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…
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…
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,…
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…
Delaware
Delaware, the remarkable debut album by Seattle septet "Awesome", starts and ends with a question: "Where did you go when we needed you most?" That…
The Elephants
The Elephants band member Jason Freet mentions a (probably fictitious) expertise with ergot, a fungus that lives on rye and other grasses and can be…
Pip
Keith John Adams is a UK artist who somehow on his second full-length solo album Pip takes the pastry shell of modern New Wave revisionism…
Weekends Away/Movie Ending Romance
Math and Physics Club started as a basement duo of longtime friends vocalist/guitarist Charles Bert and guitarist James Werle when they went away to college…
The Gun Album
The Minus Five is a project of Seattle longtime legend* Scott McCaughey, who you can at times see taking Metro to his local gigs, as…
Stay In My Corner
What?! The Malinks are over? And it's been a whole year. Where does the time go? Where do the great bands go, the bands you…