SIFF Review: The Punk Singer
For those lucky enough to catch Who Put The Bomp?, the sizzling Le Tigre tour documentary shown at SIFF a couple years back, the new…
Tender Forever set to release quite intense third album for K Records this June 8th
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZb3QquSYw0&feature=fvw] The story of Tender Forever: Once upon a time there was a young immigrant lost on the streets of Seattle with only $20 to her…
Bumbershoot preview: Wallpaper
When I heard Wallpaper for the first time, I immediately thought of a cross between The Kinks and Weezer (at least Weezer before Rivers Cuomo's…
New Universe
If the title of Desolation Wilderness’ second full-length is taken as ironic, it would be giving them credit for a sense of humor that the…
The Curious Mystery: New album and live performance on KEXP tonight
Touring for their debut album, Rotting Slowly, released on K records this May; The Curious Mystery blends a multitude of textures. Some of their songs…
Desolation Wilderness, and their slow dreamy pop, will sparkle in the Jewel Box Theater tonight
I received Olympia band, Desolation Wilderness’ debut album White Light Strobing about a month ago and since then it has not left my 3 disc…
(a)spera
Isn’t this nice? Mirah has a new solo record, (a)spera, her first since 2004. That’s only partially accurate, though: fans of the Portland-based singer-songwriter have…
Mirah, Spectratone International at Henry Art Gallery on Thursday
Now that many of us are thinking about our favorite records of the year, I just started thinking of one of my favorite Northwest albums…
More songs (and news) from The Spells
For a band that has released one 4 song EP and put a little over 8 minutes of recorded music into the world close to…
Tonight Karl Blau opens For Mt. Eerie at the Vera Project
Secretly famous veteran of D+ and Phil Elverum collaborator and Kelp Lunacy music subscription creator and subterranean legend of Anacortes Karl Blau comes to Seattle…