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The Daily Choice: Peter Wolf Crier - Crutch & Cane

noah — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:41:43 +0000

Some years back, I had a bit of a brain meltdown, when, for the first time, I heard a little band out of Minnesota called The Wars of 1812. Working at a record label at the time, I shoveled the bands music on to the desk of my boss, threw it any and all who [...]

The Daily Choice: Spectre Folk - Sat Around For Peace (This Time)

noah — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:01:51 +0000

I don’t do a lot of drugs anymore. The occasional puff, a stray thought about things harder. I imagine though, if high as a seagull on some purified strain of narcotic, and in a haze of concentric color circles, voices melting in to babble, I floated in to a room where Spectre Folk was leaking [...]

Stream the new Colonies Record Thirty Thousand

josh — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:14:46 +0000

Because I’m a Northwest kid, most of Death Cab’s early efforts were notable records in my life. And Give Up via the Postal Service with Jenny Lewis associations is on another level even. Thus Chris Walla and Ben Gibbard and friends have been a significant presence in Northwest rock for nearly a decade now, and [...]

Grand Hallway with the Seattle Rock Orchestra At The Triple Door: Emphasis on Grand

abbey — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:22 +0000

Grand Hallway with the Seattle Rock Orchestra & Perkins School Choir ::: photo by Abbey Simmons It has always seemed to me, the crux of orchestral pop is you rarely have the orchestra to fulfill even your genre’s name, much less the potential of such an immense sound. With eight full-time members (and about 16 instruments [...]

The Daily Choice: Happy Birthdays - Girls FM

noah — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:00:52 +0000

I’ve been digging through the detritus of a dead person’s life (no one of any relation or, strangely enough, even friendship) over the course of the last two weeks. It has been a dusty perusal of era after era after era long gone. We’ve found teeth, World’s Fair 1939 memorabilia, and a pair of ladies [...]

Free Energy, Foreign Born and Salmon Thrasher at Chop Suey

phil — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:05:37 +0000

Free Energy ::: Press Photo First impressions are meant for job interviews, not the music business. In case you’re like millions of other Americans and myself, you forgot what it’s like to go to a job interview. Let me refresh your memory. A job interview is when you dress up, go to the location of [...]

Another Daily Choice: Perfume Genius - Mr. Peterson

noah — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:19:07 +0000

I find myself so often times stuck in a rut(?) of drone-y fuzz, and sharply punctuated garage rock, and thus when I a simpler bit of music catches my ear, I’m almost required to post it. Pitchfork turned me on to this Perfume Genius project by Mike Hadreas (a man I know nothing about) and [...]

The Daily Choice: Crystal Antlers - Little Sister

noah — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:44:30 +0000

The first time my ears were turned towards Crystal Antlers initial EP, I was landmined. Thrown in the air, legs-a-flailing, the thought of what might come next racing through my mind. It was rock-and-roll, pushed to eleven, clouded in a haze of weed and booze, and then fine tuned for maximum aural carnage. I, was, [...]

Carissa’s Wierd and Hardly Art Just Made My Day

abbey — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:40:52 +0000

I don’t get many, okay, any press releases that make me actually yelp “YES!” uncontrollably. But the news that one of my favorite local labels, Hardly Art have joined forces with one of my favorite dearly departed Seattle bands, Carissa’s Wierd did exactly that. And yes, my co-workers at the day job are looking at [...]

The Daily Choice: Cults - Go Outside

noah — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:09:27 +0000

It feels as if a lot is going on in this song by Cults. There’s xylophone (oh how I love the xylophone), there’s a sound swooping bit of psych-vocals, and driving it all is a giant pop-engine. A hustling, bustling bit of machinery glued together with lollipops and honeycomb. I understand the name Cults, this is [...]