The Imaginary Zine is a 60-page old school printed zine recounting our first 10 years with some of our favorite blog posts and stories from our imaginary friends. It is extemely limited with only 333 handcrafted zines made.
It also includes a cd chock full of rare, live, or exclusive songs by some of our favorite local artists, including The Long Winters, BOAT, Tullycraft, Exohxo, Tennis Pro, Math & Physics Club and many more!
DAMMIT! The Cops should not be breaking up! That's stupid and ridiculous. They have been one of my favorite Pacific NW bands, and I will go down in history as saying so.
Watching the late-but-eternal Dave Day from first-punk-band-ever The Monks watch The Cops and fall in LOVE with them as deeply as I am at a Saturday Knights show at Havana a few months ago, I never would have thought that they would throw it in.
Hire a rabid therapist like Brian Wilson or Metallica, take a big bag of weed into the studio and record a three record set, go to Jamaica and get robbed for inspiration, get blood transfusions in Sweden, WHATEVER IT TAKES, please DO NOT GIVE UP.
But please do play your Rock n' Roll Circus this week, three stupendous nights of Sunset Tavern burn down, and here are other reasons to be there every night, each and every one of us:
Thursday, 12/18: Cancer Rising opens, and this is the funkiest, most inclusive, damned intelligent language and rhythm collective this region has. (Besides another band with a mad mystic named Tilson in it.) Watch Larry and his guys chop it up and start the flow before The Cops come out and sizzle. (Also up for the night: Bad Things, Widower.)
Friday, 12/19: The Whore Moans, which combine various genres of punk vocals with intricate and aggressive playing, putting the songs first each time. They are a terror to behold and if they didn't have such a sweet sense of humor would be scary. (The Fall of Troy and Kinski are there this night too, which might mean there won't be a Sunset left the next day for...)
Saturday, 12/20: Wallpaper, whose recent album Rock Collage is a delightfully trashy, too smart, hilariously hostile, nervous wreck rave-up, with such classic songs as "Nod Off," "Bottom Top Blues," and the hit single from hell "Shag Carpet." Just them and The Cops would have been worth rebuilding the Sunset today for. (Also along is Spiral Stairs and The Sea Navy.)
Those are my picks. As I'm pretty sure other TIG writers will pick out their own bands each night, or pick which night is best for them, I'll shut up for now and get back to mourning the upcoming hiatus of The Cops after this week.
1 cameron said on December 18, 2008
i couldn't agree more my friend.
one of the best bands in seattle, hands down!
2 Jennifer Savage said on December 18, 2008
I completely agree! I fell in love with The Cops a few years ago when they toured through here ("here" being Humboldt County) - it took them so long to come back and now they're breaking up? Nooooooooooooooo... I actually considered coming up for the shows, but just can't make it work, so close to the holidays as it is.
So, so sad.
3 Brittney said on December 18, 2008
Maybe with the power of our love and our rock and roll, we can make it happen.
4 Amie said on December 19, 2008
I will truly, TRULY miss The Cops. Not only one of the best bands in Seattle, ever - but also a really great group of guys.
5 Hannah Levin said on December 19, 2008
They killed it last night. Place was packed, despite the snow. Cancer Rising had to bail, but Widower was phenomenal.
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