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Saturday Night: Laura Musselman's Photos of Fleet Foxes, Cave Singers, The Long Winters at Solo Bar

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Robin Pecknold, Fleet Foxes.
The opening party for Laura Musselman's "Give Me a Moment," is at 8 p.m., Saturday at Solo Bar in Lower Queen Anne.
​After several years of traveling around the Midwest in pursuit of Barusk bands like The Long Winters and Death Cab for Cutie, Laura Musselman finally decided to cut to the chase and re-locate in 2006. "I took my camera every time I went to a show in Seattle," she says. "I took lots of horrible pictures."

By the time we found her the following year at an in-store performance at Easy Street — where she was then employed — she'd just started getting serious and bought her first SLR. Our camera malfunctioned, and we tapped this enthusiastic, trigger-happy shooter on the shoulder. Might you be interested in lending a few pictures our direction?

It's been nearly three years and Musselman has not only avoided burnout, but her pictures — frequently as often as three and four nights a week — have only gotten sharper, and more original. She's chronicled the rise of local do-gooders Fleet Foxes, captured her heroes in Pearl Jam recently at KeyArena, and developed a crush on Elvis Perkins.

Go have a drink with her tomorrow night. And if you can't make it tomorrow, be sure to stop in and see her work by the end of the month.

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Flickr Photo of the Day: Dirty Projectors at Neumos

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Bobby McHugh via Seattle Weekly's Flickr Pool
Dirty Projectors, featuring bassist Nat Baldwin, played Neumos on Wednesday, November 4.

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Questions for Shawn Kock: High School, Slayer, and Bad Music for Bad People

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Jenny Jimenez
Photo & Questions by Jenny Jimenez

Name: Shawn Kock

Found: Playing guitar for the Absolute Monarchs at a Halloween house party in Magnolia.

Favorite Albums/Bands: Let them Eat by the Monorchid, Night Club by the Yummy Fur, and Bad Music for Bad People by The Cramps

Albums currently listening to: The Spits, Buju Banton, Capleton

First show he attended: All local Sioux Falls, Idaho bands at a garage show in 1992

Last show he attended: Brothers of the Sonic Cloth last month at the Comet

What he listened to in high school: Lots of Minor Threat, Gorilla Biscuits, and Slayer

On what influenced him to become a musician: Listening to records with my dad, like Kiss, Black Sabbath, Queen... stuff like that. I wasn't good at sports. I started playing acoustic guitar at age 12 when I found a Hohner at a garage sale and borrowed the money to buy it from my mom. When I was 14, I babysat my little sister for an entire summer so I could get enough money for an electric guitar and amp. I eventually hocked it for a more metal guitar; a silver crackle Ibanez.

The Absolute Monarchs play the Wild Rose on November 28th.

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Photos: Mad Rad, Champagne Champagne, and Friends at the War Room

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Justin Dylan Renney
Mad Rad played the War Room on Friday, October 30, with Champagne Champagne. Lots more photos on the way.

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Photos: The Redwood Plan, and Other Treasures Uncovered on Easy Street

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The Redwood Plan at a Reverb-sponsored in-store performance, Friday night, at Easy Street Records in Queen Anne.
​Plus, look what else turned up when I was snooping around ...

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Photos: The Sounds at The Showbox

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Katrina Herzog
The Sounds played Showbox at the Market on Tuesday, October 27.

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Photos: Ken Stringfellow's The Disciplines at The Comet

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Laura Musselman
The Disciplines — featuring Ken Stringfellow of The Posies fame — played The Comet Tavern on Saturday, October 24.

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Photos: DJ Headline (Vili Fualaau) Spins at Dante's While Wife/Former Teacher Mary Kay Letourneau Lets Loose in Her Wild Things Costume

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Justin Dylan Renney
Watch a slideshow of DJ Headline — Vili Fualaau — spinning at Dante's on Friday, October 23. His wife—Mary Kay Letourneau—came dressed as Max from Where the Wild Things Are.
​Mary Kay Letourneau supported her former student — current husband — Vili Fualaau (DJ Headline) at Dante's, Friday night, in the U-District. Letourneau was all grins, dressed as Max from Where the Wild Things Are, posing for photos with other club goers.

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Elliott Smith Died Six Years Ago Today

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Alex Crick, via Seattle Weekly's Flickr Pool
​Local photog and Seattle Weekly Flickr Pool contributor Alex Crick added this image he took of Elliott Smith when he played Moe in the mid-'90s with his band Heatmiser. Figure 8 is still my favorite Elliott Smith album. I know that puts me in the minority, but I'm a sucker for "Son of Sam," "Everything Means Nothing to Me" and all the rest. RIP, Mr. Smith.

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Flickr Photos of the Day: Finn Riggins at Blue Moon

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Behemoth Photos, via Flickr
Boise's Finn Riggins played Blue Moon on Friday, October 16. Please contribute your own music and Seattle photos to our Flick Pool, and we'll consider them for Reverb, the Daily Weekly, and Voracious.

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Photos: Moby + Live Band Play Showbox SoDo on a School Night

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Justin Dylan Renney
Watch a slideshow of Moby at Showbox SoDo on Sunday, October 18.

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Photos: Grizzly Bear at The Moore

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Laura Musselman
Watch a slideshow of Grizzly Bear at The Moore Theatre on Friday, October 16, supporting the band's latest release, Veckatimest.

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Also Tonight: Damien Jurado, Amy Blaschke, and 10 Years of Music Photos From Jenny Jimenez

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Jenny Jimenez
Sleater-Kinney, at Portland's Kennedy School. Watch a slideshow of some of Jenny's favorite photos from the last decade.
​Like Michael Alan Goldberg pointed out in this week's issue, Jenny Jimenez — the brain behind the lens behind the Seattle People slideshows — is showing off a decade of music photography tonight at West Seattle's Skylark. She'll be joined by musical guests Damien Jurado and Amy Blaschke. The party starts at 6 p.m. The show, Show Me Your TIFFS, runs through December 14. Get their early and beg Jimenez to join Blaschke for some Night Canopy tunes.

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Photos: Monotonix Tear It Up ... Again!

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Laura Musselman
Monotonix played Neumos on Saturday, September 19.
​This weekend was a filled with tons of great show options, leaving Neumos only about half-full for the circus Monotonix always brings to town. As expected, there was crowd-surfing, moshing, dancing in windows, throwing garbage cans around like beach balls, and all-around mayhem. There were almost as many photographers and videographers as there were fans. The mosh pit was a massive semi-circle crowded around the band who played in front of the stage, with people taking turns moshing up front, dancing in the back, crowd-surfing, or watching from the balcony with drinks.

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More Photos of the Slice

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Laura Musselman
John Vanderslice showing off his pinball skills at Shorty's in Belltown

Indie singer-songwriter John Vanderslice was in town last night and played a fun show at the crocodile. You might have read something about that already. Check out more photos from Laura Musselman of the Slice below.

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