MELANIE RADFORD OF BUILT TO SPILL FINDS STILLNESS AMONG THE CHAOS ON SOLO DEBUT
Stillness can be hard to find for a touring musician when your existence is all about moving: from the bus to the hotel to the soundcheck to the gig, and back on the bus to the next town, or a night i...
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PAUL SOLGER, WITH HELP FROM STONE GOSSARD AND DUFF McKAGAN, HAS MADE ‘THE BEST THING I’VE DONE’
Paul Solger is a name that might not ring a bell with you. But mention him to the A-listers in the Seattle music scene, and you'll get a response. "Paul is a cool motherfucker and hopefully some of...
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THE HEAD AND THE HEART: ‘WE DID IT OURSELVES BEFORE, SO WHY CAN’T WE DO IT AGAIN?’
To move forward, The Head and The Heart had to go backwards. Back to how they worked when they were a scrappy young crew emerging from open-mic nights in Seattle: doing it by -- and for -- themselves....
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EXCLUSIVE: ACID TONGUE STREAMS NEW ALBUM, ‘ARBORETUM’
A day before its official release, you can stream Acid Tongue's third album, "Arboretum," below. As always, the core of the Seattle psych/glam outfit is primary songwriter Guy Keltner and drummer I...
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SUB POP CELEBRATES 30 YEARS WITH SEATTLE PERFORMANCES
Photos by Jeff Colchamiro Legendary indie record label Sub Pop recently celebrated its anniversary with a weekend-long event, SPF 30, to commemorate "30 years of releasing somewhat well-regarded re...
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WITH ‘PANGAEA,’ EVERYTHING COMES TOGETHER FOR JASON McCUE
If geological history is to believed, the earth was a much less divided place eons ago. About 200 to 300 million years ago, the continents were, to put it not very scientifically, smushed together. Th...
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MOONDOGGIES GO TO “THAT SPOOKY PLACE”
By Michael Lello There is a certain mysterious, amorphous quality to the music of The Moondoggies. You can hear it in the Seattle band’s gently strummed acoustic guitars, the washes of electric guit...
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