4 posts tagged “concerts”

I've seen a fair amount of shows, but if I was forced (by, say, writing a post on the topic) to pick a local band everyone owes it themselves to see, that band would be No-Fi Soul Rebellion.

A husband and wife team based out of Bellingham, No-Fi Soul Rebellion is a little bit rock and roll, a dollop of funk, a handful of punk, and just a dash of mellow to even things out. From their website:

No-Fi Soul Rebellion was conceived by Mark Heimer while living in Alaska in 2001. Frustrated by tension in the band he was in, Heimer decided to write and record music for his own band. He alleviated any and all middlemen by playing and recording every instrument (bass, guitar, drums, keyboards, and vocals) himself. Opting to go sans band for the performance front, Heimer now performs his music with his wife, Andrea Heimer. The Heimers maximize their performance aspects live, turning the lack of other band members to an advantageous situation. Andrea wields a few backing tracks housed in the Soul System and sings backup while Mark lets his thunderous spirit of performance loose on the audience with wild vocal performances, screaming bass solos and a fifty-foot mic cord that allows him to make contact with each audience member. The resulting chaos is fun, barrier breaking and sounds killer.

Let's parse this, shall we?

No-Fi Soul Rebellion is, for all intents and purposes, Mark Heimer. A genius in tight white pants, he writes, records, and performs every part of every No-Fi song. And the songs are catchy, low-slung funk bass lines and 4/4 time signatures, looping synth riffs, narrated by a voice probably better suited to shouting at a softball game than holding a melody. It's an usual mixture, but in amalgamation, magic.

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It was only yesterday that I received this call from my girlfriend:

Her: Hello!
Me: Howdy.
Her: What are you doing on October 13th?
Me: Nothing. Why? What am I doing on the 13th?
Her: How do you feel about Bob Dylan?

There's a thousand answers to that question. Here are a few: he's a grumpy munchkin with an old man's mustache, but still hipper than Jack White; he's the greatest song-writer of my and my parent's generation, and easily outclasses most of what passes for pop, folk, and rock music these days; he's written a lot of chaff that ekes by on Dylan's personality; he's a charlatan, a liar; he's a storyteller extroardinare; his show is often barely worth seeing; he's a great live act; he's going to die soon; Bob Dylan is timeless.

But what my girlfriend was actually asking though was this: How would you like to see Bob Dylan?

And to that, there is only one answer: Yes.

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This was recently emailed to S.U. Irving, ESQ. of Pomohobo:

For those who don't know, I'm an honorary member of Pomohobo, as are a number of my friends, some of whom don't play instruments. There's only one song up on Pomohobo's page right now, and it's a spoken word monologue that takes its inspiration from Van Gogh's Starry Night.

How in the world this qualifies Pomohobo for a show, I've no idea. But I'm quite happy about it.

In other musical news, I mentioned yesterday that I'll be blogging for the P.I.  This is 100% true. Here is the link: Blue Notes & Upcoming Shows.

If you know of a band I should write about let me know. I've got a kitty pool going already, but I'm always open to suggestions.

Finally, I do have a thing about Racial Profiling, but it's not done. What are you going to do? I'll post it before the week is out, of that I'm sure.

XO,
- T