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.…
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…
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…
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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,…
Dios (Malos)
Dios (Malos) reintroduces us to rock and roll. "Hello, rock, this is Erik." "Erik, rock and roll." No, not dance rock, not indie rock. No,…
Strange Geometry
Back in the day when my musical tastes were being constructed, the son of one of my neighbors, let's call him Keith, worked in the…