Vee Hua 華婷婷The bookers of three of this year’s House of Commons — STAY POSI NO FUTURE, GARAGE_PSYCH_DANCE, and SUX BY SUXWEST — have curated this mixtape. Though all three events are fairly different, they overlap in noise and experimental sounds.
This mixtape should serve as a great introduction to Skrot Up -- a label that is constantly releasing artful, challenging electronic, experimental, and psychedelic lo-fi music.
Peter Woodburn"... we live in a rainforest; I imagine that the natural environments have somewhat to do with it."
For the first year ever, REDEFINE magazine — a Pacific Northwest-based independent music, art, and film blog — has decided to undertake the daunting task of throwing a show at SXSW. After partnering with influential Dallas...
Over the years, and with each new release, Seattle-based Say Hi seemed to lose a touch of its eccentric bedroom-pop quality. The music remained endearing, but was clearly transforming into something more “grown-up.” Luckily, the sole...
Pretty much any band out there would kill for Earth’s success. Dylan Carson and his rag tag group of musicians pretty much created the drone metal sound, only to go on an extended hiatus, and follow-up with a re-tooled country/Americana sound...
The debut album from It Sound, Hard Pop For Blue Trees, is a rather visceral experience upon first listen, throwing the listener into a gauntlet of free-form guitar riffs and echoing vocals. It’s not that It Sound’s music is difficult to...
Listening to the 5-song EP from Seattle’s Pocket Panda is kind of like the first time that you see your older brother cry. You discover that burly men with deep voices can get sentimental too. With the band member count clocking in at seven...