Meat Beat Manifesto leader Jack Dangers has been ahead of his time since the late ’80s. If his innovativeness has somewhat waned recently, his band still holds its own with some of the most adventurous future-bass producers working today. What makes MBM so interesting is Dangers’s ability to fuse hiphop’s rugged funk with dub’s psychedelic spatial legerdemain and avant-garde composers’ weird tonalities. The group’s kaleidoscopic visuals match the maverick thrust of the music, resulting in uniquely disorienting beat bacchanals. (El Corazón, 109 Eastlake Ave E, 262-0482,
8 pm, $15, 21+)
Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when... More by Dave Segal
I actually read A Brief History of Time.
Does that make me a bad person?
“I actually read A Brief History of Time.
Does that make me a bad person?”
And why would you be a bad person? Truth be told if that was all you read it would be of little use to unless you have read the reference material as well. Though Hawking did in fact put out an even more abbreviated version called “A Briefer History of Time”. Just saying… Physicist FTW!!!