Cars Can Be Blue, with BOAT and the Withholders
The best thing about reviewing the Cars Can Blue Blue show is our ability to improve our google naughty words search hits. We haven't had…
Birds Make Good Neighbors
When the Texas State Trooper flips his lights and pulls me off the interstate, my stereo wails "I'm a desperate man, and that terrifies me,"…
There's Only One Side Tonight
Seattle's 23 year-old underground AM radio symphonist Sameer Shukla compels you to sing along with psychic disaster on his manicured debut. Ten deceptively cheerful-sounding, could-be-singles…
The Village Green EP
There are bands trying to profit from the fecund fields of 60's aggressive pop and garage rock, and then there are rock bands that harvest…
Connected and Beautiful: Silversun Pickups and Brendan Benson
Every birthday I make a trip to the record store and allow myself to fill my arms with treats without feeling guilty, because it's my…
TIG on KEXP for November 2005
It's rainy and a bit gray outside. And as much as I love not having to worry about getting sunburned, it is a good thing…
Any Kind of Pretty
It's rare when a record comes along where all the forces of personal creativity and intuitive collaboration click and grind in a way that makes…
Tanglewood Numbers
If it's an uplifting time you're searching for, you ain't going to find it with your friends in the Silver Jews. Tanglewood Numbers is not…
Pride & Prejudice
Director Joe Wright took at least a medium-sized risk tackling the latest big screen version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Not only is it…
EP
Like the pleasant warmth of a bright sun on a crisp fall day, the sound of Los Angeles's Lemon Sun melts away the chill of…