Stuart AisbittIf Destroyer Of The Void, Blitzen Trapper’s fifth full-length album, is your first encounter with them, you will likely be intrigued by their uncanny homage to musical tradition and their inflection of strangeness within the seemingly familiar...
Allen HuangWarm Slime is the latest nugget of psychedelic garage sludge from the Bay Area’s Thee Oh Sees. For years, this quartet of tripsters have been alchemically fusing ’60s pop, dirty Detroit-style rock, and homegrown Bay Area psych into a...
What else is there left to be said about Teenage Fanclub? They’ve influenced more bands than a porcupine has spines. They’ve changed with the times, evolving past the era of grunge and alternative almost effortlessly. And they still can...
Ryan PangilinanSome wise apple put a video of Brand New’s “The Shower Scene” from 2001’s Your Favorite Weapon, which prior to this week, has never seen the light of day…and with good reason. It’s kind of embarrassing for the...
Vee Hua 華婷婷Despite living in Seattle for the past ten years, Sasquatch Festival is an event that I’ve always managed to pass up. Post my adolescent Warper Tour days, sweating and baking in the sun with a beastly mass of other human stinkers just...
Qichen ZhangEven the most spontaneous and/or tolerant of audiophiles need a quieting anchor in times of auditory overload. In modern life, anyone rational will have his or her slim gadgets unobtrusively tucked away in a pocket somewhere, earbuds dangling out...
Rose NomuraGospel Gossip are yet another Midwest discovery from Northfield, Minnesota. They’re a rather young three-piece that formed in 2007, with one prior ful-length album. It’s said they began as twinkling dream-pop; with Drift, they’ve...
Keith CushnerRule number one when coming up with a band name: make sure no one else has it. You want to stand out at least a little, not get slapped with a cease and desist or lawsuit. You want to hopefully have your MySpace page show up on search engines, etc...