Give Blood
We exist in a world of constant warring factions: The Arabs and the Israelis, the Protestants and the Catholics, the Red Sox and the Yankees.…
Tales from a Brave Ulysses
XXVII. "A New Year's Rain, A Ryan Adams LP, and a Masquerade"Beginning: Basement of Generation Records, Thompson Ave. at Bleeker; New Year's Eve, Greenwich Village;…
Lagniappe: A Saddle Creek Benefit for Hurricane Katrina
Lagniappe was born from the Omaha-based Saddle Creek label of artists witnessing the absolute horror resulting from the decimation of New Orleans last autumn, and…
Forging Steel And Laying Stone
Seattle's own Burke, Jon, and Nat are back, with a freshly-honed, serrated-edge, sludge-melange for San Francisco punk label Alternative Tentacles, and their first full-length since…
Sing!
Nothing like being home for the holidays, even if it means five hour red-eye flights from Seattle back to Boston. You feel like you can…
Wind-Up Canary
We live in a postmodern world. Nothing exists without the context of the reader and the writer. With that, I feel I must disclose a…
Spook the Horse
I'm only guessing at the name, but Spook The Horse sounds like the description of an animal's reaction to nature at its most tempestuous, released…
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Dear Ryan, It's your pen pal Joe again. I know I've been bad about writing, but I got a part-time job at the local diner,…
The Campfire Headphase
Electronic music seems to be at a turning point these days. Long gone are the heady days of the mid-1990's where it was the "next…
Best of 2005 Winners' Showcase at Neumos!
Three Imaginary Girls, Sonic Boom Records, and KEXP present Daylight Basement, The Pale Pacific, Stars of Track and Field, and The Elephants. Friday night, January…