This past weekend, whilst hitchhiking up the West Coast and back to his hometown of St. Louis, guest Apes on Tape contributor Sean Lawlor journeyed to Sasquatch Music Festival at the Gorge to catch one of his current favorite bands–Cloud Cult. Sean noted that Cloud Cult alone nearly sealed his commitment to make a pitstop at Sasquatch. […]
Santa Barbara band Gardens & Villa crept onto my radar as I heard that Pickwick and Damien Jurado’s producer Richard Swift was crafting their newest record. More than that though, their luscious, dreamily catchy single “Black Hills” immediately won me over upon hearing it. Appealing to my former-farmer and PacNW roots, the band is full of avid […]
Whilst tides of recent tracks filled with reverb reservoirs, hidden vocals, buried guitars and ambient, DIY, bedroom ambience seem to dominate the blogosphere, a guy can celebrate when he hears some good ole, guitar-driven, cocksure Rock. And while many-a-critic (note: if I ever refer to myself as that, shut this shit down asap) may say the Strokes, White […]
My hometown of Spokane, WA is hardly known for music. Spokane’s typical sell-out shows include Tech N9ne and Puddle of Mudd. Growing up, we caught national attention not for quality tunes, but meth troubles and Robert Lee Yates (#509pride). So when Spokane group The Globes signed to Barsuk and began making waves (in addition to stellar […]
For many Northwest music fans and musicians, Damien Jurado is, simply put, an icon. After dozens of releases over the past several decades, Jurado has ventured through a variety of musical spectrums and quietly put together a discography as strong or consistent as any one in the region. Which is saying something in the Northwest. In […]