at Sonic Boom

 

I present to you, dear TIG reader, a selection of photos from the Past Lives, Tapestry of Webs, album release show at the new Sonic Boom on Capitol Hill. Although it was a brief show (lasting maybe 25 minutes long), Past Lives were precise, fast and fun. AND they made light of the strange setup that Sonic Boom has concocted in their killer new store. Check 'em.

 

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In the past lives of Past Lives, the geneology includes four former members of the notable post-hardcore band The Blood Brothers.

What Past Lives does musically, is to forget the lineage from Blood Brothers and create a new sound that is built especially around the art-rock guitar parts from Devin Welch (who also was in Chromatics and Shoplifting) and Morgan Henderson. The vocals are almost secondary to the instrumentation that blends math rock precision with a level of punk noise and some occasional chaos for good measure. The band has played several high-profile shows since the first time they took a stage in early 2008. The most recent show I caught was when they opened for Murder City Devils and the intensity and noise made for a perfect compliment to the legendary Northwest rock band.

Here's a video of Past Lives playing their song "Beyond Gone" at their second show ever, opening for No Age and Liars at the Showbox:

Past Lives play Bumbershoot at EMP's Sky Church on Saturday, September 5 at 3:30pm.

{Past Lives photo by Chona Kasinger from TIG's Flickr Pool.}

Only three more days until the Capitol Hill Block Party!

To prep, I've been perusing the Sparkly Indie Pop Flickr Photo Pool to see what I have in store. Here's a photo of the Past Lives who will be taking the Vera Stage at 8p on Friday (July 24). If you haven't seen them already, this photo should convince you to head to the Vera Stage in time to catch their set.

And for those putting together their "what to see at CHBP" spreadsheet, check out Chelsea's Capitol Hill Block Party preview.

(Photo by Matt Koroulis)

at The Showbox at the Market

An all-ages show to support and remember the legendary Seattle musician John Spalding.

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Tonight (a Monday night! How lucky can we get?) Past Lives plays the Showbox at the Market's Green Room, a nicely intimate way to get to know this new challenging, more melodic material from these brother punks.

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at Capitol Hill Block Party 2008

Before any announcements or rumors were made, I could read all over The Blood Brothers' Capitol Hill Block Party 2007 performance that the end was near; six months later it was official. One thing the decade-long band did right was seamlessly blend the best elements of pop and punk, and not in a cheesy pop-punk sort of way.

Imagine if you took that ability and extracted it, concentrating it down to speaker pumping serum: Past Lives is born. I checked out BB's new lineup -- deeper, and in my opinion better, singer Jordan Billie, bassist Morgan Henderson, and drummer Mark Gajadhar with new guitarist David Welch -- when they foirst popped up, opening for HEALTH, one of their first handful of shows. Freshly minted, the performance felt like they hadn't quite found their footing, yet a promising act was on the horizon.

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at Chop Suey

Although maybe not quite for your hearing...

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