The finest indie-rockers in town will take the stage to karaoke their hearts out as Seattle's best KJ plays the backing track. There will also be a some open spots on the schedule for lucky audience members to participate throughout the night. Join us for an evening of New Wave love and sing-alongs!
Emperor X hid a secret b-side in Seattle. Has anyone found it yet?
It takes a lot of coordination to properly release a record these days. After you spend all that time writing and recording songs, there are shows and tours followed by buckets of time needed to coordinate with blogs, radio, friends, random contacts, twitter, and facebook to let everyone know you've got a record coming out. It's a lot and is the reason that I've always thought (and feared) that the best bands rarely get to see the light of day in the avalanche of media.
Last week, Bar None released a record that did more than just the usual. Emperor X's new album, Western Teleport, is a full album release with 40 b-sides (called nodes) that are being released on the internet via a GPS scavenger hunt. I'm not sure if it's been discovered yet, but apparently a Western Teleport operative has hidden a node in Seattle and someone needs to find it to release it to the world. The full explanation is on theWestern Teleport website, which you'll need to read for yourself because this concept is so intense that I'm not sure I actually understand all the components that make it so cool.
Emperor X is the project of a former physics professor who gave up his pursuit of science to spend the last 10 years touring the country on Greyhound (he is vision impaired and can't drive) playing all ages shows and punk houses. He's honed a spectacular talent for twisting his one-man pop songs into quirky, heart-wrenching and, ultimately, sweet odes sometimes about mass transportation or the future. Because he is an acoustic guitar and port-a-mic kinda guy, there's a definite early Mountain Goats as interpreted through an Elliot Smith vibe about the latest album. With a new album and 40 b-sides, this is definitely the time to learn more about this band.
My love and I found it! I went to the UW, so I knew the location they described pretty well. I grabbed JonBHamilton and we drove over to campus to dig through the bushes in the middle of the night. It took us a while. It was well hidden. But just when I was ready to give up, Jon reached down and grabbed a tiny package and said, "I got it!". Hooray! We listened to the tape in my car on the way home. This was the first time either of us had heard of emperor x. My initial thought is that it sounds kinda like a spooky explosions in the sky... Hooray! What a fun adventure!
Yah. This track is instrumental, so it's kind of spooky and droney. It's also a pretty short track. Thankfully thepatientfox has a tape player in her car, so we were able to listen to it immediately upon discovery.
You are right, it does take a lot.
It sounds like all involved have done a really good job. I hope that it does well and that there will be more to come in the future. Thanks for the review.
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1 Thepatientfox said on October 13, 2011
2 imaginary liz said on October 13, 2011
That sounds AWESOME! Thanks so much for telling us all about it.. and finding it!!!
3 JonBHamilton said on October 13, 2011
4 ShannonF said on October 14, 2011
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