Rachel Flotard

The Week Ahead

The Relaxed Side of Sasquatch, Part Deux

Keep on Truckin'

Seeing Iggy At The Austin Airport

R.I.P. George Flotard

Following Flotard

Croc Launches One Shot Series w/Long Winters, Black Whales, Moondoggies, etc.

The much-anticipated One Shot/Takeaway Series featuring a slew of Seattle bands playing in and chatting about the hallowed/re-built club in progress is now online. Pretty interesting to say the least, and you get to hear John Roderick and Rachel Flotard talk about the club's halcyon days. But, damn ... More >>

Rocket Queen: Honky Tonk Angels Unite

Local ladies honor Patsy Cline.

Helms Alee is Almost Famous

Music journalists hate it when our friends become successful.

Rachel Flotard on Letterman With Neko Case Tonight

Just got a text from Rachel Flotard that she'll be performing on Letterman tonight with her good pal Neko Case. Those girls are a formidable team, both sonically and in the humor department. Too bad they won't get a forum for their between-song-banter, because that would probably mean the launch of ... More >>

Chop Suey, Once Again, Changes Hands

What it means for Seattle music, the Hill, and Japan.

Three Imaginary Girl’s Holiday Party + Imaginary Liz’s Birthday Bash

Thursday, December 20

Stay All Night...Stay a Little Longer

Thursday, December 20

The Winners Are . . .

The results of Seattle Weekly's 2006 Music Awards poll.

Bumbershoot Index

The results of Seattle Weekly's 2006 Music Awards poll.

'04 Times 42

From quiet amplifiers to runaway koalas, from the lies of the living dead to circles of hair, Seattle Weekly's music writers pick two CDs' worth of the year's best local tracks.

Family Therapy

EMP's Family Concert Series gives a new meaning to all-ages shows.

Grand Royal

The Seattle vets of Visqueen create their own classic rock with King Me.

Rocket Queen: Emerald City Mashups

If you think the genre-blurring is fun now, just wait until REVERB.

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

If you think the genre-blurring is fun now, just wait until REVERB.

REVERB: Visqueen: Defying All Labels

Rachel Flotard vows to deliver her band’s message, with an assist from her late father.

REVERB Review: Everyone Loves Rachel Flotard (Especially the Kids)

Justin Dylan RenneyVisqueen played The Salmon Bay Eagle, Saturday, as part of Seattle Weekly's Reverb Festival. (More photos after the jump) For all our festival coverage, visit SeattleWeekly.com/reverbfestival.​Who: Visqueen Where: Salmon Bay Eagles Club When: 4:00 p.m. On stage, Visqueen le ... More >>

Duff McKagan: I've Been Listening to Gutter Twins, Spiritualized, and Visqueen's Message to Garcia

Justin Dylan RenneyVisqueen played The Salmon Bay Eagle, Saturday, as part of Seattle Weekly's Reverb Festival. Duff McKagan is on Reverb every Monday and Thursday.​Visqueen, "So Long" (Message To Garcia): I listened to this CD last week on a drive through the mountains with my band of four gr ... More >>

A.M. Music News: Aerosmith's Shopping For a Singer, Morrissey's Still Not Finishing His Shows

This magazine is not yet online, but Visqueen's Rachel Flotard looks great on the cover.​Billboard: Aerosmith is still making music. Billboard: Aerosmith is looking for a new lead singer. NY Times: UC, Santa Cruz is looking for a Grateful Dead archivist. LiveDaily: Eminem's gonna make anoth ... More >>

Rocket Queen: Queens of the Home Stage

Grohl and Homme come back, while Visqueen gives back.

