Confession: the live shows of Portland duo Phone Call are one of the few things I miss about living in PDX, because no lie: their delightful electro-funk synth pop vibes are just feel-good, limb...
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Vee Hua 華婷婷For the second year in a row, BAZZOOKAFEST 2022 returns as a free BIPOC-powered music and arts festival. Taking place at Jefferson Park in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, the two-day event will feature an array of gender-expansive artists...
With a Prince-like smoothness, in slides LA Priest on “Occasion”, the album opener for Inji. Without pretension and full of confidence, “Occasion” is immediately arresting — the perfect blend of lip-biting vocals and...
Music video premiere for XUXA Santamaria's "Belshazzar", which was inspired by the 1916 Kenneth Anger film, Intolerance. Also: tracks from Belgium's Shameboy featuring Max Marshall and Poland's Rebeka.
Peter WoodburnOftentimes, a complete change in sound and a long delay between full-length albums marks the death knell of a band, or at least a rebirth. After a long brainstorming session -- during which the band lost a guitarist, put out an EP without that...
SVN SNS RCRDS stands for Seven Sons Records; we're a small independent music label from Paris, France, founded in 2010 by David Gamelin and myself, Alex Poveda. A couple years ago, Thibault Signourel, Editor for the French webzine Hartzine, joined...
We all come from somewhere. Outlands, the duo of Melissa Smith and Mark Arciaga, are obviously more concerned with where they’re going than where they’ve been, as evidenced by the fact that they hail from Virginia but currently reside in...
To pay proper homage to the musical grandness of 2013 and to usher in the new year 2014, we’ve once again decided to call upon our tastemaker friends to compile their favorite up-and-comers throughout the Pacific Northwest. Here, James Scheall...