We’re opening for Swervedriver and Hawkeye on 4/4/12 at Neumos. Swervedriver are a long time favorite of ours and we were totally psyched that we were asked to play with them. You can buy tickets here
Stag @ Studio X
Stag In The Studio
Stag is back in the studio next week to cut vocals and put the last few touches on the new songs before mixing.
STUDIO 66 Feb 4th @ Lo-Fi
Come see Stag’s last show for a couple of months until we finish our new record. These shows Chris Porter puts on are always a blast. Don’t miss it!
STAG EP III
Basics finished @ Soundhouse with Jack Endino over the weekend. Figuring out when we are going to cut vocals and mix. It’s sounding great so far.
Dig Me Out – Podcast
I recently did an interview for the 90’s music podcast Dig Me Out about my old band Alcohol Funnycar, our final album Weasels and a little bit about Stag. You can check out the podcast and a full length interview with me here.
Stag Single Best Seattle Release of 2011?
The Seattle Weekly mentioned Stag’s single Don’t Lead With Your Heart as a possible contender for best Seattle record of 2011. You can give your support over at the Weekly’s music blog Reverb. Check it out here
Rock & Roll Circus #6
SWEETWATER, STAG, NINE50NINE @ Neumos 11/18/11
Jack Endino On the State of Seattle Music
http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/10/18/jack-endino-explains-collapse-board-post-did-not-write-grunge-is-dead
Housekeeping / Shit Talk / Mailbag Jack Endino Explains Collapse Board Post, Did not Write Grunge is Dead
Posted by Grant Brissey on Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:35 AM
You may or may not have seen Endino’s article, posted at Collapse Board (and subsequently printed in Seattle Weekly‘s Reverb monthly), a site co-run by former Stranger Music Editor Everett True.
The Akimbo show review he refers to is here:
Akimbo, Grenades, Bitches Crystal
(Comet) In a recent cranky blog post, Jack Endino read a batch of local music reviews and surmised, “Grunge is dead… but everything else sounds like it’s on life support.” You’re only half right, Mr. Endino. Grunge is dead. It shouldn’t surprise you, since you made that declaration the title of your book in 2009. But to say the rest of the Northwest music scene is on life support is bullshit. Akimbo have been slaying eardrums for more than 10 years, and they’ll do so again tonight with two more hard and heavy bands: Grenades and Bitches Crystal. So I suggest you hit up this show, Jack. It may not take you back to grunge’s golden age (these days, flannel is more appropriate for the campfire rock scene), but it sure as fuck will prove that the heavy shit is alive and doing more than well. MEGAN SELING
Endino’s response:
To Megan Seling… Endino here. You malign me slightly (Grunge Is Dead was Greg Prato’s book, not mine), and I think you missed my point: My “cranky blog post,” mentioned in your Akimbo show preview, was actually lampooning the Weekly’s music reviews and their writing style, as well as the fact that, from what they CHOSE to review in their first issue of Reverb, you wouldn’t know there was ANY rock left in this town! I was surprised when they asked if they could reprint it. I told them OK, as long as their reviewers stop using the word “elegiac.”
I know perfectly well there’s rock here, cuz that’s what comes in the doors of my studio every day, even though sometimes it seems like it’s invisible! I love Akimbo, BTW, and the Lesbian show at the Funhouse was killer [the other] night. I could go on, and on. (Check out Stag.) Plenty of rock in this town, it just gets no respect, and not much local indy-label love either. Keep covering the rock; someone’s gotta.
JE