Counting Down My Top 10 Records of 2009, Pt. 9

This is part nine in a ten-part series; previous entires can be viewed over here. ​While there's certainly nothing wrong with melancholic musical homages like Lou Reed's Magic and Loss or Elvis Perkins' Ash Wednesday, it was incredibly refreshing that Visqueen leader Rachel Flotard chose inst ... More >>

Visqueen Offers You 15 Minutes of Fame

Message to Garcia dropped in September; Visqueen are finally shooting a music video this weekend.​Rachel Flotard and company are seeking extras for a music video shoot on Sunday, according the Office of Film and Music's blog. There aren't many details about which Visqueen song will be the focu ... More >>

Visqueen Releases Video for "Capitol," Filmed in Seattle

pStationTrack='track_15901_3463'; document.write(''); Back in January, power-pop-punk band Visqueen sent out a call to Seattle fame-seekers, asking for extras for a music video shoot. That video, for the song "Capitol," has finally arrived via Paste Magazine. In a few blink-and-you'll-miss-them m ... More >>

Messin’ With Texas: Seattle Bands Sing Songs of the Lone Star State

pStationTrack='track_15901_3463'; document.write(''); Back in January, power-pop-punk band Visqueen sent out a call to Seattle fame-seekers, asking for extras for a music video shoot. That video, for the song "Capitol," has finally arrived via Paste Magazine. In a few blink-and-you'll-miss-them m ... More >>

Tonight: Messin' With Texas at the Tractor, Ghosts I've Met, Cady Wire

Rachel Flotard is one of many artists performing Texan songs at the Tractor tonight.​Messin' With Texas: Seattle Bands Sing Songs of the Lone Star State, with members of Visqueen, Shim, Widower, Pablo Trucker, The Long Winters, The Maldives, The Head & The Heart, Thee Sgt Major III, Hannalee, ... More >>

Another World Debacle? Time For Another Hoot!

Laura MusselmanDuff McKagan's column runs every Monday and Thursday on Reverb. Hootenanny For A Healthy Gulf is at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Moore Theatre. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of show.​About six months ago, a few weeks after the earthquake in Haiti, STG hauncho Debra Heesch an ... More >>

Hootenanny For A Healthy Gulf

Laura MusselmanDuff McKagan's column runs every Monday and Thursday on Reverb. Hootenanny For A Healthy Gulf is at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Moore Theatre. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of show.​About six months ago, a few weeks after the earthquake in Haiti, STG hauncho Debra Heesch an ... More >>

Bumbershoot Saturday: Picks and Notes Featuring Neko Case, Wheedle's Groove, the Decemberists, and More

Laura MusselmanDuff McKagan's column runs every Monday and Thursday on Reverb. Hootenanny For A Healthy Gulf is at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Moore Theatre. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of show.​About six months ago, a few weeks after the earthquake in Haiti, STG hauncho Debra Heesch an ... More >>

Tonight: Hootenanny For a Healthy Gulf at the Moore, Cyndi Lauper at Woodland Park

Laura Musselman​Hootenanny For a Healthy Gulf, with Duff McKagan, Mike McCready, Pete Droge, Shawn Smith, the Fastbacks, Rachel Flotard, Star Anna, Mark Pickerel, Kim Virant, Justin Davis, Tim DiJulio, Chris & Rick Friel, Rebeqa Rivers, Jeff Rouse, Ty Bailie, Kristen Ward, Gary Westlake, Rusty ... More >>

Notes From the Hoot: Kim Virant, Kristen Ward, and Victoria Wimer Contreras

Duff McKagan's column appears on Reverb every Monday and Thursday. Last week, as we were running down the songs at the rehearsal night before The Hootenanny for a Healthy Gulf at the Moore Theater, it suddenly dawned on me that I had written or otherwise talked about everyone who participated, exc ... More >>

Iceland: Home to More Than Just Bjork & Sigur Ros. Find Out at Tonight's Sister City Showcase: Reykjavík Calling at the Crocodile (It's Free!)

Just last month at our annual REVERB Fest, we (plus KEXP and all you voters) hooked up Massy Ferguson with a trip to Iceland to represent Seattle and play at the Iceland Airwaves Festival in Reykjavík. Iceland is back on our minds tonight -- the Crocodile's hosting a Sister City Showcase: Reykja ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

Just last month at our annual REVERB Fest, we (plus KEXP and all you voters) hooked up Massy Ferguson with a trip to Iceland to represent Seattle and play at the Iceland Airwaves Festival in Reykjavík. Iceland is back on our minds tonight -- the Crocodile's hosting a Sister City Showcase: Reykja ... More >>

Cobirds Unite

Just last month at our annual REVERB Fest, we (plus KEXP and all you voters) hooked up Massy Ferguson with a trip to Iceland to represent Seattle and play at the Iceland Airwaves Festival in Reykjavík. Iceland is back on our minds tonight -- the Crocodile's hosting a Sister City Showcase: Reykja ... More >>

