Backstage while I was waiting for them, frontman Steve's dad was plugging the band to me. As if I wasn't about to interview them! But, gotta love supportive parents.

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My feature over on the KEXP Blog for Audioasis this week is an enormous interview feature from eight local bands: Mono in VCF, Seaweed, Das Llamas, Shake Some Action, Fleet Foxes, Sneaky Thieves, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, and Saturna.

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Tonight Saturna, our fair shoegazer brethren to the south, will visit Seattle to celebrate the release of the album Some Delicious Enemy.

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Saturna sits snugly in this tradition, and has managed with this, their debut full-length, to reference the things that came before while carving out their own place with memorably strong and well-crafted songs, more than just mood and attitude, which help strengthen the argument that shoegaze is a genre worth revisiting, especially when it remembers to kick ass like this.

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at The Crocodile

Voyager One, who I bet have been waiting their entire lives for a chance to do a concentration of Shoegazer covers, did Ride's "It's Alright" and Jesus and Mary Chain's "Reverence."

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