “Liars are for Punching”
Chris Wollard and the Ship Theives – “All The Things You Know”
Samiam – “Don’t Break Me”
J. Church – “Good Judge of Character”
Lungfish – “Kissing”
Big Black – “Texas”
Scratch Acid – “Cannibal”
Sixes – “Apocrypha”
Gorilla Biscuits – “Start Today”
Hot Water Music – “A Flight and A Crash”
Useless ID – “Isolate Me”
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – “X-Ray Style” (MD)
March 7th, 2009
Mar8
No show last week… (sick day)
This week:
Stiff Little Fingers – “Suspect Device”
Husker Du – “Powerline”
The Clash – “I’m So Bored With the USA”
Funeral Oration – “World Needs Changing”
The Ramones – “Judy is a Punk”
Cloak/Dagger – “Set The Alarm”
The Measure [SA] – “Hit the Ground Running”
Love is All – “Movie Romance”
Monikers – “80 Proof”
The Marked Men – “I Must Be Dead”
The Riot Before – “Words Written Over Coffee”
Report Suspicious Activity – “Day After Day”
Lemuria – “Lipstick”
Seam – “Berlitz”
The Ergs – “Hey Jealousy”
Chuck Ragan – “Open Up and Wail”
Drag the River – “A Way With Women”
Japanther – “$100 Cover”
The Shaking Hands – “New Reason to Rise”
O’Pioneers – “Cool Kid City”
Fake Problems – “The Dream Team”
International Espionage – “Attencion”
Street Dogs – “Tobe’s Got a Drinking Problem”
Latterman – “Mumbled Words and Ridiculous Faces”
The Lawrence Arms – “Are You There Margret? It’s Me, God”
Fugazi – “Latin Roots”
Helmet – “Bad Mood”
Embrace – “Spoke”
Leatherface – “Baked Potato”
Carbomb – “50’s Boy Lover”
Red Monkey – “Weight of Should”
American Cheesburger – “Camouflage Hairspray”
Man Afraid – “Cemetery Ridge”
I Hate Myself – “To a Husband At War”
(Young) Pioneers – “Seven Days in May”
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – “I’m a Ghost”
Paul Baribeau – “Last Time”
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – “Redemption Song”