My Bloody Valentine is Playing at the Paramount on July 17

by Sean NelsonSweet, comic valentine.
A small glimmer of hope cut through the nightmare of Facebook this morning: My Bloody Valentine announced a small number of North American tour dates and Seattle was one of them. The last time they played in town was in 2013, at Showbox SODO, a venue ill-suited to the absolute onslaught of sound the band stirs up.Before that it was 2009, one of the two or three greatest rock shows I have ever seen. Before that it was the early '90s. Their most recent LP was