Minimalism is so cool. When I write that out, it sounds pretty facetious but I’m actually being very earnest – I love minimalism.  It can be a simplicity that gnaws at the very core of our deepest punk desires and when done right, what it lacks in tricks, high production and flourishes, it brings in a frequently inexplicable sentiment.  Seattle duo, Pony Time, is one of those minimalistic bands that just does it right; with the release of their sophomore…

“You’ve gotta be starvin’, you’ve gotta be starvin’ for it.” Aly Spaltro, a.k.a Lady Lamb the Beekeeper advises in the song “Crane Your Neck,” and it’s so simple and true to be reminded of the things we are willing to put ourselves through when we really want something. Spaltro has been playing music for the past eight years like she’s been starving for it, and this past Tuesday she released a proper full-length culmination of all her efforts thus far, titled Ripely Pine.…

  Like most women going through heartbreak, Sallie Ford is anguished. She’s distressed and the feminist in her let that anger soar as she penned her emotions down the way a songwriter would. In Untamed Beast, the sophomore offering from Portland-based singer, she opens up. The opening garage-soul number “They Told Me” sets the tone to the record as Ford sings in that raw soulful vocal of hers where she keeps the record straight: ‘Never gonna apologize for being so…

The Redwood Plan has just as anxiously been awaiting the release of its new album, Green Light Go, as its fans. Green Light Go was released on Seattle’s Fish The Cat Records on February 15, almost two years after the band first started thinking about a new album. Green Light Go, the band’s sophomore full-length, is the arduous result of a musical reconstruction for the Seattle band. Where The Redwood Plan’s first album, Racing Toward the Heartbreak, was somewhat mathematical,…