Here’s our first taste of The Kaleidoscope, the upcoming debut release from Seattle dream-pop duo Lemolo. The new LP drops July 3 & is definitely one of our most highly anticipated local releases of 2012. “On Again, Off Again” has been a staple in their live shows for a while now and a couple HQ [...]
With sunny weather forecasted for this weekend, I thought it might be a great time to take a look at some of my favorite annual Summer music festivals around the northwest. Of the five that I picked as my tops, three are huge, corporate-sponsored affairs that can be a bit of a challenge for my [...]
…and in today’s hyper-local news. Seattle radio powerhouse KEXP 90.3FM will be thanking the Ballard neighborhood for their support on Friday, May 18th by flooding the burb with LIVE local music… all day & all of the night! Bergen Place Park will be ground zero while the sun is up with performances from Ramona Falls, [...]
Though relatively unknown in the US, Later… with Jools Holland has been a television institution in the UK for over twenty years. The show runs late Friday nights on BBC2 and features several performances from a mix of both new and established musical artists. The host, Jools Holland, is a highly accomplished pianist, composer, author [...]
Blunderbuss, the solo debut from former White Stripes frontman Jack White, was released in parts of Europe today (for those of us residing elsewhere, the magic dates are April 23/24) and you can listen to a stream of the album in its entirety below or on iTunes right now. If you dig it, you can [...]
From “Emmylou”, their romantic homage to the classic duets of Johnny Cash & June Carter and Gram Parker & Emmylou Harris to “King of the World”, the album’s clap-happy closer with Conor Oberst aiding on vocals, The Lion’s Roar is some of the catchiest and best folk so far this year. Stockholm-based sisters Klara and [...]
For the past few months, I’ve been telling anyone who will listen about Iceland’s Of Monsters and Men. I was first introduced to their sweet blend of orchestral pop & traditional European pub sing-alongs late last year when influential DJ Kevin Cole of Seattle’s KEXP 90.3FM returned from the Iceland Airwaves music festival with a [...]
“No secret No matter how nasty Can poison your voice Or keep you from joy” – Normal Song – It all just felt wrong, kind of dirty, like I was hearing something that I wasn’t supposed to have access to. Listening to Perfume Genius’ harrowing autobiographical confessionals on his 2010 debut LP Learning made [...]
Fresh dream pop via the webs, Sub Pop and Baltimore MD… a new track from Beach House, and presumably the first release from Bloom, the new full-length reportedly due to hit the market on March 15. Hazy, slo-mo, narcotic melancholia… sounds like it came straight off of Teen Dream. Still has that new song smell. [...]
Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White are THEESatisfaction, the latest product of Sub Pop’s promising new focus on innovative Alt-Rap & Hip-Hop. THEES is set to release their Sub Pop debut LP, the “funk-psychedelic feminista sci-fi epic” awE naturalE on March 27 and I’ve been groovin’ on the first couple releases, the aptly entitled “QueenS” and [...]
