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Concert Comic: Jib Kidder

Suzette "the Intern" Smith — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:58:33 -0700

Los Angeles artist Jib Kidder—AKA Sean Schuster-Craig, AKA Southern hiphop mixtape anthologist Kid Slizzard—played at Holocene this past Monday with Julia Holter . I felt very "who's that?" about him before the show but now I think he's someone to watch.

All of my friends with ADHD liked him a lot. Also, his back catalog is HUGE.

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Parenthetical Girls' "Sympathy For Spastics"

Suzette "the Intern" Smith — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:56:42 -0700

Much like his predecessor, Britney Spears, Zac Pennington is a born ringleader. He calls the shots. He makes it hot. He wears gold tights.
Unlike B. Spears, Pennington's Parenthetical Girls seem to be in a constant state of ascension, each of their 12" EP Privilege series being better than the last. I am enamored of the latest Privilege pt. IV: Sympathy For Spastics for its varied pop arrangements on class, sexual politics and entitlement.

Pennington is the only songwriter I know of, outside Morrissey, that writes songs from the perspective of imagining he's a woman, imagining he's pregnant and then imagining what everyone must think of that. The cheerful morbidity feels honest from the girls or at the very least true to their aesthetic .
In keeping with that aesthetic, Sympathy For Spastics, like its predecessors, is hand numbered in the blood of a Parenthetical Girl (IV has ghostly Amber Smith as its cover girl/donor). EEEW/COOL.

Also, of interest is the recent P Girls Kate Bush cover of "Under The Ivy." Nice work, girls.

Parenthetical Girls perform today at Backspace with Lovers and Your Rival.

Full disclosure: ZP occasionally freelances for The Mercury.

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Cloaks Are Serious!

Suzette "the Intern" Smith — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:39:56 -0700

This conversation happened a while ago. Be assured, Cloaks are stoked to play PDX Pop Now! this afternoon at 12:40.

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My Mom Says It's Still Noise!

Suzette "the Intern" Smith — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:51:58 -0700

Lords of analog modular synth/bass clarinet, Golden Retriever, play PDX Pop Now! tonight at 10:50 pm.

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