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Mount St. Helens

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Stay Consistent, Compelling on Their New EP

    Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Prehistory EP Dead Oceans Post-rock blog darlings Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band recently returned to the stage after an extended hiatus (they hadn't performed since 2010). Now they've got a new EP coming out as well, and next Friday, they celebrate its release at Columbia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    10 Essential Summer Road Trips (With Stops For Sports Fans, Socialists, and Punks)

    Ah, yes. The weather is getting good out there, just in time for one of America's favorite pastimes: the good ol' road trip. Right, the gasoline is inexplicably more expensive in the West right now than just about anywhere else in the country. But that shouldn't stop you. Instead, make the best of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    White Rainbow Starts a Dance Party at Your Neighborhood Bike Shop for Magma Fest

    White Rainbow Friday, March 23rd 20/20 Cycle The nice thing about living in the city is that you occasionally get to see stuff like avant-garde electronic beat-maker White Rainbow starting a dance party at your neighborhood bike shop. (Consider it an especially unusual adjunct to my whole big thing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Win a Pair of Tickets to See The Dismemberment Plan the Globes MSHVB at Showbox SoDo Tomorrow Night!

    ​I know a good number of us are already planning to spend tomorrow night at the Showbox SoDo to see the reassembled Dismemberment Plan play a show in honor of Barsuk's recent re-release of Emergency & I. In this week's issue, Eric Grandy says: Videos from the shows so far suggest that Morriso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Win Free Tickets to See Mt St Helens Vietnam Band The Young Evils at the Crocodile on Friday Night

    Chona Kasinger​This Friday all of us will be needing to work off some Thanksgiving fat, and there isn't a better way to do that than a solid rock show. Mt St Helens Vietnam Band recently returned home from a 2 month stint across the country promoting their latest, Where the Messengers Meet, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    The Globes Sign to Barsuk Records, Will Release Debut LP in Spring 2011

    ​It took a few months of rumor and speculation, but today my favorite local band The Globes finally announced that they've signed with Barsuk Records. Barsuk will release the band's first full-length LP in the spring of 2011. Says the label: Barsuk Records is honored to welcome Spokane, Washin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    5 Other Local Artists Ripe to Be Ripped Off In TV Commercials

    The folks at Pitchfork made an interesting discovery yesterday when they noticed a song in a Spanish language commercial for the sports equipment company Kipsta sounded eerily close to "White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes. It made me think about the Kia car commercial that more or less ripped off ... More >>

  • Music

    August 25, 2010

    We Are Marshall

    For Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, the drummer is more than a musical concern.

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    The Passing of Time and Touring Through the Eyes of MSHVB Bassist Jared Price

    ​When I was hanging out with Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band a few weeks back in preparation for today's feature, we got to talking about touring and the extreme highs and lows that come along with the process. And that was when bassist Jared Price shared with me this story: "There are some crazy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Stumbles On Its Ambition With Where the Messengers Meet

    ​Artist: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Album: Where the Messengers Meet Label: Dead Oceans Release Date: Tuesday, August 3 Rating (Skip, stream, or buy): Skip Download: "Hurrah" Local Show: Aug. 27 at Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater with The Head and the Heart and Yuni in Taxco Mt. St. Hel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    The Lonely Forest to Headline 8th Annual KEXP BBQ at Seattle Center on August 14

    Steven Dewall​KEXP announced that The Lonely Forest will headline their 8th annual summer BBQ on Saturday, August 14. The show is free, all ages, and starts at 2pm; the lineup also includes The Joy Formidable, Dinosaur Feathers, Victor Shade, and more artists are promised to be added. KEXP w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Win a Pair of Tickets to See Portugal. The Man at Neumos This Friday Night

    ​The Portland-by-way-of-Alaska experimental quartet Portugal. The Man has an excellent new record out called American Ghetto -- right now you can stream/download the entire album on their MySpace page. The band is also on a tour right now that will hit Neumos this Friday, June 26. Want to chec ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2010

