Things don’t always go as planned during Aaron Roden’s Air-Raid podcast. For the most part, Roden’s conversations with local movers…
Late last month, hundreds of music fans of all stripes gathered at SIFF Cinema’s Uptown Theatre for the first annual…
Lydia Loveless Friday, April 4 If June Carter played in a rock band, there’s a good chance she’d sound like…
Last time local punks Childbirth made a video, the band pelvic-thrusted its way into Seattle’s hearts by sighing about how…
Last time local punks Childbirth made a video, the band pelvic-thrusted its way into Seattle’s hearts by sighing about how…
Gifted Gab, Girl Rap (out now, self-released, 1giftofgab.bandcamp.com/album/girl-rap) For all of Seattle hip-hop’s perceived positivity, the one thing this album…
Friday, March 28 After 12 years in the local scene, Spanish for 100 are calling it quits. The band’s sound,…
Neutral Milk Hotel Friday, April 4 Four years before indie darlings Neutral Milk Hotel gained cult status with its breakthrough…
Wednesday, April 2 A Happy Death I’m going to be honest: I asked to write about this band before I…
Shoegaze and new wave often run parallel to each other, admiring each one another from afar. Weekend is the bold…
Kurt Cobain once said “teenage angst has paid off well, but now I’m bored and old.” Years later, James Murphy…
Mutiny Mutiny, Don’t Quit Your Day Job (out now, self-released, mutinymutiny.com) When it seems that the world around you has…
Whitney Ballen, Falls (out now, self-released, whitneyballen.bandcamp.com) Whitney Ballen’s voice isn’t for everybody, but for those who love a quirky…
Above: KEXP’s most played song of 2013 A programmer named Jewel Loree, who specializes in “computer data visualization,” got bored…
Chimurenga Renaissance’s Visual Album is a Tripped Out Tour of Zimbabwe Tendai “Baba” Maraire, better known to many as one-half…
Animals as Leaders serve instrumental progressive-metal shredding, aided by leader Tosin Abasi’s fondness for eight-string guitars (let’s see your average…
When Tendai “Baba” Maraire was 25, his mother took the family to Masvingo, the Zimbabwean village where his family came…
On January’s Restoring Force, California metalcore quintet Of Mice & Men has found a middle ground, both lyrically and musically,…
We already told you the story behind Everett’s new Fisherman’s Village Music Festival, and now we can tell you the…
Bun B and Kirko Bangz Sunday, March 30 It’ll be a show for hip-hop and rap devotees old and new…
