Nuclear Power Pants came off create synth-heavy, spazzy, lo-fi garage rock with an interplay between lethargic male and hi-energy female vocals. It’s certainly entertaining, to a degree, with tracks like “Uh Oh” starting off with...
My experience at Musicfest NW this year went a little less smoothly than usual. There were decisions that needed to be made, and bands that needed to be missed because they played just slightly out of the means of timely transportation (as generally...
The album cover for Flying Lotus‘ latest EP, Pattern+Grid World, features a close-up portrait of one of Portland illustrator Theo Ellsworth‘s intricate, feathery characters. With an album title like Pattern+Grid World, Flying Lotus...
This Zach Hill video for “The Primitives Talk” features all sorts of bad video effects holding hands. Slow fades, hyper zooms, bad 3D modeling, transparent overlays, and, well, more bad 3D modeling. Conceptually, too, this video is...
An experimental rock quartet from the Bay Area, Religious Girls rely on common elements of electronics, gang vocals, and multiple drumsets to create a sound that lies somewhere between charismatic church service and pagan backwoods ritual. Here...
The quest for innovative music video creation continues with Shadow Shadow Shade’s White Horse Trilogy. This three-part video (with a peculiar aspect ratio) is essentially be a short film featuring the band’s music. It might not be a...
Crisply shot with a Canon 7D, this video is essentially one long take of some jokers parading through a park with fireworks, water balloons, streamers, beach balls, and the like. There are some fun minor details to take in, like folks doing...
The lyrical content is questionable a little bit, but here’s a little banger of a song from the female-fronted This Is Versailles. They make pretty sassy garage rock that really just reminds me of bands I miss, like Controller.Controller. Cool...