Just to finish off what Casey Catherwood started in the Stranger, AIDS Wolf is pretty off their game. The music is annoying, the stage presence is tacky and overbearing, the feathered green cape worn by the singer doesn't make a lick of sense. I saw them last night with two really fantastic local bands. Each of those two bands deserved the larger listening audiences they garnered in the dark, cavernous, yet all-ages Vera Project.
Masters and Johson are rad in a don't-tell-the-other-alt-bros-about-this-band kind of way. Seriously, keep this secret to yourself while you can.
Talbot Tagora are Seatte music. On stage, they hover and cut with distortion and reverb that sound less like grunge and more like a November windstorm inside the imploding Kingdome. The new vocal processing (which has recently debuted, I believe at Neumos?) adds a layered, agressive quality to Chris Ando's vocals. Searching, obscure, deeply (subtlety) political, indebted (terribly humble) to DIY, grunge, hardcore, pop, and the underground landscape of this great musical city. Fans of Sonic Youth, American punk, English postpunk, and especially loud NW bands like Beat Happening, need to try to watch this video all the way through.
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