Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
I have seen the future of indie rock and it will be named Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! The back story surrounding the circumstances of…
Plans
There are two obligatory remarks made in every recent Death Cab for Cutie article, and I think we all know there have been a lot…
Harmonies for the Haunted
When stellastarr* broke onto the music scene in 2003, they had a number of things going against them in my book: (1) they were NYC…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…