Volcano Choir is a collaboration between Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and members of Collections of Colonies of Bees, a fellow Wisconsin outfit. When the collaboration began in 2009, it existed indirectly. What would become Volcano Choir started trading sounds and built on the trades. These sounds and loops eventually became Unmap which gave it
Looking at the past three years, it wouldn’t be presumptuous to assume that No Age was in a deep, deep slumber. At last, the L.A.-based duo of Randy Randall and Dean Allen Spunt have released their third full-length record, An Object. Their latest effort is definitely a summer album, but not in the classic sense
At this point, the name Ty Segall has become almost synonymous with prolific. Just last year, he released three albums and started 2013 by announcing yet another project – Fuzz – that’s set to release its debut album in September. Before we get too ahead of ourselves, however, Segall released another album under his own
The Australian quintet Pond is only five years old and is already proving to be quite the prolific group. Pond released Hobo Rocket, in the US August 6 on Modular People Records. In a fit of unabashed frankness we can admit that this album might not be for everyone. It’s abrasive. It’s unrelenting. At its
Lucky for Pickathon goers, if you missed a set of a band you were itching to see, each act plays at least two sets on different stages throughout the weekend. At the last day of the festival, however, if you haven’t caught your favorite bands by now you better make sure to do it today!
Nashville quintet Wild Cub more than killed it at Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party. After months of listening to tracks of theirs on the radio (thank you, KEXP), the band has now officially impressed us just as much live as they have recorded — if not more so. Returning recently from Brooklyn, frontman Keegan Dewitt
Well, we managed to find enough time to get well rested and ready for the second round of Capitol Hill Block Party after a wholly entertaining kick-off day; the day two party rivaled the first and gave us a wide range of musical tastes from local punk act Naomi Punk to the stardom of Canadian
Welcome to one of Seattle’s classic summer musical festivals: Capitol Hill Block Party. One of the city’s main “bar” streets, Pike St., is transformed for the weekend into what at first might appear to be a musical playground. True to name, however, Capitol Hill Block Party is first and foremost a very big street party
It’s almost always a welcome surprise to hear cello mixed in with modern sounds. I am undeniably biased as a cellist myself, but the relentlessly rich tone that the cello provides can add a depth and purity to a lot of music. My love of the cello’s potential is fully realized in Aiden Knight’s Small
Even if it weren’t for the Garage Band recordings, I can still vividly remember what my first high school band sounded like. I’ll save you the gory details, but it was fine at best. It can be hard to strike cross-generational gold in high school (we certainly didn’t), but occasionally some musicians are able to