Picaresque
Colin Meloy has a voice similar to Brian Molko of Placebo or Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes, an other-century voice that seems both perverted…
The Elephants
The Elephants band member Jason Freet mentions a (probably fictitious) expertise with ergot, a fungus that lives on rye and other grasses and can be…
Pip
Keith John Adams is a UK artist who somehow on his second full-length solo album Pip takes the pastry shell of modern New Wave revisionism…
Weekends Away/Movie Ending Romance
Math and Physics Club started as a basement duo of longtime friends vocalist/guitarist Charles Bert and guitarist James Werle when they went away to college…
The Gun Album
The Minus Five is a project of Seattle longtime legend* Scott McCaughey, who you can at times see taking Metro to his local gigs, as…
Stay In My Corner
What?! The Malinks are over? And it's been a whole year. Where does the time go? Where do the great bands go, the bands you…
Too Soon Monsoon
Wheatus is driven by big, biting rock guitars and unsparingly splendorous keyboard trampling. But mostly it's powered by an androgynous near-whine of the lead singer…
On My Way To Absence
The prolific, ubiquitous Damien Jurado has released over a half dozen completely fomented full-lengths, a smattering of stark, high quality mini-albums, an occasional bizarre experiment,…
Blue Checkered Record Player
Crawling from the beautiful wreckage of 'neon and ruin,' Slender Means guitarist Sonny Votolato releases a solo debut of vitreous confessional singer/songwriter material as Blue…
All Rise
This album sounds like what it would be like to be on vacation in a small green bracken-laced village in Southern Europe, on a warm…