You Came Here For Sunset Last Year
To paraphrase a famous song we all love, you float till you learn to swim. Produced by Tony Lash (Elliott Smith, Dandy Warhols) and Jeff…
The Voltage Control EP
Tacoma band Mono in VCF's debut release, The Voltage Control EP tumbles out of the jewel case like a cascade of influences, with layers of…
The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of
I first heard The Purrs' The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of as a podcast of their live appearance in the KEXP performance space. The…
Again & Again & Again
The best moment on this three-song debut EP by Seattle band Speaker Speaker occurs less than a minute into "Again & Again," the pseudo-title track.…
Twin Cinema
Twin Cinema is, as it should be, the best New Pornographers record to date. Remember when the first New Pornographers record, Mass Romantic, came out?…
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…
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…