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posted by January 17 at 12:52 PM
onThe new Stranger column to watch—if you care about music—is Eric Grandy’s Fucking In the Streets, which made its debut in last week’s issue. The first installment was full of wild predictions (“I’ll probably regret saying this, but what the hell—Feral Children are the next Modest Mouse”), news (“Seattle’s venerable (or is that venereal?) den of after-hours iniquity Egg Room closed this weekend without so much as one last blowout party”), rumors (the “popular hiphop weekly, Stop Biting, is rumored to be moving to Thursdays at the Baltic Room in the not-too-distant future”), a report on the atmosphere at a benefit featuring James Mercer of the Shins (“Nothing injects a crowd with quiet sobriety quite like the specter of muscular dystrophy”), plus updates on a whole bunch of other stuff including Jeremy Cooper, Rags2Riches, the Bus Stop, a new DJ night at Sugar, and the elusive Cafe Un-American, and a blind item about a “coked-up fight” involving a local record store employee and some new wave LPs.
That was the first week. We haven’t had a music news column this plugged in for years. What’s coming in this week’s F.I.T.S.? The scuffle at Neumo’s last Friday, things you would never expect at the Comet are happening at the Comet, spring programming changes at Chop Suey, Clayton Vomero’s upcoming tour as DJ Pretty Titty, a not-yet-named electronica night starting in April “uniting Decibel, Fourthcity, Simply Shameless, and Electrosect for a two-room, 18+ night that may regularly run as late as 4:00 am…”), and more…
How does Grandy, like, know all this? His answer: “In the years that I’ve spent DJing and putting on shows and going out to bars I’ve accumulated a bunch of connections who keep me filled in.” He grew up on the Eastside and used to go to all-ages shows at Redmond’s Old Firehouse as a teenager. Then he worked there for 5 years. Then he went to college in Olympia, interned at K Records, volunteered at Yo Yo a Go Go, moved to Seattle and put on house shows (Japanther, Thrones, Fast Forward, Tussle, Yellow Swans, Secret Mommy, Shoplifting, Doomsday 1999, Wrangler Brutes, Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death, and others), and in 2003 started DJing under the moniker Fucking in the Streets—a reference to the MC5’s batshit political wing, the White Panther Party.
He became a full-time Stranger music staff writer two weeks ago.
AND! More music staff news will be announced later today. Stay tuned…
Comments
The Egg Room closed?
Need details.
Does this one realize that there are other neighborhoods outside of Capitol Hill where is music is played?
The Liquor Board (and apparently the Seattle PI) found out about 'em, was threatening a surprise inspection, and the people running the place wisely decided to close shop before things got too hot.
I do indeed. Keep an eye out for me in Georgetown this Saturday.
Thanks Eric. I guess it was only a matter of time.
yo yo a go go volunteers, holla!
Aw shit, Yo Yo a Go Go was so fucking fun! Total icing on my Oly cake. The 2001 Microphones performance was mind-blowing.
does anyone else thing Grandy and Frizzelle need to just fuck already and stop this constant Slog backscratching fiasco? how many posts is this now where one or the other are addressing each other?
Eric, congrats on your first column. I found it entertaining and informative.
Nice work buddy.
Definitely a plus for the Stranger's music section. Congrats, Eric. :D
i thought eric's first column was great. well-written, informative, and just gossip-y enough. i look forward to what looks to be a bright future.
this ass-kissing, back-slapping post from christopher, however, makes me want to puke. come on, dude. let the work speak for itself.
fucking in the streets is a worthy successor to it's my party. finally.
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