Valdimar is Icelandic comfort food
While everyone else was away at Sasquatch! or SIFFing it up, my festival activity was limited to a couple of sets at the Folklife kindieband…
Imaginary Watch This: New Grimes video for “Nightmusic”
It’s no surprise that “Nightmusic,” off of Grimes' album Visions, which our own Chris Estey compared to Cocteau Twins (sort of) would be a video…
Reel Grrls premiere short films {4/27}
Imaginary Amie already told you about all the NFFTY goings-on this weekend, but if you just can’t get enough youth cinema, there’s one more film…
Feistodon stuffs my Record Store Day stocking
Waiting for Record Store Day is the grown up version of waiting for Christmas. You know you’re going to get lots of cool stuff but…
Recommended Show: The Lonely Forest at The Neptune {3/3}
{Photo by Peter Ellenby} We love the expansive, inclusive pop sound of Anacortes-based The Lonely Forest so much we imagined listening to their previous release…
Better Than Something: Jay Reatard
{Better Than Something is screening at the Grand Illusion Cinema March 2-8} My angry youth had passed before Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr., better known as Jay…
Recommended Show + Free Tickets: Eighteen Individual Eyes at the Crocodile {3/1}
If you’ve never heard of Eighteen Individual Eyes before, you may not be alone -- but if you don’t take a listen now, you soon…
Takers & Leavers
The benevolent tree spirits of Cascadia delivered press materials to the imaginary office on behalf of Kithkin, the energetic drummer boys who opened for Los…
Does appoggiatura make you cry?
After Adele’s performance at the Grammy Awards, the Wall Street Journal ran an article scientifically explaining why her winning song “Someone Like You” brings so…
THEE Satisfaction play for the kiddies at Town Hall {2/18}
If you are a fan of the funk-psychedelic feminista sci-fi epics of local duo THEESatisfaction, you probably can’t wait until the awE naturalE release show…