Originally hailing from Australia’s Blue Mountains, the quartet of Cloud Control, consisting of Alistair Wright, Heidi Leffner, Ulrich Leffner, and Jermey Kelshaw, relocated to the UK. The band’s critically applauded debut effort, Bliss Release was psychedelic and strange but […]
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Washed Out’s Within Without landed at number 24 on this site’s Best of 2011 List thanks in part to Ernest Greene’s cooed vocals backed by sleek, icy snyth lines played through gentle layers of reverb and delay pedals and backed […]
Seattle, WA-based quartet La Luz released a cassette tape earlier this year through Burger Records, and it included the great single “Sure as Spring.“ And through that single, there was one thing that was absolutely certain — […]
Seattle, WA-based quartet La Luz have developed a reputation for a sound that is heavily informed by the girl groups of the 50s and 60s – we’re talking about four part harmonies (which you’ll hear […]
The Seattle, WA-based quintet the Young Evils have developed a reputation across the Pacific Northwest of infectious and sugary pop hooks and angular guitars – in fact, on the band’s latest single “Touch Tone Lovers” […]
The Sun Dogs is the latest album from Rose Windows, and it not only serves as the effort that may well put the band on the national stage, it also serves as the band’s Sub Pop […]
Moderat is the collaboration between two of Berlin, Germany’s most innovative electronic music artists Apparat (a.k.a. Sascha Ring) and Modeselektor (a.k.a. Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary). And as a unit, the trio has managed to […]
Washed Out‘s Within Without landed at number 24 on this site’s Best of 2011 List thanks in part to Ernest Greene’s cooed vocals backed by sleek, icy snyth lines played through gentle layers of reverb and delay pedals […]
Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler has had a reputation for being weird, going back to his days as a member of the Grammy-winning Digable Planets. After all, for a hip hop act, Digable Planets was extremely weird […]
The Seattle, WA-based band Pickwick will be on an extensive tour, opening for Black Joe Lewis (he’s pretty good live) and Neko Case over the course of the fall, to support their debut effort, Can’t Talk […]
I happen to quite a fan of Seattle, WA-based label Hardly Art Records – they just put out an interesting array of lo-fi and indie rock with at a pretty consistent clip. Hunx and his […]
Occasionally, large festivals can be exhausting mixed bags. With things going on simultaneously, you’re forced to make a difficult balancing act between those acts which you may find personally enjoyable an newsworthy with discovering something […]
Occasionally, large festivals can be exhausting mixed bags. With things going on simultaneously, you’re forced to make a difficult balancing act between those acts which you may find personally enjoyable an newsworthy with discovering something […]
Seattle, WA-based quartet La Luz released a cassette tape earlier this year through Burger Records, and it included the great single “Sure as Spring.” And through that single, there was one thing that was absolutely […]
City Light is the collaborative electronic/indie rock project of singer/songwriter Matt Shaw and producer Nick Andre. The act originally began as a long-distance audio project with the-then Seattle, WA-based Shaw and the San Francisco, CA-based […]