Beauty Parlor: hey, all you pretty things! {new record review column}
I'm going to start this new "album round up" for Three Imaginary Girls with the above recent You Tube video for Sean Rowe's "Jonathan": (1.)…
Happy hour: yesterday's live David Bazan webcast = win
Thanks to an invite from the lovely folks over at Tiny Human / Barsuk, we spent about forty-five minutes after work yesterday swooning in-person to…
Helplessness Blues
Say you're trapped. By illness, by isolation. When I was an asthmatic kid, trapped in my parents' trailer on hot, pollen-piled summer days, the best…
Forever Today
I'm From Barcelona is about to release its third album, Forever Today, which is the most happy-making album I have heard in years. It creates…
Imaginary Interview: Zac Pennington – Parenthetical Girls continue their dazzling & dark EP series
First, the Not Safe For Work/School/In front of blushers new video for Parenthetical Girls' "The Pornographer": Parenthetical Girls: The Pornographer (NSFW) from Parenthetical Girls on…
Belong
Every indie rock musical generation's tantrum heartbreak purges out a band that people will resist based on the vulnerable obviousness of their name. But at…
Recommended Show: Slow Skate Release Party this Friday {4/8} @Columbia City Theater
"Aurora" by Slow Skate from Andy Seaver on Vimeo. This Friday night (4/8) at Columbia City Theater, Slow Skate will be debuting the luxuriously seductive…
Happythankyoumoreplease
There's a point where a movie can be just a little too indy and a little too cute for it's own good. Happythankyoumoreplease skates right…
The Smiths as covered by members of Built to Spill, Wedding Present, Vivian Girls, and…
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LduFow83mp8] (Doug Martsch covering a Smiths song that isn't "Reel Around The Fountain") It's been a while since we've heard anything new from a member…
Month of May
One-half of this new musically-inclined duo has been a friend of mine for years: Celene Ramadan, AKA Leeni - so just to be clear, this…