photos by Greg Cristman Japan post-rock favorites Mono played a pair of NYC shows as part of their US tour , hitting Le Poisson Rouge on 9/14 followed by Glasslands on 9/15 . Pictures from Friday (9/14) are below. Chris Brokaw of Codeine opened both dates, and will continue to do so on all dates on the Mono tour. Chris scored [...]
Sigur Rós plays on Wednesday at Paramount As we recover from a beautiful (and hot!) weekend in Seattle, we have a whole crop of new and amazing shows to share with you this week. We start off slowly with some great small club shows at the Tractor with Phosphorescent and Mimicking Birds, and at the Sunset with Southeast Engine and Danielle Henry . Tuesday night, we recommend a great show at Neptune Theatre with Sharon Van Etten, Tennis, and Lemolo . [...]
It's Capitol Hill Block Party weekend and the Hill is going to be booming! We've got some other great shows to share with you this week as well. On Tuesday night, Talib Kweli, J.Pinder, Raz, and DJ Vega The Virgo are at the Crocodile, J. Pinder has a free in-store at Easy Street Records inQueen Anne, and Dan Sartain, Teenage Bedroom, and The Apollos are at Fun House. Wednesday, Sidi Touré, Garage Voice, and Atlantic Melody are at the Crocodile, and The Soft White [...]
Seattle-based quartet BROKAW have confirmed several Summer performances where they will unleash their noise-rock antagonism upon the attending audiences. Noisemongers BROKAW are regionally-infamous for their raging live performances, where the mic stand frequently invades the audience's turf as much as the stage, while the band pummels the room with oppressively amplified riff mayhem. The [...]
Washed Out, in the KEXP studios 2011-10-07 // photo credit: Dave Lichterman ( more photos ) A light schedule of shows for the week. Tuesday starts with Lambchop and Alina Hardin at Tractor, Wednesday has a great show at the Neptune with Washed Out and Memoryhouse , and across town, Yuni In Taxco, Feral Children, and Dark State Lines are at the sizzling hot new Barboza venue at Neumos. On Thursday, there's a Folklife Festival preview at the Tractor with Big Sur, Denver, and Annie [...]
[Scene opens in dimly lit lecture hall at a generic university in Anywhere, USA. Students are already seated at their desks with their backs facing against invisible lens. Notebooks are placed in a subordinate position throughout the lecture hall. In some quarters the faint glow of personal computers and smart-phones shed light on youthful, impressionable [...]
M83 / photo by Dave Lichterman When the weather starts getting better in Seattle, so do the shows. This week we start with a great show at the Crocodile with School Of Seven Bells and Exitmusic , Tanlines are at Neumos, and the first of two nights begins with Bettye LaVette at Jazz Alley. On Wednesday, DJ Shadow is at Showbox at the Market, Matthew Sweet plays "Girlfriend" in its entirety for the first of two nights at the Triple Door, Frankie Rose and [...]
There have been so many notable new releases that dropped in the past week that music lovers have plenty of great, new music to keep them busy, and which explains partly why we're late with this post (this week's releases will be posted soon, but first the really good stuff). While January is usually a [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
If 2012 is really the apocalypse, we'll at least be serenaded by lots of great music as our world goes up in flames. Yes, it's another great week of new releases filled with KEXP favorites, new and old. In fact, we've long been fans of Nada Surf , who return with their sixth album this week, which according to our Music Director, Don Yates, "finds them injecting some welcome additional energy and aggression into their melodic pop-rock sound via quicker tempos and some bristling electric guitar lines." Fans needn't fear that the New York band is trying to recapture [...]
If you are anything like me, you're so sick of all this cocaine that you can't even get high off of! snow on the ground that you don't know what to do with yourself. For days it's just been you and your space heater. The worst part is, the warmth that your little heater generates [...]
Pickwick ::: photo by Christopher Nelson We had another incredible year here at Sound on the Sound and it was in large part thanks to the following MVPs and, of course, you guys reading this. These were the artists, albums, labels, festivals and well, your dancing, that inspired and impressed us most and these are the [...]
200X, so many great memories from that year Here is another project from one of our most popular artists, Cassidy Demarco (Gouseion, Brokaw, Casiocity). We're pretty much saving this release from obscurity I believe, and if you're a fan of any of the other works by Cassidy that we've posted up here, or any of his work as Gouseion you'll greatly appreciate this. Recorded in 2005 at the height of the mash-up/remix craze (see Ratatat , Diplo , Glitch Mob , Etc.) this was Ca$io's own take on some club hits, [...]
The Ghosts of Brokaw Here is, at long last, Brokaw's full length album Nonconflo. Well, kind of. Brokaw began around 2002 in Portland and consisted of Cassidy Demarco AKA Casiocity on music and Chip Brokaw AKA Colin Jones on rhymes. They were a staple of Portland's small Hip-Hop world for about five years, releasing homemade CD's on their independent label Diss Company and playing out on a regular basis around town. At some point around 2005/2006 it seemed as if they were poised [...]
BrooklynVegan
KEXP Blog
NeuFutur Magazine
Sound On The Sound
Indie Rock Podcast Stream
ALWAYSONTHEBRINK
The National – Graceless
