And We Shall Call Him Joseph
Hypatia Lake is a four man argument against lo-fi and for the return of headphone rock. On their second album, And We Shall Call Him…
Common Market
Like an encroaching tidal wave, the Seattle hip-hop scene is rising, and floating along the funky luminescent foam is Common Market, a seamless combination of…
The Living Jarboe
Confronting male-female power dynamics and addressing twisted glimpses of sacred inversion with beauty and terror on her new solo double release The Men Album, legendary…
AstroPOP! for February 2006
Your monthly imaginary horoscope told in album reviews!Aquarius (January 20 - February 18) As Aquarians themselves may testify, water is a symbol of life and…
Skeleton
Christian Hjelm leads the Danish band Figurines with one of those wonderfully-distinctive rock voices. He's capable of flowing aching, heartbroken, but stoic vocal lines over…
In the Red
The clarion call for the half melancholic-folk, half fiery noise-pop of Kind of Like Spitting's In The Red was last summer's mini-album LEARN, a tributary…
"Yeti #3"
A recurring conversation I've had with many people in the past few years has been, "Hey, where the hell's the new "Yeti?" We were speaking…
Lagniappe: A Saddle Creek Benefit for Hurricane Katrina
Lagniappe was born from the Omaha-based Saddle Creek label of artists witnessing the absolute horror resulting from the decimation of New Orleans last autumn, and…
Forging Steel And Laying Stone
Seattle's own Burke, Jon, and Nat are back, with a freshly-honed, serrated-edge, sludge-melange for San Francisco punk label Alternative Tentacles, and their first full-length since…
Spook the Horse
I'm only guessing at the name, but Spook The Horse sounds like the description of an animal's reaction to nature at its most tempestuous, released…