2011: My Year In Records
A year end albums list is kind of a strange thing, especially when it’s one person compiling it. Since this blog is a committe of one, it can become quite capricious. In all likelyhood I wrote about...
View ArticleIt’s Happening Right Now Down There
Holy cow! There’s a crazy amount of great music happening in Australia at the moment. The epicenter seems to be the city of Melbourne. It’s like a rat colony down there, where the band population...
View ArticleTop 40 Singles of 2012: 20 – 11
11. Kelley Stoltz – Caroline (Les Disques Steak) How many songs have been written about Caroline? Who knows? Kelley Stoltz adds one more to the list, but instead of being about Caroline it’s about all...
View ArticleA Belated List: Top 40 7-Inch Singles of 2014
If they keep putting them out, I’ll keep buying them and counting them down. Here’s my take on the 2014 singles scene. You don’t need eharmony to find a great single, just peruse this list. 1....
View ArticleSo Much Water So Close To Home
After a couple singles, Zebra Hunt, the Pacific Northwest’s foremost purveyors of the Dunnedin sound have released an album. City Sighs has obviously been influenced by the classic Flying Nun sound of...
View ArticleJangly Good Times with Twerps at the Sunset
I remember seeing the Lucksmiths eight or nine years ago at the Sunset in Ballard and getting into a conversation with someone at the show about how strange it was for a band to travel half way around...
View ArticleBest Ones of the Year So Far
This was supposed to be a mid-year list. Actually it still is, but it’s month late. What does that make it? I’m still calling it a mid year list since I saw mid year lists in May. It’s also not as...
View ArticleBest of Something
I hope you looking for a few more records to buy before the wave of 2016 releases hits I didn’t count them and they’re in no particular order but each album won in its own unique category. I don’t have...
View ArticleZebra Hunt Phasing Into the Sunset
Zebra Hunt, Unlikely Friends & Seacats at the Sunset Tavern, Seattle | 2 June 2017 Over the last five years it seems like many of my favorite Seattle bands have either broken up or left town. A few...
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