Peter Woodburn"Why not?" -- Brian Borcherdt
Shannon WiedeySebastian Blanck’s Alibi Coast is a folk album with an intimate feel. Blanck’s vocals are heavily doubled in an attempt to sound harmonized and choral (think: Fleet Foxes). As the album plays, the songs begin to melt together, making...
Vee Hua 華婷婷outside lands picks for saturday, august 14th the strokes Nostalgia only. gogol bordello The energy of gypsy-punkers Gogol Bordello is high in their recorded format, but simply insane in a live setting. Guaranteed fun times which fit the spirit of...
mayyors No MySpace or self-created online presence? Noise rock spread by word of mouth? Featuring some people fairly notably involved in the scene? Do it. christmas Olympia-based K Records signees who will make a lot of other SMMR BMMR bands seem...
A festival that manages to bring in quality folk, bluegrass, alt-country, and indie rock bands without feeling blown-out, over-run, and over-saturated. dr. dog Dr. Dog seem to be constantly, eternally on tour, and their spirited jams are easy pop...
"Nothing holds up a process like an indispensable band member being both a perfectionist and a control freak. Especially when your band features three of these types." -- Danny Seim
"It's hard; I want to live my life and have money, but it's good to... question yourself... like, 'Am I giving back enough?' or, 'Am I doing enough?'" -- Merrill Garbus
This video, from Brad Laner’s album, Natural Selections, takes images of cityscapes and reduces them to obscured, colorful geometric squares and rectangles. The shots are then edited so that the transitions between shots match up with the...