Another Rainy Saturday

ARS friend and Seattle’s favorite outlaws, Brent Amaker & the Rodeo recorded a cover of the Ric Ocasek song “I Can’t Wait.” It will be released as a digital single shortly. With Amaker’s deep voice and country/western vibe, it makes a nice contrast with the original version and sounds quite cool. It’s not terribly common [...]

I don’t usually get too excited for albums made mostly of covers, but I can’t wait for this one, featuring European experimental jazz group The Thing and singer Neneh Cherry. It’ll be called The Cherry Thing and come out in June on Smalltown Supersound. This will be the first album, reportedly, that Cherry has released in 13 [...]

  Harvey Danger’s song “Flagpole Sitta” was easily one of the most played songs of my teenage years in the later 1990s. It was likely one of my first exposures to Seattle music from a band that wasn’t too much older than I was at the time. It eventually became, roughly, my seventeenth favorite Harvey [...]

Sub Pop Records is once again offering their famous “loser” scholarship to eligible high school seniors in Washington and/or Oregon. I’ll include all of the pertinent details below and note that the artist who designed the logo for Another Rainy Saturday was once a runner-up for the scholarship. Good luck to all of the high [...]

Record Store Day is coming next month, on April 21 to a bunch of independent record stores near you. The official list of what is being offered on RSD came out on the official website, so you can check that out here. Last year, I wondered if Record Store Day was becoming too big to [...]