The Posies 20th Anniversary Shows @ Neumos

The Posies, one of the all-time great Seattle power pop bands, are celebrating their 20th Anniversary with two shows this Saturday night at Neumos. Here’s a note from Jon Auer explaining what’s happening:

The Posies 20th Anniversary Shows @ Neumos (full band!) 2nd Show added! The first show is sold out.

If you have tickets and you want to see DJL and Preston the bands start at 7:30 sharp doors are at 7PM!

They just added a second show and tickets are selling fast! Doors for show #2 on the same evening are at 11:10. No openers.

See you there!

The Posies are incredible musicians, great songwriters, they sing the most amazing harmonies, they’re pretty damned funny and quite entertaining too. The last time I saw The Posies, Ken Stringfellow ended up stripping to his briefs while Jon tossed his guitar into the audience – they also played a ton of great songs.

The Posies - Conversations

Recommended shows for the week of 3/23/08

Sunday the 23rd:
Visqueen at the Sunset (7:00pm)

Ms. Led/Siren’s Sister/Speaker Speaker at High Dive

The Greatest Hits on “Loud and Local” KISW 99.9FM (10:00pm)

Thursday the 27th:
Wig Pre-Bash with Blackie at the Comet

Curtains For You at the Tractor

Friday the 28th:
Wig Bash with Shim at High Dive

Cute Lepers/The Greatest Hits at King Cobra

Saturday the 29th:
Young Sportsman/Andy Werth at High Dive

Jon Auer at Fremont Abbey Arts Center (8:00pm)

New Jon Auer videos

Michelle Auer does some really cool videos for many of Jon's songs. Many of them are stick-figure-ish-animated, very cute and often emotionally effective. That's true of this first one for "Four Letter Word."



She also did one recently that isn't animated. It's for the song "Bottom of the Bottle," and here's what Michelle had to say about it: I used the whole process of putting on make-up as the backdrop for this song because putting on that pretty mask even if things are messed up conveys that same idea of sadness/being lost to me. Wouldn't it be interesting if we always looked how we felt?

Sean Nelson covering The Posies

Jon Auer video from Triple Door show

Michelle Auer put up some new video recently. This is of Jon's performance at the Triple Door this past weekend.

Jon Auer & David Bazan solo shows

This just came through the Dear 23 list.

JUST ADDED: DAVID BAZAN & JON AUER (SOLO ACOUSTIC)
Saturday July 14
8PM (All Ages)
$10 adv/ $12 day of

Don't miss this just added co-headlined show with two of Seattle's finest indie rock talents! David Bazan of Pedro the Lion and Jon Auer of the Posies will each perform solo acoustics sets in an intimate setting.

$10 adv./ $12 dos.
www.tripledoor.com

Video from Jon Auer's Radio 8 Ball performance

Jon Auer in live version of Radio 8 Ball (& mp3)

Tonight is another live performance version of Radio 8 Ball (the "sanctioned" one with Andras Jones), featuring Jon Auer. It's happening at the Capitol Hill Arts Center tonight at 7:30pm (doors at 7pm). It's $15 in advance or $20 at the door.

Here's an mp3 from Jon's song "Six Feet Underground" to listen to while you surf over to buy tickets.

New Jon Auer video (and testing the new template)

So, it's convenient enough that I needed to test the new template's ability to embed You Tube videos and at the same time Jon Auer has released, in his words, "a new video to an old song" done by his wife Michelle. Enjoy (hopefully... assuming the blog is working!). It's a pretty cool video with some familiar faces.

Jon Auer interview in The Stranger

Jon is headed to Australia for a tour, and The Stranger posted an interview with him on a variety of topics.

Jon Auer music video

Jon Auer just released a video for his song "Angelita" from the Songs From the Year of Our Demise album. The video is essentially stick figure drawings and doodles done by Jon's wife Michelle. But, it does a really cute job of telling a story.

Jon is playing on Wednesday at the Crocodile (with Central Services)

Jon Auer performance clip

I'm going to try to post this again... it didn't work earlier.

Here's a performance of the Big Star tune "thirteen" by Jon Auer, taken just a few days ago (Dec. 1) in London from youtube user, Gordo73.

And if it never loads (which seems to be a problem...), you can see it here instead.

Jon Auer live at a church...

This just came through the Dear23 email list and I thought it was a very nice performance of the tune "Six Feet Under." I also appreciate the sheer "rock-n-roll" of the fact that Jon both flips the bird and perhaps says "motherf***er" in what appears to be a church. :)

Racetrack, Jon Auer and others today (8/26)

I just got this message from the folks in Racetrack:

We are playing a show later today! We're playing at Lake Fest in Seattle on Lake Union. It is all ages, and all they are asking for is a $5.00 donation.

Also playing are The Divorce, Jon Auer, The Diamond Hand (feat. Shawn Smith), Patrol, and plenty of others. We are playing at 5:30 pm, exact.

Check out their website if you have any more questions: www.lake-fest.com

The bands seem to be running from 12:30pm until 8:30pm, with Racetrack specifically going on at 5:30, followed by Jon Auer at 6:30.

Day 6: Two mp3s per day for 16 days

Good day and welcome to Day 6 of Two mp3s Per Day for 16 Days. Today I bring you:

Tiny Volcano's "Loaded Gun"

Jon Auer's "The Perfect Size"