STG Announces Fleet Foxes and More

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the following concerts going on sale this week.

Fleet Foxes

Special Guest: The Walkmen
Date: September 6 & 7, 2011 @ 7:30pm
Venue: Paramount Theatre (All Ages)
Price: $34.00, not including applicable fees
Seating: September 6 - Reserved Seating; September 7 - General Admission (Flat Floor) & Reserved Seating (in Balcony)
On Sale: Saturday, June 25th @ 10am
Ticketing Information: Available online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

Hey, my name's Robin and I'm a singer in and songwriter for Fleet Foxes, here to write the promotional biography meant to accompany and explain Helplessness Blues. I'm just going to write down some thoughts I have about the album and give you some context. Let's do this. So, for a bit of background: we're from Seattle, and the members of the band are me, Skye Skjelset, Josh Tillman, Casey Wescott, Christian Wargo, and now our buddy Morgan Henderson, who helped out on the album and will join the band on tour. The band began as just me and Skye in Junior High, playing songs in his bedroom, until we moved to Seattle, settled on a name, and began meeting other musicians and playing with different people until we met all the guys currently on board. Casey joined in 2005, Christian in 2007, and Josh joined shortly before our first album was released, but after we'd recorded it. So, that's some background information. Good luck working that into something intriguing. We released our first album in 2008, had a lot of unexpected support from people and the press and we ended up on tour until October of 2009 (we'd expected to do one or two U.S. tours and hoped to start our next album in the Fall of 2008!). I think this music draws influence and inspiration from popular music and folk rock of the mid '60s to the early '70s, folks like Peter Paul & Mary, John Jacob Niles, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Neil Young, CSN, Judee Sill, Ennio Morricone, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Zombies, SMiLE-era BrIan Wilson, Roy Harper, Van Morrison, John Fahey, Robbie Basho, The Trees Community, Duncan Browne, the Electric Prunes, Trees, Pete Seeger, and Sagittarius, among many others. I'd say it's a synthesis of folk rock, traditional folk, & psychedelic pop, with an emphasis on group vocal harmonies. Astral Weeks was a big inspiration on this album, if not always in sound then in approach. The raw emotion in Van Morrison's vocals and the trance-like nature of the arrangements were very inspiring for this album!

 

The Album Leaf
Date: September 18, 2011 @ 9:00pm
Venue: The Crocodile (21 & Over)
Price: $13.00 in advance, $15.00 day of show, not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission
On Sale: Friday, June 24th @ 10am
Ticketing Information: Available online at TheCrocodile.com. More information can be found at STGPresents.org.

A 10-year anniversary is a time to reflect. In a relationship, it's a chance to recount the first date; to remember the awkward pauses and the eventual connection. For musicians, a 10-year anniversary is a time to look back on their first album and see how far they've come from those earliest recordings. The new Album Leaf album A Chorus of Storytellers, marks the first decade for the group led by Jimmy LaValle. In those 10 years, LaValle has gone from initial improvised home recordings to now five complete studio albums, from opening slots to leading an incredible world-touring band to the stage at Red Rocks, headlining the Metamorphose festival in Japan and performing at the Hollywood Bowl with the Incredible String Band. LaValle's well-earned reputation as a crafter of impeccable sonic imagery even led to a critically-acclaimed show at the Seattle International Film Festival where The Album Leaf performed a live score for the 1927 silent film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. The Album Leaf's debut, An Orchestrated Rise to Fall, was recorded by LaValle and a friend in his bedroom, and though it launched his ethereal dreamscape sound, the album recording quality is thin and rough. In contrast, A Chorus of Storytellers is the perfect showcase for LaValle's skill as a recording artist. The album's 11 tracks are crisp, clean, flowing and beautifully complex.

CANT
Date: October 3, 2011 @ 8:00pm
Venue: Triple Door (All Ages)
Price: $15.00, not including applicable fees
Seating: Reserved Seating
On Sale: Friday, June 24th @ 10am
Ticketing Information: Available at the Triple Door box office, online at TheTripleDoor.net, or by calling (206) 838-4333. More info can be found at STGPresents.org.