    Kathryn Schulz

    ​The Portland-by-way-of-Alaska experimental quartet Portugal. The Man has an excellent new record out called American Ghetto -- right now you can stream/download the entire album on their MySpace page. The band is also on a tour right now that will hit Neumos this Friday, June 26. Want to chec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    City Hall Presents Free Summer Lunchtime Concerts Featuring Mt St Helens Vietnam Band, the Tallboys, the Dusty 45s & More

    ​The Seattle City of Music Initiative is bringing a series of daytime performances to the City Hall this summer. Each concert starts at noon and is completely free. The first show is tomorrow and features folk singers Kat Eggleston & Rose Laughlin. The rest of the lineup is as follows: July 1 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 9, 2010

    Blow Up

    ​The Seattle City of Music Initiative is bringing a series of daytime performances to the City Hall this summer. Each concert starts at noon and is completely free. The first show is tomorrow and features folk singers Kat Eggleston & Rose Laughlin. The rest of the lineup is as follows: July 1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Free MP3: Download Mt St Helens Vietnam Band's New One, "Leaving Trails"

    ​Mt St Helens Vietnam Band just left for a week-long jag down the coast with Frog Eyes, leaving behind a very lonely me (frontman Benjamin Verdoes and keyboardist Traci Eggleston are my dog's godparents; they also feed me dinner a lot) and a brand-new song that premiered on Spin.com today. "Le ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 19, 2010

    The Eruption of Mount St. Helens

    ​Mt St Helens Vietnam Band just left for a week-long jag down the coast with Frog Eyes, leaving behind a very lonely me (frontman Benjamin Verdoes and keyboardist Traci Eggleston are my dog's godparents; they also feed me dinner a lot) and a brand-new song that premiered on Spin.com today. "Le ... More >>

  • Arts

    May 12, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

    ​Mt St Helens Vietnam Band just left for a week-long jag down the coast with Frog Eyes, leaving behind a very lonely me (frontman Benjamin Verdoes and keyboardist Traci Eggleston are my dog's godparents; they also feed me dinner a lot) and a brand-new song that premiered on Spin.com today. "Le ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 5, 2010

    Mt. St. Helens Panel Discussion

    ​Mt St Helens Vietnam Band just left for a week-long jag down the coast with Frog Eyes, leaving behind a very lonely me (frontman Benjamin Verdoes and keyboardist Traci Eggleston are my dog's godparents; they also feed me dinner a lot) and a brand-new song that premiered on Spin.com today. "Le ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Concert Photos: Mt St Helens Vietnam Band at the Vera Project on Friday Night

    MSHVB front man Benjamin Verdoes at the Vera Project on Friday.​ Mt St Helens Vietnam Band played a benefit show for 826 Seattle at the Vera Project last Friday. Check out some more of photographer Alex Crick's killer shots of the band after the jump.

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2010

    Mt St Helens Vietnam Band

    MSHVB front man Benjamin Verdoes at the Vera Project on Friday.​ Mt St Helens Vietnam Band played a benefit show for 826 Seattle at the Vera Project last Friday. Check out some more of photographer Alex Crick's killer shots of the band after the jump.

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2010

    The Round 57

    MSHVB front man Benjamin Verdoes at the Vera Project on Friday.​ Mt St Helens Vietnam Band played a benefit show for 826 Seattle at the Vera Project last Friday. Check out some more of photographer Alex Crick's killer shots of the band after the jump.

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Tonight: The Classic Crime, Winter Classic '09, Backbeat Seattle Holiday Party, LAKE, the Maldives

    Sarah CassLAKE​LAKE, the Beats, Man, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band at the Crocodile, 8 p.m., $10 adv LAKE has mastered the art of restraint. Backbeat Seattle Holiday Party at the Blue Moon, 10 p.m., $5 Rockers Lesli Wood and Ben Harwood go solo tonight. Winter Classic 2009 at the Nectar, 9 ... More >>

  • Arts

    September 16, 2009

    Fall Arts Calendar: November

    Sarah CassLAKE​LAKE, the Beats, Man, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band at the Crocodile, 8 p.m., $10 adv LAKE has mastered the art of restraint. Backbeat Seattle Holiday Party at the Blue Moon, 10 p.m., $5 Rockers Lesli Wood and Ben Harwood go solo tonight. Winter Classic 2009 at the Nectar, 9 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Krist Versus the Volcano: It's True What They Say About Clarity at the Top

