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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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I'm shamelessly trying to drive up traffic at my Seattle P.I. music blog. Read the rest of this post there.