Longtime friend and Effectsbay/Rattlesnake Cables/Pedal Labels mastermind Hank Donovan recently reached out to me about a band he’s been working with for the past few years, Missoula Montana’s Magpies. This raucous indie-rock quartet has just released their newest effort, Tornado, and it’s a doozy. While Donovan handles guitar, the band is filled out by singing guitarist […]
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Pacific Northwest musicians have been telling me for ages to listen to Lo’ There Do I See My Brother, but it wasn’t until a copy of the much-anticipated Northern Shore dropped into my inbox that I had a chance to actually listen. In regards to waiting this long to listen to them, mistakes were made. From the instrumental […]
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To celebrate 10 years as a band, Seattle’s The Classic Crime is releasing the highly anticipated What Was Done: Volume 1 on October 27th (today!) through BadChristian music. The album is a collection of fan favorites through the years, rearranged as acoustic songs or reinterpreted with the band’s added years of experience. The first and most notable aspect of this project […]
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We’re just over two weeks out from the official drop date of Seattle pop rock band Verlaine‘s full length debut ‘The Open Sea’, and a few days past the band’s successful album release party. Verlaine has been getting plenty of love for their new album, and are kicking into high gear with a few Spring and Summer shows already lined […]
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Eyes and ears all over have rightfully been on Sideonedummy‘s recent signee, Toronto quartet Pup. Poised for a 4/8 release of their debut self-titled, this young band expertly mixes the fun of sunny pop with claws-out punk riffage in the vein of Californians Joyce Manor or New Jersey genre landmark Dads. The band made a big splash […]
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The first I heard of Seattle’s Moneta was six years ago. I fought a crazy cold to see Sherwood at Chop Suey, and one of the opening acts was Moneta (and maybe Madison Drive?). I remember liking the poppy rock I heard, but I was too busy meeting my San Luis Obispo heroes to stop […]
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Over the last few weeks, eclectic Seattle collective Kings Kaleidoscope has generated a ton of buzz over their next release, the ‘Live In Color’ EP. Under a new deal with BadChristian Music, the 10-piece Mars Hill alum has been hard at work preparing for the 3/18 drop date. The free six-song EP was recorded live at Chief Kanim […]
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You don’t just name your band Andrew Jackson Jihad and then decide to play boring music. The Phoenix, AZ veterans are celebrating ten years of bandship with a rocking folk-punk fifth album, SideOneDummy debut Christmas Island. Wacky, satirical, and delightfully demented, the gang has a dozen new songs whose long arms take root in folk-rock but tickle genres of […]
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