Another Rainy Saturday

  D Tour trailer from Jim Granato on Vimeo. {D Tour plays at the Northwest Film Forum from July 9-11. Director Jim Granato is scheduled to attend all screenings.} At the beginning of the engrossing documentary D-Tour, Pat Spurgeon explains that he always wanted to be a musician his entire life, to the point where [...]

The Rumble is a monthly event held on the first Monday of each month at Havana, on Capitol Hill. It’s always a free event, which makes for an excellent opportunity to check out some up-and-coming bands. The idea is that most of the same bands tour the west coast briefly and there is an infrastructure in [...]

I’ve been quite taken with the UK sensation Marina and the Diamonds and her absolutely fantastic debut album The Family Jewels to the point where I ordered it as a very expensive import to get it a month before its US release in May. Now, a new video was released for the single “Oh No!” and [...]

We’ve been hearing nothing but good things about Fol Chen ever since their set opening for Liars a few months ago at Neumos. Now the LA-based experimental pop band is set to release their sophomore album Part II: The New December on July 6 on Asthmatic Kitty. Three days later, on July 9, they are [...]

Photo of Flavor Flav at Sasquatch by Alex Crick. Over at KEXP Blog, I contributed to their 33 1/3 Odyssey series by interviewing one of my very favorite music writers, Christopher R. Weingarten. His excellent book on Public Enemy’s classic album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back was recently published by Continuum. You [...]