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Review Revue: Tater Totz - Sgt. Shonen’s Exploding Plastic Eastman Band Request Mono Stereo

By Levi Fuller | Published: December 13, 2012

From last week’s Spud War, we continue our tuberous theme with Tater Totz, which you might think would be even more contentious than Devo’s synth-heavy fifth album, but which seems to have been more well received at KCMU. What is the deal with Tater Totz? I think just attempting to explain this project would takeRead more...

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Review Revue: Devo - Oh, No! It’s Devo!

By Levi Fuller | Published: December 6, 2012

1980s KCMU veterans probably remember the Spud Wars of 1982 with crystal clarity. On the occasion of the release of the fifth studio album (and the fifth in as many years) from synth-weirdos Devo, the gang were starkly divided in its reaction. Many seemed to feel that the group had worn out its welcome, havingRead more...

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Review Revue: Psychic TV - Towards Thee Infinite Beat

By Levi Fuller | Published: November 29, 2012

Man, I kinda screwed this one up. I’ve been holding on to this here jpeg for a while, and a couple weeks ago I completely missed an opportunity to write about Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s much-loved, long-lived band Psychic TV just before their live show here in Seattle. I could have actually had a timely postRead more...

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Review Revue: Tommy Keene - Back Again (Try...)

By Levi Fuller | Published: November 15, 2012

Tommy Keene had all the makings of an ’80s new wave pop star. He had the songwriting chops and the crisp production (courtesy, on this EP, of T-Bone Burnett and Don Dixon), he had the mainstream critical acclaim and college radio success, and he had the clean-cut good looks. But despite a string of well-receivedRead more...

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Review Revue: Bryan Ferry - Boys & Girls

By Levi Fuller | Published: October 25, 2012

Bryan Ferry is one of the most prolific and popular artists I’ve barely ever listened to. Between his work with the sexy arty pop band Roxy Music and his still active sexy solo career, he’s released more than twenty sexy studio albums over the past forty-plus years (and has a new one, The Jazz Age,Read more...

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Review Revue: Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription

By Levi Fuller | Published: October 18, 2012

Spacemen 3, formed thirty years ago and disbanded over twenty years ago, is one of those hallowed bands of the indie rock pantheon whose catalog can be somewhat intimidating to approach if you never got around to it at the time. Although they existed as a band for a relatively short time, they released fourRead more...

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Review Revue: Specimen - Batastrophe

By Levi Fuller | Published: October 11, 2012

I spent a little time in my youth hanging out with people who identified as goth. I never really got completely into the scene, but I did enjoy going to some of their dance nights at a local club and smoking their clove cigarettes. If I had paid a little more attention to goth culture,Read more...

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Review Revue: Tex and the Horseheads

By Levi Fuller | Published: October 4, 2012

OK, so I was wrong about Bossanova. We’re now somewhere in between 100 and 200 on the countdown of the best albums of the past 40 years, and the Pixies have three albums on the list so far, including Bossanova and the perhaps even less beloved Trompe Le Monde. Since we haven’t seen Surfer RosaRead more...

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Review Revue: Pixies - Bossanova

By Levi Fuller | Published: September 27, 2012

As you are no doubt aware, KEXP will soon be sharing with the world the best albums of the past 40 years as voted on by its wonderful listeners. I have no doubt that there will be an album or two by the Pixies in the mix, but I’m pretty confident that Bossanova will notRead more...

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Review Revue: Tenko - Slope

By Levi Fuller | Published: September 20, 2012

This is so cool! I grabbed this record off the shelves due to its mysterious, provocative cover, not having any idea that it contained some of my very favorite musicians of the late eighties NYC/Knitting Factory/weirdo/improv music scene. Fred Frith (previously covered here), Zeena Parkins, Arto Lindsay, Wayne Horvitz (now one of Seattle’s leading musicalRead more...

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