Another Rainy Saturday

  Celene Ramadan has been a fixture in the music, theater and improv scenes in Seattle for several years, to the point where I feel like we know each other, though I don’t think we’ve ever actually met.  She’s been (or still is) half of Romeo + Juliet, Colbert Girl, a filmmaker, composer, actor, performance [...]

Hi-Life Soundsystem’s new album Langston Hugh Hefner…Love, Weed and Other Vices pretty much sounds like what you’d expect from an album with that title: some guys who are romantic, intellectual and have a sense of humor. That’s a good thing because the title is great. The hip hop trio of Khingz, B Flat and Crispy [...]

Echoes of Silence is the third album released in 2011 from The Weeknd, a spell-check challenging R&B act from Toronto helmed by singer Abel Tesfaye. All three, House of Balloons, Thursday and now Echoes of Silence, were made available as free downloads from the-weeknd.com and their popularity crashed the site. The Weeknd has sampled Beach House [...]

The good news is abundant in Lioness: Hidden Treasures (Island), the posthumous collection of songs Amy Winehouse recorded through her career dating back to 2002 and before her unfortunate death in July from alcohol poisoning. This collection was clearly assembled with great care by the producers from her two brilliant albums: Salaam Remi and Mark [...]

Angel Echoes isn’t a new Four Tet album, it’s an album of remixes by the likes of Caribou and John Hopkins. Contributors on the record are biggie names the dubstep world, Joy Orbison and Hardhouse Banton among others, and it’s telling with the harder heavier treatment the three tracks of source material get.The flow is [...]