"How I Came to Know" by Lois Maffeo and Brendan Canty
A couple years after I graduated from college, I finally became "big time" enough to secure a spot as a freelancer on Denver's largest weekly…
Video: Death Cab For Cutie – "I Will Possess Your Heart"
Ben Gibbard bundles up and braves the piano in Death Cab For Cutie's latest visual offering. My only worry: Won't an eight-and-a-half minute video cut…
The Third Hand
There has been much scrutiny since RJD2 declared hip-hoppery as he knew it banished from his shelves so he could pick up a guitar and…
Sex Death Cassette
Rafter is sort of a musical menagerie that can actually pull off the act. Sex Death Cassette is the closest thing you can get to…
Nara Dreamland
Much in the same vein as Rafter, but a little more structured, is Brazil's Mini People in Coney Island. Nara Dreamland is a pastiche of…
Slow Light
In 2001, England's Airport Girl released their debut album, Honey, I'm an Artist, which was a fairly upbeat record, full of jangling guitars. They've finally…
Don't fear the Piano-Playing Female Singer-Songwriter
OK, I admit, if 'acoustic-based singer-songwriter' had a section at the record store, I'd be hopping over it -- despite the fact that many of…
Mountain Battles
The Breeders' debut, Pod, is undoubtedly the album that changed my life, so you can imagine the anticipation that comes along with news of a…
Beep Family Orchestra in action
One particular local collective I cannot stay away from is the Beep Repaired crew. In deciding what to do last weekend for my birthday night,…
Seattle artist Christopher Stewart: Escape Control Return Home
Christopher Stewart is a Seattle artist who released a nine-song CD called Escape Control Return Home last year under his own label, Shitbird Records. The…