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By Blurt Staff

More concert coverage from your friendly neighborhood BLURT
– this time, we’ve got Stereolab in Portland,
She & Him in San Francisco and the Sonics in Seattle.

• *Bob Ham stalked Stereolab at the Wonder
  Ballroom in Portland last month (Oct. 18), saying of the space age bachelor padders, “[The] songs
  reflected back to this American audience the many errors of our ways. Even if
  Laetitia Sadier didn’t take the time out to dedicate their glossy ode to
  movements in global finance “Ping Pong” to “our current credit
  crunch,” the message was loud and clear: the times they are-a changin’ once
  more.”
• *A couple of weeks later in nearby Seattle, Gillian G. Gaar
  braved the groovy ghoulies of Halloween and the Paramount Theatre to catch the
  legendary Sonics. “They performed their first Northwest show in 35 years,”
  notes Gaar, “bringing down the house with the kind of shrieks and wails that
  have thrilled discerning listeners from the Beatles to the Cramps to Nirvana.”
• *And a week later in San Francisco, Jud Cost was utterly smitten
  by M. Ward and Zoey Deschanel, aka She & Him, commenting, simply, and with
  no trace of irony, “This could be Sonny & Cher for a new generation!”

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