Even if you’re not going to check out Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival‘s awesome lineup in Leavenworth, there’s still great live music to be heard in Seattle this weekend. It’s a strong showing for reunited sludge duos, reunited hiphop icons, and a melancholic country-ish/grunge-ish singer-songwriter. Here are the highlights, but, as always, here’s the complete music listings for the weekend and beyond, for your perusal.
FRIDAY
1. godheadSilo, Corey J. Brewer
Armed with a wall of amps and disproportionately large drums, the bass-and-drums duo godheadSilo fuzzed and howled through the 1990s, then disappeared at the close of the decade.
BRIAN COOK
2. Godspeed! You Black Emperor
The substantial, enduring popularity of Godspeed You! Black Emperor proves that music fans have greater attention spans than pundits usually give credit them for. GY!BE’s raison d’être is to create orchestral epics in loose song form. Lacing their sweeping drone-rock suites with anti-imperialist spoken-word messages and pointed, elliptical film dialogue, GY!BE shift from tense tranquility to grave turbulence with a masterly sense of drama. DAVE SEGAL
