Kickstart The Nostalgia: Helms Alee – “8/16” [Video]
utilizing the Kickstarter platform, Seattle’s Helms Alee creates an amazing video, parodying Beavis & Butthead and select music videos from our collective pasts
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RTX GONE GONE: Black Bananas – Rad Times Express IV
In our Sept. ’11 interview RTX’s Jennifer Herrema told us that her band was splitting up to become Black Bananas. The new album is out. Here’s what we think of it.
BORDERLINE Depressing – Madonna, M.I.A. & the Super Bowl Debacle
Madonna falls, dresses like She-Ra, releases terrible video. M.I.A. flips off America & appears in the terrible video. Everything’s bad. America loses. So do the Patriots
ENDED: WIN Tix to ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER Live @ The Crocodile [Seattle]
Finish the following sentence: “People who___ deserve to have their asses zapped straight to hell” For a chance to win 2 tix to see Eleanor Friedberger in SEATTLE
Scratches a Pencil – An Interview with Writer/Musician TIM KINSELLA
Indie music pioneer, Tim Kinsella (Cap’n Jazz, Make Believe, Joan of Arc, Owls, etc) talks to us about his new novel, The Karaoke Singer’s Guide to Self Defense
You Gotta Move – A Conversation with KARL DENSON
Interview conducted during the saxophonist’s recent Seattle stop to perform the Rolling Stones classic Sticky Fingers album in it’s entirety
FOUR TET Releases Exclusive Track For Upcoming Japan Benefit Compilation
In the world of electronic music, Kieran Hebden (aka: Four Tet) is one of the
Futures & Folly: BLITZEN TRAPPER & DAWES Live @ The Neptune [w/photoset]
BLITZEN TRAPPER DAWES Neptune Theatre Seattle, Wa 11.11.11 Last month we posted a brief write-up,
Traces – BUILT TO SPILL Live @ City Arts Fest 2011 [review + illustrations]
BUILT TO SPILL City Arts Fest 2011 The Moore Theatre Seattle, Wa 10.21.11 I first
Air War – CRYSTAL CASTLES Live @ City Arts Fest 2011 [Seattle]
CRYSTAL CASTLES City Arts Fest 2011 The Showbox SODO Seattle, Wa 10.20.11 Walking into the
Heroes And Villains: The Beach Boys’ SMiLE SESSIONS Reviewed
I recently wolfed down a delicious $4.99 lunch combo at China First. When I was
Indestructable – ROBYN Live @ City Arts Fest 2011 [w/ Photo Set]
ROBYN City Arts Fest 2011 The Paramount Theatre Seattle, Wa 10.20.11 Seeing Robyn at this