The Lonely Forest, the Oregon Donor and the Violins all played the Vera Project last Thursday. Arrows, the Lonely Forest’s first release with Trans Records, comes out on March 22nd – I am listening to it right now and it’s sounding beautiful. They’re currently on tour with the Joy Formidable. The Oregon Donor & the […]
We’ve got a poem review of Peter Murphy‘s appearance last night in Seattle, courtesy of the Gothic Nibbler: To finally see this man was strange The venue was kind of a dump His voice was good, with powerful range The gothic chicks were plump We’d come there on a nostalgic whim Humming “Deep Ocean Vast […]
Lords of Acid are in Seattle tomorrow night – that’s Sunday, March 6th – at Studio Seven. Their show last year was exquisite and I would expect nothing less, and probably more from Sunday’s show. I am told the band is playing two brand new songs from the Lords of Acid album currently in production […]
You could spend a very long time trying to figure out what all these songs Girl Talk (aka Greg Gillis) has strung together on his CD, All Day, and that’s part of the fun. The other part of the fun is that Girl Talk’s mashed up and mixed many excellent songs together – and in […]
Denmark’s New Politics is a fabulous combination of loud rap and even louder rock. The rock elements tend toward grunge and punk, and the way singers David Boyd and Søren Hansen position their vocals balances all these aspects effectively. Their debut, New Politics, was one of 2010’s very best, including ten leaping songs that are […]