​Vernal Coleman reports over on the Daily Weekly that AKshun Tha Don, aka Max Gasoi, a member of the Get Money Click, was found suffering from a bullet would to the chest at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Columbia on Friday night.

SPD hasn't yet named any suspects, nor have they yet released any details on the events that led up to the shooting.

Jason Tang, via Seattle Weekly's Flickr Pool.

The Lonely Forest played The Showbox at the Market on Friday, November 27.

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Simian Mobile Disco plays Neumos tonight.

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But in case you miss it, you can check out the Q&A I conducted with the London dance duo the last time they were in town here.

--The Physics are working on a new album.
And judging by the response the boys' set received, it can't drop too soon.

--Wizdom is taking a short break from music and a longer one from booze.
Both of which sadden me, a music-loving functioning alcoholic.

--Scribes is not Ryan Lewis.
I may have written profiles of both of these guys, but that doesn't mean I can tell them apart. White kids in rap: You all look alike.

--Macklemore's jean jacket is better than yours.
I bet that thing was made by Jordache.

--Maker is a cool dude.
The producer of Grayskul's new album, Graymaker, was in town from Chi-Town and ready to chop it up about everything stupid thing that came into my head.

--The Nextdoor Neighbors were out of place at a hip-hop show.
But that doesn't mean the lo-fi electronic folk duo isn't good. Hardly. I must see, and hear, more of these girls.

--Larry Mizell, Jr., still kicks hard.
Once again, I've got the softball-sized welt on my shin bone to prove it.

--Onry Ozzborn wears leather gloves.
Why? Because he fucking can.

--JFK randomly spits Ghostface Killah lyrics in lieu of actual conversation.
Why? Because, well, lemme know if you know, because I don't.

Justin Dylan Renney

Watch a slideshow of Gwar at the King Cat Theatre on Sunday, November 29.

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Lou Reed

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what's circulating through his iPod every Monday.

​Joy Division, "Atmosphere" (Permanent): This song and this record as a whole always has held a spooky -- while beautiful -- and very honest place with me. Atmosphere is a spiritual meditation.

Kelis, "Milkshake" (Tasty): If hip-hop/urban music has a punk-rock anthem, then it would most certainly be "Milkshake". I have always really dug how sister Kelis rolls. This chick is a bad-ass!

Lou Reed, "I'm Waiting For My Man" (American Poet): I really was a late-comer to the stylings of Lou Reed and even the Velvet Underground for that matter. This Lou Reed track has lately become one of my favorite songs and will stand up to any other genre of music if you have your iPod on shuffle. That is always the test of a good and relevant track to me.

Jay Farrar, center, plays Neumos with Son Volt at Neumos on Friday, December 4.

​Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar has been reading Jack Kerouac since he was a teenager. But writing the music and lyrics for an album/soundtrack to One Fast Move Or I'm Gone, a documentary about Kerouac's Big Sur, provided plenty of firsts for the songwriter, who collaborated with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard on the project.

SW: Considering you made a whole record inspired by Big Sur, I have prepared some questions inspired by the book. You mind if I record this?

Farrar: If they're gonna be, uh, flippant, maybe it's not a good idea.

Why did you think Big Sur was worth basing an entire album on?

The overall influence of Jack Kerouac is pervasive. I saw ZZ Top a couple weeks ago, and Billy Gibbons was talking about how he was influenced by Jack Kerouac.

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David Belisle

Fleet Foxes

​-- LiveDaily: Galactic's returning to town for a gig at The Showbox on February 26. They're also playing the reopened Nightlight in Bellingham on February 24.

-- GQ: On beards and Fleet Foxes: "I aspire to be someone who doesn't shave, who lives in a comfortable sweater, cradling a warm cut of herbal tea beside a frozen lake--but I prefer my pop stars to be otherwise." (GQ is hiding this article online very well.)

-- TwentyFourBit: Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar cover Tom Waits' "Old Shoes". They've got video.

-- New York Times: I guess I shouldn't be surprised that one of the best music pieces of the year comes from Op-Ed columnist David Brooks: "Over the next few decades Springsteen would become one of the professors in my second education. In album after album he assigned a new course in my emotional curriculum."

-- Pitchfork: Well, look at that, The Strokes are not only headed back into the studio, they've lined up their first show in more than three years.. Read our interview with frontman Julian Casablancas over here.

​My very first record is hard to pin down. I think I was given the soundtrack to Star Wars, The Best of Ray Charles and the soundtrack to Fistful of Dollars all at the same time, because they all feel like first records to me. Not only do I still listen to all three quite regularly, I still have my original copies. Naturally, being around 7 years old and not exactly an audiophile yet, the sound they make when played is akin to what you hear when you pour milk on Rice Krispies.

I actually treasure that snap, crackle and pop; it sounds like part of the music now. However, the part that always makes my eyes water when I toss on Ennio Morricone's masterful soundtrack to FOD is the trumpet from the film's main title theme. Gets me every damn time. Video after the jump.

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Ennio Morricone, Music in Movies on Mondays, Ray Charles, Soundtracks, Star Wars