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If you hung around Wednesday nights at the B-Side in its hayday, you probably saw Cursive Adonis on the mic. Laid back, pitcher in hand, Cursive had a voice resembling Del and the cadence to match. He played a bunch of shows around town and the northwest, tracked a bunch of songs, then moved to Seattle. Musically speaking, Cursive hasn't really been heard of since.

About once a year, Cursive's name shows up on a handbill - but he has a propinsety of not quite showing up.

On Saturday 11/29, Cursive is set to play Caterina at the Bad Penmanship 5th annual hip hop showcase with Terms, Synthetic, Drew Slums, Quiz, Jaeda and a bunch more. Hope he shows up!

Here's a few tracks:

Terms None featuring Cursive Adonis: Reality Doses

Sentence featuring Locke and Cursive Adonis: Above Water

The Spokesman Review: Irrelevant as Ever

I was sorry to hear that the 7 (the Spokesman's attempt at a weekly) cut food critic Tom Bowers a few months back.

I was even more sorry to hear that they cut longtime music writer Isamu Jordan a few weeks back.

Now that the 7's going to stop running, I'm not really too sorry.

I know, I know. Its hard to run a newspaper these days! The internets are taking away all their readers!! There's no money in publishing!!!

But I (and many like myself) now have no reason to turn to anything the Spokesman publishes. The internets have all we need. I'm not going to pay 50 cents to find occasional articles about local music/nightlife every Friday. I'd rather look in the Inlander, Out There, the Meeting Northwest, or the myspace pages of local bands/venues.

Oh well.

Loud

Shim's coming to town this weekend.

You know what you're in for?

• Loud Noises.
• Over the Top.
• Big Hair.
• Bright Lights.
• Huge Riffs.
• Jean Vests.
• Fun.

Hell yeah.

Shim with Pretty Faces and Scissors for Lefty at the BLVD on Saturday 11/22.

A Crown City Rocker

The Crown City Rockers are the nicest people in hip hop. I haven't come across a group as friendly, down to earth, funny, kindheated and super duper fresh as can be as Crown City.

Frontman Raashan Ahmad released his solo record the Push this summer. It's fantastic: choked full of b-boy swagger, sharp rhymes and soulful production.

The video for 'Peace' just dropped. I'm loving it.

Raashan Ahmad plays at the Casbah on Friday November 21.

Hockey Signs to the Majors!

Congratulations to Hockey, who have unsurprisingly signed to Capitol Records for the US releases and Virgin Records for UK releases.

Well done boys.

Sunny Days

Jeremy Enigk. Sunny Day Real Estate. I wasn't ever blown away by the importance of Diary, the proclaimed "first emo record." But I did happen to get into their final record the Rising Tide, which I still think is a beautiful rock and roll album, with Jeremy's lovely falsetto and crunchy guitar riffs blaring in my Ford Tempo on the way out to Cheney.

His new solo record moves into a lighter direction than my experience with his projects. I first heard the song Cannons on KEXP, and instantly recognized Enik's voice. A few days later I picked up the record World Waits, again full of falsetto, lush textures and tales of love.

Here's the mp3:
Jeremy Enigk - Cannons

Jeremy Enigk plays at the BLVD on Monday November 17.