Seattle Rock Orchestra

Just last month at our annual REVERB Fest, we (plus KEXP and all you voters) hooked up Massy Ferguson with a trip to Iceland to represent Seattle and play at the Iceland Airwaves Festival in Reykjavík. Iceland is back on our minds tonight -- the Crocodile's hosting a Sister City Showcase: Reykja ... More >>

Win a Pair of Tickets To See Jon Auer, John Van Deusen, Rachel Flotard More Perform Radiohead with The Seattle Rock Orchestra

​Seattle's hippest orchestra is appearing at the Moore this Saturday, taking on yet another band familiar to each and every one of us. Says SW's Bryden McGrath: Arcade Fire, the Beach Boys and David Bowie? Check, check and check. After three critically acclaimed tribute shows, volunteer commun ... More >>

Seattle Rock Orchestra Celebrates Classic Radiohead Albums on the Heels of a New One

Dave LakeJohn Van Deusen of the Lonely Forest does his best Thom Yorke.​Seattle Rock Orchestra Performs Radiohead The Moore Saturday, Feb. 18 It's almost as if Scott Teske, the brainchild of the Seattle Rock Orchestra, has the ability to see the future. How else to explain the impeccable timi ... More >>

SXSW to Get Flotarded as Shoreline's Rock & Roll Circus Heads to Austin's Annual "Spring Break Bacchanal"

Visqueen's Queen, looking hella Flotarded.​Stag's Rock & Roll Circus debuted last year at the humblest of venues: Darrell's Tavern in Shoreline, which, before Dan Dyckman took it over, was best known as a blue-collar uber-dive with a cavalcade of vintage Lincolns marooned out front. On March 1 ... More >>

A Few Good Reasons To Buy Pedal Steel Guitarist Maggie Bjorklund's New Record - and See Her Play at the Tractor Tonight

​The name Maggie Bjorklund might not be familiar to most of us, but the Danish pedal steel player, composer, and guitarist has connections to the Seattle music scene that run deep. She's played and recorded with everyone from Mark Pickerel and Mark Lanegan to Rusty Willoughby and Rachel Flotar ... More >>

Shelby Earl

​The name Maggie Bjorklund might not be familiar to most of us, but the Danish pedal steel player, composer, and guitarist has connections to the Seattle music scene that run deep. She's played and recorded with everyone from Mark Pickerel and Mark Lanegan to Rusty Willoughby and Rachel Flotar ... More >>

Rachel Flotard on the End of Visqueen: "The Ride Is In No Way Over, Just on Fresh Tracks."

Laura Musselman​Ten years after Rachel Flotard and Ben Hooker formed one of Seattle's finest rock-and-roll bands, Visqueen, they're going on hiatus. Their Thanksgiving Fare-Thee-Well concert, on Saturday, November 26 at the Neptune, will feature a mélange of songs from their three critically ... More >>

The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

From M. Women to Visqueen.

Photo & Perspective: Visqueen's Farewell at the Neptune Was a Going-Away Party For Us All

Laura MusselmanVisqueen played its final show at the Neptune on Saturday, November 26.​This post is part of a series in which longtime Seattle music photographer Laura Musselman provides her thoughts on what it was like to be at, and shoot shows. By Laura Musselman What's more rock and roll ... More >>

Visqueen

Laura MusselmanVisqueen played its final show at the Neptune on Saturday, November 26.​This post is part of a series in which longtime Seattle music photographer Laura Musselman provides her thoughts on what it was like to be at, and shoot shows. By Laura Musselman What's more rock and roll ... More >>

Local Reviews: It's December 2011 and Seattle Sounds Like...

Our take on every local release of the month.

Rachel Flotard and Jon Rauhouse Contribute a Gorgeous Track to a Benefit Comp

​​​​Band: Rachel Flotard and Jon Rauhouse Release: "Hammered Light" from Luz De Vida Label: Fort Lowell Records Release Date: Out Now Visqueen's Rachel Flotard and Jon Rauhouse, the pedal steel player for Neko Case, provide a single, gorgeous track to a benefit album for the Jan. 8 vic ... More >>