Crazy Rhythms / The Good Earth
As their first salvo, “The Boy with Perpetual Nervousness” summed up the Feelies succinctly. The opening wood-block clicks, the ensuing chatter of percussion against the…
Bleach
Are you a Bleach fan or into In Utero? This question, not exactly worded like that, has sort of replaced the "Beatles vs. Stones" dumb-ass…
Imaginary Interview: The Spits
I met up Sean Woods of The Spits at Grey Gallery after he had spent three days partying in Portland before, during and after the…
Imaginary Interview: The Fresh and Onlys
During the Scion Garage Festival in Portland over this weekend I caught up with front man Tim Cohen and Guitarist Wymond Miles of San Francisco's…
Setting the Paces for BOAT's Setting the Paces: An engineer-on-engineer conversation
Pale Pacific-er and all around engineer super-star Cam Niklaus sat down with Dave Crane (aka D. Crane, guitar/bass/vocals/songwriting) and Jackson Long (aka J. Long, drumming/recording)…
New Spiral Stairs video: Stolen Pills
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMyOH4Rnweg] Spiral Stairs, aka Scott Kannberg, guitarist for the reuniting Pavement, has a new album out on Tuesday called The Real Feel (Matador Records). Above…
Win a fantastic BOAT package, including tickets to their CD release show on 10/22 and a custom piece of art!
We here in imaginary land don't do a very good job of keeping our love for local chest pounding indie popsters BOAT a secret. Their…
Tom Waits – Free Download / Pre-Order Glitter & Doom Live
Ok, so the brand, spanking new Tom Waits website went up today and the internets blew up immediately. My iTunes has more Tom Waits…
Love Is Not Pop
Gothernburg, Sweden's sweet-voiced Sarah Assbring has teamed up with Rasmus Hagg of the duo Studio this time out, for the third album from El Perro…
The Dutchess and The Duke barely illuminated at Sonic Boom
Wednesday night at the Sonic Boom on 15th (soon to be relocated) The Dutchess and The Duke put on a pre-emptive record release show for…