Maybe it has something to do with our antiquated dance laws, but Seattle audiences have a bad rep amongst killer bands – the best out-of-town acts rarely come on weekends. Such was the case as [...]
A spoken-word excerpt from a 1980s documentary about teenage homelessness, the sound of a body splashing into the ocean, several utterly heart-breaking eulogies to lost loved ones, Tom Krell’s second album under the guise of [...]
Local favorites The Cave Singers ended their 31-date tour with Philly grunge-gaze outfit Bleeding Rainbow at Seattle’s own Showbox at the Market, and the welcome couldn’t have been much warmer. After the openers’ finished their set by unceremoniously [...]
It’s been nearly five years since Jim James fell off the front of an Iowa stage and shook whatever demons were plaguing him out of the shadows – the catalyst that serves as the ethos for [...]
Mac DeMarco is a born performer, a musical vanguard with a commanding presence – confident and cool, but self-deprecating as all hell. If he wasn’t a musician he’d be a stand-up comic or maybe a [...]
And so it was – another 250,000+ influx of people descending upon Austin, chasing music the great communicator. Word on the Official SXSW street is that Dave Grohl spoke of keeping a DIY ethos in [...]
The only thing finer than a house party in Unofficial SXSW currency – aside from free beer – is free barbecue. Some dudes as close as we’ll probably get to downtown this year at a [...]
Another day off the grid in SXSW lands in search of sweet turn-of-phrases – Day Two brought us to the best damn honky-tonk bar in Texas, the Broken Spoke, where Canadian troubadour Ron Sexsmith was holding [...]
How does that old Texas adage go? Mess with the bull, get the horns? Er rather, let’s get Lebowski here – sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you. Except let’s revert [...]
She might not quite yet be able to command the same kind of Price Tag as a certain caterwauling Voice judge. But there’s little doubt following the second date of her brief UK tour that [...]
