You Came Here For Sunset Last Year
To paraphrase a famous song we all love, you float till you learn to swim. Produced by Tony Lash (Elliott Smith, Dandy Warhols) and Jeff…
AstroPOP! for December 2005
Your monthly imaginary horoscope told in album reviews! December 2005 AstroPOP! is brought to you with musical reviews by Chris Estey. Sagittarius (November 22 -…
Blab! #16
Buy It!{Fantagraphics} It comes out once a year, it's edited by a French dude, and it has featured new work by Mark Ryden and Joe…
The King
Buy It!{Top Shelf Productions}Remember me? I used to live for music. Remember me? I brought your groceries in. — Leonard Cohen, "First We Take Manhattan"…
Daylight Basement: Of Fireworks and Fate
"I didn't go through a process of elimination in choosing the songs for Any Kind of Pretty," said Bre Loughlin, the stunning-looking singer/songwriter for the…
There's Only One Side Tonight
Seattle's 23 year-old underground AM radio symphonist Sameer Shukla compels you to sing along with psychic disaster on his manicured debut. Ten deceptively cheerful-sounding, could-be-singles…
The Village Green EP
There are bands trying to profit from the fecund fields of 60's aggressive pop and garage rock, and then there are rock bands that harvest…
Any Kind of Pretty
It's rare when a record comes along where all the forces of personal creativity and intuitive collaboration click and grind in a way that makes…
All the Stuff We Do
Becky Brooks and Nate Mitchell are the snuggably crypto-geek dance-this-trash-around duo called Cars Can Be Blue, which mixes up tasty teenage sleeze with delectable Bubble…
Excerpts From The Diary of Todd Zilla
Jason Lytle keeps varying his facial hair arrangements, hiding in his apartment from the Modesto, California sun, testing his woman's patience with his addiction to…