Nick FeldmanShabazz Palaces: All Black Everything.I was at the same Shabazz Palaces show that Chris Kornelis was at last night–I…
Four TetIt’s a problem a lot of music festivals seem to have around here: It’s 11:30 p.m., the mainstage headliners…
Laura MusselmanMark Lanegan, breaking in the new stage at the NeptuneThe University District was in a subdued mood last Friday…
The University District’s historic theater becomes the neighborhood’s most important live-music venue in years.
Cairo is a scrappy little Capitol Hill space that dabbles in a variety of artistic enterprises: music, apparel, screen-printing. Flexions…
Artist’s conception of life without records.I used to buy records all the time. Both as a music fan and as…
Portland electro-pop duo/performance art entity YACHT are streaming their new album (and second–not first, as NPR has it–for esteemed label…
The color scheme is called “kindled”–tasteful, huh?I don’t know if people give a shit about word clouds anymore, but then…
It looks like this:And it sounds like its settings are tuned to “Modest Mouse”–I think I just re-recorded “Cowboy Dan”…
Get into it . . . while it’s still cool:(Update: Right, so, the inspiration for this meme is comedy gold…
John Darnielle + Blake Schwarzenbach = punk love, brought to you somewhat appropriately by caffeine:”I don’t think I feel as…
I’ve got to run to catch a flight (meaningful alt wedding in in Palm Springs, no Sasquatch!), but here, quick,…
From dorm-room dubstep producer to pop prodigy.
Painted PalmsOf Montreal plays the Showbox at the Market tonight, and I mention what the band’s been getting up to…
Cherish the Light Years is the magnum opus of indie rock’s newly embraced dark side.
Last night, KEXP DJ Assistant Jon B. Hamilton sent me the following tweet, retweeted by Capitol Hill Block Party, speculating…
Basically, they’re the Spice Girls.So, the day after Friday night’s Pains of Being Pure at Heart Show, I bumped into…
Angel CeballosAww, twee.Soooo, you’re swooning over the Pains of Being Pure at Heart , you want to move into Twin…
In defense of the band’s glossy sophomore album.
OK, I’ll bite, although I gotta say I think my iTunes’ algorithm for tabulating most-played songs is a little screwy….
