Vee Hua 華婷婷This week, visual artist Margot Bird and Nils Petersen of Seattle’s psychedelic rock band Rose Windows are working together to co-curate NOISE: The State Of Being Combined Into One Body, an interdisciplinary show featuring fourteen artists and...
By way of Seattle and San Diego, artist Ian Ferguson seems to finally have hit his artistic stride amidst the urban rawness of Chicago. This documentary takes a quick glance at the new direction of his works — with a special focus on large...
Peter WoodburnYou know when an album is titled Pus City that it is going to be a sloppy, wild, rock and roll mess of chords, bass, drums, and howling vocals. Seattle’s Monogamy Party live up to the biography on their Facebook page — “we’re...
Marjorie OwensA 23-track mixtape to celebrate two unofficial SXSW showcases taking place the same evening in 2012, designed to facilitate inner and outer harmony through dance rhythms and psyche-altering compositions.
“The only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets — is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.”...
Scottish electronica act Errors have shown steady growth through the years. The band’s debut, It’s Not Something But It Is Like Whatever, was a calculated assault of electronics and synth, and their second album, Come Down With Me...
'Trying to 'brand' the band as a business just had no romantic appeal, no energy... I think it often gets in the way of milking the truly transcendent moments that music allows us." -- Jeremy Reineck
I’m going to say it right off the bat: anytime a hardcore band does something that isn’t the stereotypical hardcore sound, it gets automatically bumped up at least one full letter grade for ingenuity in its genre. That may be unfair, but...