Composer Chris Taylor is set to release his first solo album under the moniker of CANT September 13 on his own Terrible Records. Dreams Come True features Taylor, who serves as bassist, vocalist and producer of Grizzly Bear, collaborating with George Lewis Jr. of Twin Shadow. Twin Shadow's critically acclaimed record Forget was recently released by Terrible Records and produced by Taylor. Taylor plans to tour in support of the album with a full band, dates to be announced shortly. Soon after finishing work on Forget Taylor and Lewis turned their attention to Dreams Come True. The pair wrote and recorded most of the material on Dreams Come True in a week and a half in a bedroom connected to what used to be Allaire Studios, where Grizzly Bear also recorded their lauded 2009 release Veckatimest. Taylor joined Grizzly Bear in 2004 after the release of their debut record. Serving as the group's producer, Taylor is a multi-instrumentalist who plays bass, clarinet, flute, saxophone and accordion in addition to contributing vocals. Taylor founded Terrible Records in mid-2009 with label partner Ethan Silverman to devote more time to working with emerging artists. He most recently worked with Dev Hynes of Blood Orange. Check out Pitchfork's preview here.

Erasure
Date: October 6, 2011 @ 8:00pm
Venue: The Neptune (1303 NE 45th St)
Price: $45.00, not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission (21+ Floor, All Ages Balcony)
On Sale: Friday, June 24th @ 10am
Ticketing Information: Available online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

Synthpop pioneers Erasure are back with Tomorrow's World, the band's first album in more than four years. The new album is out Fall 2011 and is produced by one of the UK dance scene's most exciting new talents, Frankmusik, whose remixing credits include Lady Gaga, Pet Shop Boys, Ellie Goulding, and Far East Movement and whose solo album Complete Me debuted at number 13 in the UK Albums Chart. Tomorrow's World was mixed by Rob Orton. Tomorrow's World was written in New York, London, and at Vince Clarke's cabin studio in Maine following a short break, which found Andy Bell recording and releasing his second solo album Non Stop, and Vince Clarke reuniting with former Yazoo partner Alison Moyet for a recent tour. It was recorded in Maine, London and Los Angeles between January and June 2011, with Vince using his vintage collection of analog synths for the final touch. The end result is a collection of electronic songs that sound totally contemporary and classic at the same time. All songs are written by Bell and Clarke. From Lady Gaga to La Roux, the futurist, electronic sound Erasure championed is more relevant today than ever, and once again re-charging the global music scene. The award-winning duo of Vince Clarke and Andy Bell unleashed on the nation a succession of both influential and chart-topping pop anthems. Songs like "A Little Respect", "Sometimes", "Victim Of Love", "Ship Of Fools", "Chains Of Love", "The Circus", and "Breathe," ensured a formidable presence on the singles charts complemented by five consecutive No 1 albums including "The Innocents", "Wild!", "Chorus" and the beginning of the worldwide Abba revival "Abba-esque".

Stephen Malkmus
& The Jicks
Date: October 11, 2011 @ 8:00pm
Venue: The Neptune (1303 NE 45th St)
Price: $16.00 in advance, $19.00 day of show, not including applicable fees
Seating: General Admission (21+ Floor, All Ages Balcony)
On Sale: Friday, June 24th @ 10am
Ticketing Information: Available online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

"I am not a present to be opened up and parceled out again," our man insists on "Gardenia," track seven on his new album. Ha! That's what you think, pal. From the day nigh two decades ago when the first scratchy sounds of Pavement floated in the ether above Stockton (crown jewel of California's Central Valley, the sprawling breadbasket that neither the North or the South have claimed in California's ongoing "two states" culture war; just providing some historical context that will be useful a few sentences later), the music of Stephen Malkmus has been the gift that keeps on keepin' on. Did SM not offer the eternal promise of "perfect sound forever"? Was this sly appropriation of a digital age boast for Pavement's low-bandwidth treble-kicks not a prescient example of that "irony" thing everybody talked about in the '90s? Can we then conclude that that by invoking "paralyzed dreams forever" on this album Malkmus foretells some sort of bad moon on the rise? Hell, I don't know, and I'm the omniscient narrator of this artist bio. But I will point out that much of Real Emotional Trash, his fourth 'solo' LP (this one credited with The Jicks, like his second, Pig Lib), is decidedly low-down and heavy. It could hardly be otherwise with monster drummer Janet Weiss now a full-fledged Jick, alongside bassist Joanna Bolme and guitar/keyboardist Mike Clark.

ABOUT STG:
STG is the 501 (c)(3) non-profit arts organization that operates the historic Paramount and Moore Theatres in Seattle, Washington. Our mission is to make diverse performing arts and education an integral part of our region's cultural identity while keeping these two landmark venues alive and vibrant. STG presents a variety of shows from Broadway, off-Broadway, dance and Jazz or comedy, concerts of all genres, speakers and family shows - at both historic theatres in Seattle and at venues throughout Puget Sound and Portland, Oregon.

 

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