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Friday, November 13, 2009

Band / Upcoming Your Cheap Date for Tomorrow Afternoon

Posted by on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:14 PM

Canary Sing jumps.
  • Canary Sing jumps.

College girls Madeleine Clifford and Hollis Wong-Wear are smart chicks. Even the name of their group— Canary Sing— is smart; referencing the canary in the coal mine, referencing a book called Caucasia that left elemeno imprints on my mind.

The first time I saw Canary Sing was an accident; I was technically at the Rendezvous to check out THEESatisfaction, whom everybody was telling me I would love. Everybody was right for a change, but nobody seemed to know yet that Canary Sing could inspire equal passion. Rapping straight-forwardly over beats both obvious and left field (was that a sample from the musical Hair?), Madeleine and Hollis have distinct voices, conscious lyrics and hip hop skills that divulge their spoken word backgrounds. (Hollis speaks of the "space needle scratching at the vinyl of the sky.")

So what does all this have to do with cheap dates? Canary Sing are playing a free, all ages show at Throwbacks tomorrow, November 14th at 4pm. Get your broke ass there.

 

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Dean Fawkes 1
Elemeno Imprints is even a better name for a band.
Posted by Dean Fawkes http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Author?oid=479789&section=Blogs on November 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM
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throwing up @ "space needles scrathcing the vinyl of the sky".

Never checking for this crap.
Posted by Please Stop on November 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM

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