New Wave Rockstar Karaoke Night!

Imaginary Karaoke in Seattle

Friday
{June 1}
at Chop Suey

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!

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Saddle Creek

The Bright Eyes news I've been waiting for: new album and shows in 2011

{Photo by Etching A. Sketch from the Imaginary Flickr Photo Pool}

It's been a while since the last Conor Oberst release ("a while" by Conor Oberst standards). So, for the past year I've lived in fear that there was a new album, tour, or collaboration announced and I didn't know about it. Now I know he was working on a new album with all that time (although I did have a neat daydream that he was spending his time under the radar working retail in a Brooklyn boutique).

Looks like all that holding of my breath and lighting candles has finally paid off in the most St. Valentine's season of ways. It was announced this morning on ConorOberst.com that Bright Eyes will release their seventh studio album on February 15, 2011 on Saddle Creek Records.

The album, entitled The People's Key, was recorded in Omaha and produced by legendary Bright Eyes co-conspirator wizard Mike Mogis. To mark the release of the album, Conor and co will perform two shows:

- Radio City Music Hall in New York City on March 9, 2011
(Pre-Sale Begins: December 1 at 12PM EST. Public On-Sale: December 4 at 10AM EST)

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

by imaginary liz

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Latest comment by: Anonymous: "Shell Games is boring, Haile Selassie is the top track for me... This album is far more religious, lyrics wise, than any before but has a new sound for Bright Eyes, they tried to go for a more modern approach on this cd."

Interviews

Interview with Matt Maginn of Cursive

After suggesting we go through Tim Kasher’s email in the basement of Neumo's, we sat down with The Three Amigos playing on VHS in the background to talk about the new album, the tour, and nature of all things Cursive.

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Saturday, June 27, 2009

by Chelsea Werner

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Record review

Tokyo Police Club — Elephant Shell

The songs are strangely sparse with enough room for fast, dancey drumbeats and a perfect equation consisting of crunchy guitar riff, driving bassline, and bright electronic keyboards.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

by Diana Salier

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Latest comment by: Jon Harthun: "I absolutely love this album. So fun! I'm a little envious. I told their promoters I'd do a write up on here and then forgot to get to it. Regardless, we essentially would've said the same things, generally speaking."

"Agenda Suicide" by The Faint

I'll be the first to admit that if you're going to let your personal philosophy take cues from popular music, it's probably best to let folks like Billy Bragg or The Clash set the agenda rather than The Faint.

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Sunday, March 30, 2008

by Matt Schild

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I've been counting down to Feb 15th 2008 for a while now

Now that we're passed that scary time and you've made it though your 27th year safe and sound, I can openly admit that for years know I've been a bit fearful that you would fall prey to oddly coincidental 27 club.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

by imaginary liz

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Latest comment by: Imaginary Kiku: "That would be a seriously jinxed band name!"

The good / bad news: Tokyo Police Club album and tour

Tokyo Police Club are ready to release their full length debut titled Elephant Shell. It's set to be relased in late April by Saddle Creek. And then there's bad news...

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

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Tokyo Police Club sign to Saddle Creek

They celebrated with a show in Omaha last night, and are continuing on a pretty massive US tour for the rest of the summer and into the autumn.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

by imaginary dana

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I made love, in handcuffs, so what?

Conor and co performed my favorite song from the new album (Cassadaga) - "Hot Knives." Just like when they perform in glorious music halls on the recent tour, the entire band was decked out in majestic white.

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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

by imaginary liz

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Latest comment by: imaginary liz: "Does anyone else think it is kinda cute how this video is of someone filming the TV, not of the VCR tape of it? It reminds me of when I was little I would tape TV shows (like vintage SNL skits) and live concert VCR tapes on cassette tape and listen to them over ...