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Rock and electronic music have shared roots going back to the 60s. In the 80s, synth pop artists like Depeche Mode and New Order paved the way for the modern industrial movement of the 90s (e.g. Nine Inch Nails, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242). The electroclash movement of the early 2000s helped reignite this love affair between rock and electronic music. Ladytron remains the most successful group to rise out of the electroclash movement, which they’ve long outlived through a string of brilliant releases over the past decade, including their latest album Seducer (released September 16th, 2011). Depress Buttons (featuring members of The Faint), Geographer and former Nine Inch Nails keyboardist SONOIO will be rounding out the bill.
 
The narrative of the past decade of electronic music would not be complete without a chapter on Ladytron – although the Liverpool-born quartet’s global fan base would argue that the band wrote the book on it. Consistently placing song craft and innovation over any confining aesthetic, the foursome of Daniel Hunt, Reuben Wu, Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo fashioned four albums of deliriously buzzing, whip-smart electro-pop that have kept them ahead of the curve, apart from the fads and in a league of their own.
 
Depressed Buttons are not your typical club DJs. Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska, the Buttons’ influences are rooted in groups like Fugazi, Sonic Youth, Devo, and The Clash, rather than the rhinestone-studded-bottle-service nonsense known to dominate global dance charts.
 
In the summer of 2005, after a series of deaths in the family, Michael Deni left his hometown in New Jersey for San Francisco. He spent the next several months with his guitar and a synthesizer, turning that tragedy into the songs that would soon become the foundation for Geographer. Alessandro Cortini was born in the Italian city of Bologna and raised in Forlì. In 2010, Alessandro started his solo-project called SONOIO (from “sono io”, which is the Italian for “it’s me”).
 
For fans of Crystal Castles, Fever Ray, Justice and Nine Inch Nails.
 
$25 advance tickets on sale through TicketMaster.com or the Showbox Market (no fees – 1426 1st Ave, Seattle) / $30 at the door