Seattleites and Bay Area folks: we are giving away two pairs of tickets to see Brooklyn’s Oneohtrix Point Never in your city. Oneohtrix Point Never plays at Seattle’s Crocodile on 2/4 and San Francisco’s 1015 Folsom on 2/6. You can enter to win free tickets to either in the raffles below. Best of luck and […]
Pickwick have steadily continued touring behind their excellent debut LP Can’t Talk Medicine. Today, they dropped a new video for album track “Halls of Columbia”. The video features an alternate take on the track, performed in public with Galen Disston singing into a megaphone as the band is backed by a brass section. It’s directed by Tyler […]
Damien Jurado’s 2012 album Maraqopa may well be my favorite of his expansive catalogue. So I was pretty excited to hear the announcement of his 2014 album Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, and decidedly not alone here. Damien stuck with Richard Swift for the album. You can now stream the whole album via NPR. What […]
Beyonce wasn’t the only one with a surprise album release today. Seattle’s The Physics dropped their new Digital Wildlife LP earlier. The album is an excellent listen and frames everyone that prematurely made “Best of 2013” lists in Mid-November as pretty foolish. It seems the Physics have taken a turn towards slick R&B here, as Digital Wildlife yields some […]
Sound Excited podcast #13 brought us Peter Quirk of the Cave Singers. The Seattle band expanded to a four-man operation earlier this year, as they recorded and released their new album Naomi. Peter and I discussed the evolution to a more optimistic sound from previous record No Witch to Naomi, the addition of member Morgan Henderson (Fleet Foxes), working with producer […]