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One Night and One Night Only

The document provides information about upcoming concerts at Lewis & Clark College. Dawes and Dr. Dog will perform a free show for students on Saturday night in the sports center gymnasium. Dawes is a four-member indie rock band from Los Angeles currently on a nationwide tour. Dr. Dog is a five-piece band from Pennsylvania that is traveling specifically to join Dawes for its three Pacific Northwest shows. The article also reviews the latest album "Floating Coffin" by the garage rock band Thee Oh Sees, praising their live performances while noting the album lacks some of the visceral energy of their shows.

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One Night and One Night Only

The document provides information about upcoming concerts at Lewis & Clark College. Dawes and Dr. Dog will perform a free show for students on Saturday night in the sports center gymnasium. Dawes is a four-member indie rock band from Los Angeles currently on a nationwide tour. Dr. Dog is a five-piece band from Pennsylvania that is traveling specifically to join Dawes for its three Pacific Northwest shows. The article also reviews the latest album "Floating Coffin" by the garage rock band Thee Oh Sees, praising their live performances while noting the album lacks some of the visceral energy of their shows.

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APRIL 26, 2013

THE PIONEER LOG

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Blackmeat and the Bean

Franklin Manor House, S.E. Portland

for the ONE NIGHT AND ONE Torchbearers new garage rock revival NIGHT ONLY
BY CJ MACLEOD
STAFF WRITER

BY TIFFANY WANG
STAFF WRITER

AT LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE

Next weekend, the Pamplin Sports Center gymnasium will transform into a concert venue in preparation for Dawes and Dr. Dogs arrival on campus. The two indie rock bands will perform on Saturday night in a Campus Activities Board-sponsored event that is free for members of the Lewis & Clark community. Dawes, a four-member group from Los Angeles, is relatively new to the music world. The band formed and released its first album in 2009, and since then, theyve toured the United States with Blitzen Trapper and put out two additional albums. Dawes is currently one month into a 5-month-long nationwide tourthe band is also scheduled to perform at the Showbox at the Market in Seattle, Wash., and the Crystal Ballroom in Portland the week of the LC show. Pennsylvania-based Dr. Dog is traveling west specifically to join Dawes at its three Pacific North-

S A T U R D AY NIGHT
TICKETS Get them today from Student Activities before 5 p.m. or tomorrow starting at 2 p.m. Tickets are FREE for LC students and $25 for guests. INFORMATION Doors open at 7 p.m. Show begins at 8 p.m. No entry is allowed after 9 p.m. Re-entry is not allowed. Usual DSA rules applyno smoking in the gym.
west shows. The five-piece band will be playing at a handful of summer music festivals later this year, including the Firefly Music Festival and the Winnipeg Folk Festival. LC is implementing a strict no re-entry policy for Saturday evenings concert. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m.

Thee Oh Sees might be the most important band in San Francisco right now. Aside from the accomplishment of sitting on a prolific pile of over 45 releases, the San Francisco quintet perfectly embodies the white-hot, quadrospazzed nature of garage rock in its purest form. Sure, some of their songs may drag on for too long and some of the riffs may be derivative, repetitive and bathed in layers of analog delay and fuzz, but none of that matters. No, really, none of that makes a difference. When the band steps on a stage and effectively turns the room into a swirling mass of sweat-soaked teenagers moving instinctually in unison with the bands musicit is like some deranged pubescent waltz. Simply put, Thee Oh Sees are more a live bandone that needs to be seen and experiencedthan a record band. Unfortunately, despite all the vigor it packs, the bands latest release, Floating Coffin, doesnt escape the live band stigma. The first track, I Come From the Mountain, was inspired by the acid-spawned 1972 album Smog by Mexican band Los Dug Dugs, and it sets the tone for the rest of the album. Saturated in a post-druglike haze, Floating Coffin straddles the line between the lo-fi production of the bands 2011 opus,

Castlemania, and the more rounded sound of 2009s Help. The jangly sound of earlier Oh Sees releases still abounds in Floating Coffin. The albums title track, for instance, is an exercise in frantic echoed guitar and feedback, choosing to channel the energy of bands like The Gories through a psychedelic spectrum. The album isnt all jangle and echo, though. Tracks like the album closer, Minotaur, radiate a sense of melancholy. Like the comedown after the high, they are a necessary part of the album, adding the right amount of sadness to an otherwise upbeat record. In addition to adding slower paced pieces to the record, the bands instrumentation has grown on Floating Coffin. Night Crawler is packed full of ominous sounding synthesizer and sounds more like a Death in June deep cut than what one would generally associate with the garage gods Thee Oh Sees. While all the songs on the album stand on their own, there is something in their live show that is missing from the album. Maybe it is the visceral, visual aspect of the live shows: watching hundreds of bodies slamming against each other in time. Even if the raw, base energy of the frenetic live show is missing from Floating Coffin, the record still warrants a spin or two, if not for the songs themselves, then for the memories they conjure up.

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