The Fatal Flaw EP
This is a five-song taste of a new power pop band that has a solid pedigree — Lucinda Kruy sung and played guitar with Luna…
The Way Things Work
This Unknown Instructors album is damned near San Pedro, Cali's WHAT MAKES A MAN START FIRES? perfect. It's spoken word punk rock jazz — perfect…
Warnings/Promises
Scottish band Idlewild will be in Seattle on September 30th at Neumo's. With each performance here, there seems to be a growing mutual love between…
Degenerate Art Ensemble
The Degenerate Art Ensemble formed in the early 90s with founding members conductor Joshua Kohl, his wife, vocalist/dancer Haruko Nishimura, and trumpet and etc. player…
Instant Happiness
In 2001, Gary Reynolds released a singer-songwriter compilation record on small indie Electrokitty, with other underground pop songwriters including Peter Bongiorno, Dan Cohen, and Rene…
Freedom And Weep
This is a PISSED OFF album, made by a gin-soaked gaggle of British and American club-crawling punk Godfathers, and it's full of snarling but smart…
Pixel Revolt
John Vanderslice's new record, Pixel Revolt, out now on Barsuk, offers exactly what one has to come to expect from JV: Excellent song writing, excellent…
Nada Surf's Ira Eliot
It was, I guess, not too long ago, that I got a late night phone call and was asked if I could interview someone from…
Escape From Dragon House
I had a huge writer's block in the mid-90s. I'd written for The Rocket, and many other zines and tabloids off and on for years,…
What Comes After the Blues
What Comes After the Blues may be the best album Neil Young never recorded. Jason Molina retired the Songs: Ohia name in an attempt to…