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Emily Codling is FYM’s designer of the week. She recently redesigned her wedding ring and we have the proof!
Why we’re stoked: She took a simple solitaire mounting, and just changed the game up. Her original design pairs a radiant cut Chatham Yellow Sapphire boldly placed into a bar setting, between two rows of .50ctw bead set diamonds.
Emily Codling: CAD rendering.
Emily Codling: Wax carving.
Emily’s Original Ring
Cheers to Emily and her beautiful design. You can commission her talents, and superior creative eye at Greenlake Jewelry Works in Seattle Washington, USA.
The boys in The Walkmen have a new album ‘LISBON’ coming out September 14th and they’ll be hitting the road to support. They’ll be in Seattle September 8th at the Showbox with Seattle’s own Helio Sequence, then The Fillmore in SF with Japandroids(9/14) and they’ll be in the City of Angels with Japandroids as well at The Music Box (9/15). Head on over HERE to get a treat of a new song from ‘LISBON’ in exchange for an email address. If you need some visuals to hold you over until September, here’s a performance that they did on the 4th of July in Maquoketa, Iowa.
This is our decision to live fast and die young. We’ve got the vision, now let’s have some fun! MGMT are playing Friday July 23rd on the main stage at 10:45pm.
Sounds Like: Taking psychedelics, while driving your wealthy step-father’s jeep, through the Mojave Desert.
FYM enjoyed the rootsy, glamourous sounds of Jaguar Love’s first album Take Me To The Sea. However, with bandmate, and label changes JL’s sound has been evolving over the past two years.
Judge for yourself, Jaguar Love are performing Friday at 9:30PM on the Vera Stage @ Capitol Hill Block Party. We are excited to see how the evolution of the band has effected their sound, and stage presence. FYM will probably love it, but we are still cautious.
Sounds Like: Neon drenched anthems, for dark bars, on rainy evenings.
UP ALL NIGHT is FYM’s Jam of the Day. We know it’s not the old sound, but we kinda like the new joint better. Enjoy! One more thing, if you dig Johnny Whitney in general, like we do, check out his pre-block party DJ set at Nuemos July 21, 2010.
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) is playing Saturday at 7:30pm on the main stage @ Capitol Hill Block Party. Get your psych-funk, hipster dance-pants on. Come to a stellar show, and spot FYM’s hyper-color pink Chicago Cubs hat sweating away in the audience.
Must Be The Moon: Sounds like, a sexy party you didn’t get invited to…
Sounds Like: Groovy, honest, pop music-with hints of the 80’s peppered in for good measure (Eno should be proud). Yeasayer is playing Friday night at 7:15pm on the main stage. Tickets are available HERE.
TOMORROW, the kind people of Capitol Hill Seattle Washington, invite you to stop over to the neighborhood for a block party.
Friday night is completely sold out! So go to CHBP’s website to find tickets CHEAP for Saturday and Sunday.
All week FYM has been featuring colorful design, and videos to get you pumped for this huge event. If you can’t make it to Seattle this weekend, FYM will be at the show for you. We will be on the spot, with live updates, photos, video, and in-depth features about the neighborhood scene!
So grab your fixie, put on your cut-off Levis-shorts, and come over!
Jaguar Love proved to be a sprightly presence, last night at the Capitol Hill Block Party. The compact Vera Stage allowed Johnny Whitney to become one with the crowd as he started out their set screaming “I Started a Fire” (their first single off Hologram Jams).
A true-to-form Highways of Gold and a more combative version of Bats Over the Pacific Ocean were the only songs off 2008’s “Take Me to the Sea,” Jaguar Love played during their 45+min set. But it’s not about the old, on a beautiful night like this, it’s about sharing the new.
Johnny and Cody, blazed up more aggressive (like we are going to battle) versions off of ”Hologram Jams.” A new cut Jaguar Warriors was set to light speed-sending the audience back to Blood Brothers (how we miss those) days.
Johnny Whitney is still one of the most formidable frontmen in rock n’ roll today. One might say his scream is possibly better than Dennis from Refused? Regardless, FYM had an awesome time seeing the continuation of JL, and their more aggressive, 808, electro-freakout sound.
And on a side note, it was nice to see Mark of Champagne Champagne out supporting ex-bandmate Johnny Whitney stage-side. Jaguar Love pushed things forward for us last night, and we are excited for the future of this new project.
As FYM rolled up to the main stage Saturday at Capitol Hill Block Party, we were expecting to see !!! bringing their discotheque pain. Instead, FYM was greeted with a cloud of green smoke rising up from the audience, and harmonious tunes that would make Levon Helm stoked to hear.
Of course this band turned out to be Blitzen Trapper. (Blonde Redhead canceled due to being boring) FYM has had a love/hate relationship with BT over the past two years. Their band name drives us crazy! Blitzen Trapper sounds like it should be a nazi-killing World War II superhero found in Inglorious Bastards. But on several occasions, our ears have perked-up at an unfamiliar tune on NPR, which turns out to be a jam by Blitzen Trapper.
Lead singer Eric Earley, looking like a young Bruce Springsteen, busted through mostly new tunes off BT’s latest album Destroyer of the Void, (which can be heard for free here) on SubPop records. It was a pleasant surprise to catch their tight set. And we can’t wait to see them in a more intimate setting, low-lit smokey bars, is where this stoney-fest needs to be heard.
Sounds Like: If Neil Young, Jeff Tweedy, The Band, Elvis Costello, CSNY, and David Bowie, all found themselves at the same party (and fucked) their sound-baby would be Portland’s own Blitzen Trapper.
It was also nice to see Erik Menteer, getting some beautiful lady-fan respect after the show!
As the smoke cleared from the Portland Trail Blazing Blitzen Trapper set, a friendly security guard cooled down the audience. And as the sunset sank behind the main stage, everyone geared up for the dance party to come!
Nic Offer (!!! frontman) worked the main stage like a gentlemen in short-shorts should. Offering up a performance everyone at The Cuff would think was fabulous. (and we hope Nic keeps the short hair!) If there is a band that sums up the vibe of Capitol Hill/Block Party, it would have to Chk Chk Chk. The eclectic neighborhood/band are both fabulous, too hip for their own good, dangerous and dancey. FYM had a great time dancing the nite away!
!!! Sounds Like: It takes two to make you feel alright- dynamic, electro, dance-punk.