    Finkbeiner & Novoselic Atop Mt. St. Helens. Krist Novoselic's column runs every Thursday on the Daily Weekly.​Last week I climbed Mt. St. Helens. It was an 8,500-foot physical and mental challenge. Going up a mountain is also a classic allegory, and I learned why on the ascent. I remember whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band at Mt. St. Helens

    Alex Crick​Traveling with a band of indie rockers like Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band has its plusses and minuses. For starters, the friendly five piece are some of the nicest musicians in town. If you climb in a 15 passenger van with these guys on a three hour journey, you'll find they've got fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Is Inside My Brain

    For some reason about 20 minutes ago I started listening to Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band's debut self-titled album. I'm a huge fan of the record and recently included it as one of the best local albums of 2009. Oddly enough, as I'm sitting here listening to some of the songs and doing my daily web ... More >>

  • Music

    May 20, 2009

    Sasquatch Time Management

    It’s time to make some tough decisions.

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2009

    SXSW: Saturday, Installment 1

    I started my day out at the South By Seattle party, which seemed obligatory-- you gotta support the home scene-- but unfortunately, I missed the band I really wanted to see. Hey Marseilles played at twelve, and I couldn't manage to get out the door in time to get to the Palm Door by the time they fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Sasquatch 2009 Line-Up Announced

    It's official as of this morning. My Memorial Day weekend just got a whole lot better. Tickets are officially on sale February 28. Saturday, May 23th Kings of Leon / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / The Decemberists / Animal Collective / Bon Iver / Devotchka / M. Ward / Doves / Sun Kil Moon / The Gaslight Anthem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    Tonight's Show Suggestions

    Devotchka live at CoachellaWidower, Final Spins, Sammy Barrett, Tractor Tavern, 9 p.m., $6If for some reason you find yourself out the night before New Year's Eve, don't blow your load on some party-in-a-can DJ or punk show that will leave you wilted for the following evening. Instead, mosey on down ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2008

    Devotchka

    Tuesday, December 30 and Wednesday, December 31

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    Slush Pile for the Holidays!

    How many shopping days are left? It'll take approximately the same amount of time to dig my office out from beneath the seasonal onslaught of gift books, many of them coffee table photo books for which I, humble journalist, have no coffee table. Thus, leaping from title to title, we start the emerge ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2008

    Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band

    Sunday, December 7

  • Calendar

    October 8, 2008

    Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band

    Saturday, October 11

  • Calendar

    August 20, 2008

    Stronghold

    Saturday, October 11

  • Arts

    October 31, 2007

    “Help Me, I'm Hurt” Is Painful

    And that's just the point.

  • News

    October 19, 2005

    The Super Flood

    Forget an eruption. The real threat of Mount Rainier is a surging wall of mud that could bury the suburbs and splash Seattle.

  • Arts

    October 12, 2005

    The Worst-Case Best Seller

    How disaster lit became a perfect storm for the publishing industry. Smell a hurricane coming? Grab your pen and notebook.

  • Arts

    July 20, 2005

    Lighting the Landscape

    Three shows explore the ambiguities of American landscape.

  • News

    May 18, 2005

    Education, 25 Years Ago, Transportation, Religion, and Media

    Three shows explore the ambiguities of American landscape.

  • News

    October 6, 2004

    Mount St. Helens

    Online resources.

  • News

    October 9, 2002

    Where Rubber Meets the Roads

    The best and worst of Referendum 51.

  • News

    August 28, 2002

    Buzz

    The best and worst of Referendum 51.

  • Diversions

    July 3, 2002

    Outdoorsman

    Independent Celebrations

  • News

    November 28, 2001

    Ground Control

    Buying presents for the entire family—at Sea-Tac.

  • Diversions

    November 22, 2000

    The replacements

    New homes for old monuments.

  • Diversions

    May 31, 2000

    IMAX to the MAX

    New homes for old monuments.

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    KSTW

    Fade to black

  • News

    September 2, 1998
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