Rock & Roll Archaeologist
Buy It!{Sasquatch Books}Peter Blecha is a native of Seattle and is primarily responsible for collecting the "artifacts" for the museum portion of the controversial and…
AstroPOP! for January 2006
Your monthly imaginary horoscope told in album reviews!Capricorn (December 22 - January 19) There is more to Capricorns than meets the eye. The first month…
Means/Ends
Sexy, smart, hard, and catchy. Those are the adjectives for my favorite bands. There has to be an intelligent, sensual dynamic tension involved, that kids…
The Gentleman's Club EP
Tacoma band Paris Spleen, whose name suitably comes from a Charles Baudelaire book of poetry, has added a decadent dollop of new disco to their…
The Long March
Sabzi and Geologic, both in their early twenties, are a Seattle hip-hop duo called Blue Scholars, and their wise and confident talents are displayed boldly…
Picaresque
Colin Meloy has a voice similar to Brian Molko of Placebo or Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes, an other-century voice that seems both perverted…
Gosling Ruined My Rumballs
Christmas is a time to say I love you, and nothing says I love you like homemade Christmas treats. So on December 19th I set…
Urgency
In a region with as much musical heritage as the Pacific Northwest there is bound to be the slightest bit of musical inbreeding. You know,…
Tales from a Brave Ulysses
XXVI. "Prodigal Thoughts w/ the Long Winters" The plane was unloading and I was in the back. I remained seated for about ten minutes, after…
The Saddest Christmas EP
Nothing beats new Christmas music, especially when it's Northwest-based. Harvey Danger's "Sometimes You Have to Work On Christmas (Sometimes)" has become a staple for my…