(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…
Free Sub Pop sampler on Amazon.com featuring Conchords, Furs and Trappers
This sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? Seriously. Look at that thing.Thankfully, it's fact and not fiction. Sub Pop is just that kind…
Streaming previews of The Decemberists new Hazards of Love album
As I was browsing ChrisB's list of releases today, I saw that The Decemberists' new album was out today. The band drew me into their…
Little Hells
In terms of a broad genre, folk music is not easy to pull off anymore. That is to say that hearing a solitary artist who…
Tempest
There are moments in one's life where you have an opinion and you stick to it, right or wrong. "I do not like broccoli," you…
Nude With Boots
The Melvins are an institution of weirdness. They’ve been around forever now, since 1983, I believe, that’s forever in dog years, right? Right. The band…
The Decemberists are — well, they're everywhere.
For the love of all things verbose, our lyrically adept Northwest neighbors are certainly going at it full-force these days. Seriously. The Decemberists are currently…
Death Cab for Cutie to release EP in 2009… "I think."
Not wanting to spare us any of the "Narrow Stairs experience" [!!!], our favorite local Grammy-nominees-done-good plan on dropping a sweet little EP on us…
Years of Refusal
Solo record number nine by Morrissey is surprisingly an all out, balls out rock and roll album. The guitars are right up front in the…
Merge's SCORE unleashes brilliant covers comp
Merge has done it again! For their 20th anniversary, a part of the brilliant subscriber only compilation series SCORE, the Chapel Hill label (run by…