MUSIC

SMN’s Top 15 of 2015

SMN’s Top 15 of 2015

We had a hard time narrowing the massive list of our favorite Seattle shows of the year, but we polled the ranks and came up with the list you've all been waiting for. Thanks to all the bands, all our contributors, and all the fans that made 2015 a year of top-notch...

Planes on Paper: A Few of Our Favorite Things

Planes on Paper: A Few of Our Favorite Things

Planes on Paper w/ Smokey Brights and Cataldo Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA 12.19.15 Cohesion: the action or fact of forming a united whole, and something that can be a struggle for any musical act to obtain. It can't be faked, it can't be manufactured. It can only be...

Album Review: Strange Faces – Stonerism

Album Review: Strange Faces – Stonerism

Strange Faces Album Review: Stonerism Young Chicago band Strange Faces has produced a debut album, Stonerism, that draped a thin plastic sheet over my eyes, a lo-fi filter through which I saw their garage-punk world. The four-person band started as a solo 2013 project...

Muse Brings Out The Big Drones

Muse Brings Out The Big Drones

Muse w/ Phantogram KeyArena, Seattle, WA 12.12.15 Why isn’t the stage spinning? Is it broken? No, it’s just spinning so imperceptibly slow you can’t tell unless you spend minutes staring at it, forgetting that there is quite possibly the production of the year...