Love's Not Impossible: My Top Ten Songs of 2012
We had to have some good tunes to get us through a year of watching a psychopathic plutocrat trying to pitch us back into the…
Fall rotation: The Pharmacy, The Coup, Dum Dum Girls, Doug Stanhope, King Tuff
Autumn is a favorite, TIG-cherished time of year, but that isn't necessarily good for new music for me: I am a sentimental bastard and tend…
I love this shit: Husky
As we mentioned this summer, recent Sub Pop signees Husky have taken on the world with their "meticulous, soothing, gentle-assault, looking out the train window…
Heavy rotation: best of a yummy Summer
It's late summer and I have been listening to many refreshing albums, as the world heats up more than ever. And now, it's time for…
Fear Fun
How does a Seattle boy deal with a debilitating dose of depression and then some newfound creative sparks in Los Angeles? (J./Joshua) Tillman {formerly of…
Father Creeper
Spoek Mathambo's Father Creeper may be the sleeper of the year. It is disguised as world stew glitch brew, but its album cover somehow perfectly…
awE naturalE
THEESatisfaction create Blue Note-kissed hip-hop bliss from "your limbs to your Tims." Tacoma-grown Stasia Irons and Seattle-Hawai'i reared Catherine Harris-White, the two who scribe and…
Only In Dreams
"I do not pray but tonight I am begging," she sings on "Heartbeat," five tracks into Only In Dreams, the Dum Dum Girls' second album.…
Black Up
Once you do something extraordinary, the universe gets in the way. People almost seem to be willing you to fail by praising your breakthrough effort,…
Let's Nic at Nite with Hey Marseilles, Pearly Gate Music, star-tastic silent auctions and more for a good cause
{Hey Marseilles photo by Jason Tang from the Imaginary Photo Pool} Huge thanks to the folks that have put together the Nic at Nite party…