The Spell
Call me crazy, but maybe right at the beginning of the summer isn't the best time to release an album full of dirges. It's like…
A Steak Dinner with The Long Winters’ John Roderick and Harvey Danger’s Sean Nelson
It isn't very often that two friends and former bandmates (twice over, John was in Harvey Danger, Sean was in the Long Winters) have separate releases hitting stores the same day: The Long Winters' Putting the Days to Bed on Barsuk Records and Harvey Danger's Little by Little... on Kill...
Little By Little…
To paraphrase one famous American: this reviewer went to his computer with the Harvey Danger record he had, not the Harvey Danger album he (initially)…
Putting the Days to Bed
John Roderick and his Long Winters made that boisterous arrival to your headphones in 2001 with The Worst You Can Do is Harm. The record…
Heather Duby
It's been a few years since we last heard from Heather Duby. Her last two records, Post to Wire and Come Across the River, firmly…
Panda & Angel
Nothing like gloom to help brighten a Pacific Northwest spring! Not that there's anything wrong with that when it comes from Seattle upstarts Panda &…
We Won't Get Fooled Again!
Once upon a time, long before I was an imaginary girl, I was editor of my high school newspaper, "The Chariot." My assistant editor was…
Tales from a Brave Ulysses
XXXII. "Street Art: Part One"This is part one of a series of Tales... columns devoted to buying art on the street. Since moving to New…
Capture/Release
If I had a dime for every band from England that takes equal portions of Gang of Four, the Clash, and Public Image Limited and…
American V: A Hundred Highways
I believe in a lot of odd things: Free Masons, UFOs, the Illuminati, Sasquatch, Mokele-Mbe, Champy, and the viability of a third party in the…