New Model Army live at El Corazon
A few months ago I reviewed an intimate Justin Sullivan solo acoustic show that thoroughly blew me away. Well, last weekend I had the opportunity…
Slow Light
In 2001, England's Airport Girl released their debut album, Honey, I'm an Artist, which was a fairly upbeat record, full of jangling guitars. They've finally…
Seattle artist Christopher Stewart: Escape Control Return Home
Christopher Stewart is a Seattle artist who released a nine-song CD called Escape Control Return Home last year under his own label, Shitbird Records. The…
Band alert: A Beautiful Noise
A Beautiful Noise are a contemporary shoegaze group from San Diego, CA. They live up to their name -- and they're fantastic. Last year they…
Longplay 2
In 2003, Pacific UV released their first self-titled CD, an album mainly inspired by the shoegazing genre that was mistakenly referred to in early promotional…
I Break Horses: Jungles EP
There is a relatively new Seattle area band, I Break Horses, who late last year put out a six song E.P. Entitled Jungles, it is…
The Cult live in Seattle
I have always thought that the first few records by The Cult were great. Their 1984 debut Dreamtime is perhaps the best, with its powerful…
Pride
Midway through the recording of Pride, Matthew Houck, the man behind Phosphorescent, decided to migrate from Athens, Georgia to Brooklyn, New York. The change of…
The Duke Spirit, Live at Neumos
As part of KEXP's Spring fundraising event, The Duke Spirit paid us a visit here in Seattle, all the way from London (and part way…
Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts I-IV (available now!)
Nine Inch Nails are the latest band to do what Radiohead did last December and release an album themselves with almost no warning whatsoever. Ghosts…