Cranes
In the early 1990s, Cranes gained notoriety as a dark and noisy, but melodic outfit. Their first two records were and are astonishing, 1991’s Wings…
Sans Restless Memory
Sans Restless Memory, the second album by Strange Rebel Frequency is primarily an acoustic based assortment of songs that falls somewhere between Johnny Cash and…
Sensory Overload: Uncertain Tracks 1996-2008
There's no simpler way to sum up this collection of tracks culled from singer/songwriter Jarid del Deo's (codename: Unbunny) 13-year recording career than to look…
Bloody Radio
Gloom is in the air when it rains in Seattle, and it rains a lot. Grayskul is the Hip-Hop personification of that overcast atmosphere, all…
Sprezzatura
Seattle three piece, Born Anchors, are set to release their first album in April. Titled Sprezzatura, meaning studied nonchalance, the word gives insight into the…
(a)spera
Isn’t this nice? Mirah has a new solo record, (a)spera, her first since 2004. That’s only partially accurate, though: fans of the Portland-based singer-songwriter have…
Black, Black, Black
Playing music under the Coco Coca moniker since 2005, this Seattle-via-Illinois one man band self-produced three records in his basement before releasing Black, Black, Black,…
Little Hells
In terms of a broad genre, folk music is not easy to pull off anymore. That is to say that hearing a solitary artist who…
Tempest
There are moments in one's life where you have an opinion and you stick to it, right or wrong. "I do not like broccoli," you…
Nude With Boots
The Melvins are an institution of weirdness. They’ve been around forever now, since 1983, I believe, that’s forever in dog years, right? Right. The band…