Album Review: Erik Blood – Lost In Slow Motion
Erik Blood Album Review: Lost In Slow Motion 06.13.16 One of Seattle's most unheralded, but highly-regarded, musicians, Erik Blood, has made major footprints producing and engineering work for acts like Shabazz Palaces, Tacocat, and THEESatisfaction, to name just a...
We Were Promised Jetpacks: An Ode to Cadence
We Were Promised Jetpacks w/ Tokyo Police Club Crocodile, Seattle, WA 06.10.16 Draped in a light that blurred the lines of purple and blue, Scottish indie-rock band We Were Promised Jetpacks began their Seattle set softly, before Michael Palmer’s led the audience at...
Album Review: Asterhouse, The Pro-nouns, Crystal Desert, and Actionesse – Four Corners EP
Asterhouse, The Pro-nouns, Crystal Desert, and Actionesse Album Review: Four Corners EP With the release of the Four Corners EP, four Seattle bands are helping themselves to your eardrums in a brilliant way. The idea behind the EP was to get a group of different bands...
Silversun Pickups Strobe Bright at in Seattle
Silversun Pickups w/ Joywave Showbox, Seattle, WA 06.06.16 Rather than personal intimacy, Silversun Pickups offer connection via willingness, uniting with a crowd enthusiastically pumping their fists in the air, albeit with a respectfulness of semi-tradition, begging...
Meet My Guitar: Kaki King Live in Seattle
Kaki King w/ Glockabelle The Triple Door, Seattle, WA 06.05.16 Personification of an object as being is no new thing. Some of us name our cars, talk to our plants, have tea parties with stuffed animals. Kaki King, though, takes it to a whole new level with her latest...
With/Out: Cathedrals Goes A Capella
Cathedrals XII St. Marks Cathedral, Seattle, WA 06.04.16 A lack of instruments and an outpouring of emotion, CATHEDRALS went full-on a capella for their twelfth event, live from St. Mark's. The Capitol Hill, Seattle church was the scene of the criminally-good vocal...