Beatmaker WD4D likes his soul heavy and his drinks adventurous.
Miracles Club: great even if you’re straight…yeahLike any respectable music festival, Decibel neither encourages nor condones drug use. And, like…
Local beatmakers give us their picks for the city’s pre-eminent electronic-music showcase.
Rap Genius dot com is white devil sophistry/Urban Dictionary is for demons with college degrees–Kool AD, “Middle of the Cake”Huh,…
Unlikely electronic soul.
Atari Late-Thirties RiotIf Bumbershoot Saturday was pleasant and chill, my Bumbershoot Sunday was largely about disappointment–too much shitty sound, too…
ride the wohl whipWeezer concerts, Retromania, one other obligatory thing to complete a list of three–seems like everybody is getting…
Recommended shows from Bumbershoot After Dark to Identity Festival.
How a rock-‘n’-roll town learned to stop worrying and love the rave.
RIPEpic synth-rock quartet Sleepy Eyes of Death play their final show tonight at Neumos–as noted here:Sleepy Eyes of Death came…
Today at Slate, author Simon Reynolds*, whose new book about pop’s insatiable appetite for old culture Retromania is out now,…
The Rapture – In The Grace Of Your Love / White Out Live! from DFA Records on Vimeo.Jesus Christ! I…
My shoes (last year’s Cons) before Fucked Up; after below.There was a lot I wanted to see (and did see)…
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Shabazz Palaces.I’m in Chicago right now, sweating and sticky and gross, and feeling pretty awesomely washed out by the past…
The inaugural Substrata Festival happens in Seattle this weekend (and I’m in Chicago for the Pitchfork Festival), but if you’re…
Substrata’s Rafael Anton Irisarri, ponderingThis week in the music section, I profile the inaugural edition of the Substrata Festival, a…
A weekend of experimental music escapes the familiar summer-festival trail.
Beat Connection – “Balearic Trunk Rhythm”Young and rising Seattle electronics duo Beat Connection (see how we’re phasing out “chillwave” here?)…
Slower tempos, more nostalgia, and why 30 is the new 20 on Seattle dance floors.
