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Abbey’s Sasquatch Schedule

abbey — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:04:32 +0000

Allen Stone - Sasquatch - 5:00pm // photo by Josh Lovseth Hard to believe its already Sasquatch time, but it is and this is the schedule I’ll be trying to keep. With Allen Stone opening the Fest on the mainstage Friday at 5pm and Beck closing it out at 10pm Monday — it looks like this [...]

North of Northwest: Snoqualmie - Snoqualmie

brittney — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:30:07 +0000

Snoqualmie’s self-titled debut is twenty-six minutes long, but it’s a line only a minute five in that’s constantly looping through my head: “River’s arms will gladly pull you down / God knows there’s a million ways to drown.” Delivered in Blake Enemark’s gentle tenor, this line from “clarissa” sounds almost upbeat, and therefore positively sinister. [...]

Misty Mania Monday Night at Neumos

josh — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:20:39 +0000

Father John Misty ::: photo by Josh Lovseth In the last few months, first sprouting up on twitter as the vulgar, hilarious, and thought provoking @FATHERJOHNMISTY, then in salacious music videos, and most recently in an electrifying 5 minutes on Letterman prior to a headlining tour, Josh Tillman’s new stage ego has been emerging as the [...]

The Daily Choice: Nice Face - You’re So Dramatic

noah — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:35:30 +0000

There is an element of facing a firing squad in this new track by Nice Face. You tie a bandana around your eyes and light a cigarette and press your back against the cinder block wall warmed by the sun. You close your eyes and take a deep breath, the roar of a sonic machine [...]

The Daily Choice: Calico Beach Party - You Got Me Bad

noah — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:34:40 +0000

Seattle’s Calico Beach Party is perhaps my favorite form of melancholy - wrapped in the trappings of sunny pop, the tears and misery mulling just below the surface. Alexis Hope’s voice, warm and sad on a beach blanket of lo-fi throwback pop, aches with the duality of trying to keep it together in the face [...]

Brittney’s Occasional Choice: Wintersleep - “Nothing Is Anything (Without You)”

brittney — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:36:19 +0000

Seattle’s summer might still be two months away, but the summer music season has certainly begun, as evidenced by this jangly head-bopper of a love song from Halifax’s Wintersleep. True, there are undertones of creepy - “I took my bike, I broke the lock on your door / I wanna stay if it’s alright” - but [...]

Bumbershoot Line-Up Announced

Sound on the Sound — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:49:04 +0000

Seattle summer may just be starting, but today we get a peek at what the end of summer will look like with the Bumbershoot line-up announcement. Last years “Decibel After Dark” Fest will continue (and this time is included in the cost of your tickets) and some new additions have been made to the Fest, [...]

The Daily Choice: Wax Idols - Dilno

noah — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:24:45 +0000

Hannah Lew’s newest video for Wax Idols eschews her lo-fi, John Waters-loving style for a more polished, deftly edited bit of magic. The song, all good-hearted thrash is a winner on its own, but the video, dealing with desire as experienced by women is downright genius. I can only imagine that Ms. Lew’s star, alright [...]

Shannon Stephens’ “What Love Looks Like”

josh — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:00:08 +0000

Pull it Together is Shannon Stephens‘ third solo release for Asthmatic Kitty Records, and by the sound of it the title isn’t so much an admonition for herself or anyone else but a mantra of self-determination. Now well into parenthood and her thirties the lead single “What Love Looks Like” is emblematic of a confident [...]

The Daily Choice: The Wimps - Stop Having Fun

noah — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:03:22 +0000

Perhaps the scrappiest band I’ve heard out of Seattle in ages, The Wimps sounds something like The Intelligence strung out in a Hotel 6 on a lonely stretch of Aurora. The track sounds, strangely, skinny to me, stripped of all the bluff and bluster that so often buffets the music pushed upon us, leaving only [...]