Ryan PangilinanFor all intents and purposes, I should like Oceana. For their new record, Birtheater, they’ve come through with a much more polished and well-crafted collection of songs. It’s definitely something that deserves play on modern rock radio...
Can there be an album that’s both vanilla and likeable? For solo artist Cary Judd, that paradox has been found in his latest record, Goodnight Human. Popping off with the uptempo track, “The Apocalyptic Love Song,” most of...
Anyone who is going to listen to Schleusolz’ debut album, Running Out of Time, should be prepared to take part in some quirky dancing — as in the type of dancing that middle-aged men in Hawaiian shirts carry out at music festivals. Doing...
If the sound of blistering guitars on the opening track, “Boys at the Metro,” doesn’t get a listener’s attention, the “hey!” shouts will make it clearly known that Seattle’s Tea Cozies are not willing to go...
The last time Bayside singer, Anthony Raneri, attached his name to a non-Bayside band, I lambasted them and got all kinds of crap for it. But I stand by my review of that other band, and so with that in mind, it should be understandable that...
Upon first listen, it’s not surprising to see how John Vanderslice has achieved acclaim in the indie rock world. He has all necessary ingredients — a soft, sweet voice and well put together instrumentals — of a non-religious Sufjan...
Thanks to bands like the Postal Service, synth-pop has steadily been creeping back into peoples’ CD players (do people still use those?), and Plushgun is another band among the many that are taking cues from the likes of New Order and putting...
From its auspicious packaging of cute cartoon caricatures of animals, it’s easy to pass off Heart to Elk by Point Juncture, WA (who are really from Oregon) as another cutesy album made by indie rock kids that have a knack for writing songs...