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MP3: Witch Gardens - Standard Poodle It's no shock at all that Witch Gardens released another ace sounding 7 inch. Get a copy of R-I-P from Waterwing Records and (for a limited time) download it for free on their Bandcamp . Do it.
This Thursday through Saturday, April 19-21, the University of Washington and the U-District communities are celebrating HuskyFest , three days of music, visual arts, literature and theater on the university campus and centered around a large tented pavilion on Red Square. KEXP is proud to sponsor this multicultural event, especially because they're offering lots of free music! Here are the highlights of local artists performing at the pavilion: Thursday: 11:30 AM - Craft Spells 12:30 PM - The Pharmacy 9:00 PM - The Brick Dance w/ The Rapture DJs, DJ [...]
Real Estate perform on Friday as part of Little Big Show #2 with proceeds benefitting Coyote Central photo by Dave Lichterman This weeks shows start off with Jeff Magnum (of Neutral Milk Hotel) performing the first of two nights at the Moore Theatre on Monday night, and Porcelain Raft at the Crocodile. On Tuesday, Absolute Monarchs start their local reign with a performance at Easy Street Records in Queen Anne. Wednesday night, The Moondoggies are at the Triple Door, The White Buffalo is at Crocodile, Pontiak, [...]
Edmonton, Canada I started HAPPY TRENDY in the winter of 2010 as an outlet to expressing myself in a form more personal than what I was creating at that time. It's easy to fall into the trap of focusing on everything and everyone but yourself, and I guess this was my idea of circumventing that. It was really just an experiment, and it still is. I never have [...]
I took a year off from doing a favorite Seattle records list due to lazyitis (sorry Seattle). Here's my top ten records from my fair city for 2011 (sorry Seattle). 1. Seapony - Go With Me ( Hardly Art ) Twee is alive and well in Seattle. Seapony kind of came out of nowhere late last year. They put their debut album out on local label Hardly Art, played countless shows around town and generally put the Northwest back on the map when [...]
Still Corners, Ganglians and Witch Gardens at the Sunset Tavern, Seattle | 1 November 2011 The record that got Still Corners noticed was their Don't Fall In Love 7-inch on the Great Pop Supplement from last year. It was stark, icy and sounded like it came from a band wise beyond its years. Singer Tessa Murray had a haunting voice that sounded like Julie Cruise and the band sounded like they existed on a diet of [...]
Reverb is just our kind of music festival. Its purely local, its mostly about the little guys and with over 70 bands for just $15 ($10 for under 212ers), it is the cheapest festival in town that isn't free. Sure, there's no international headliners, but the point of Reverb is to show we've got the [...]
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MP3: Witch Gardens - Rain Delay There is nothing out there that sounds like the kind of good that Witch Gardens is. Rain Delay b/w Goodbye Ball is their newest 7 inch and it's out October 25th on Highfives and Handshakes .
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MP3: Witch Gardens - Rain Delay There is nothing out there that sounds like the kind of good that Witch Gardens is. Rain Delay b/w Goodbye Ball is their newest 7 inch and it's out October 25th on Highfives and Handshakes .
Facebook Seattle's Witch Gardens return with a new limited (to 300 copies) 7" "Rain Delay" which is released October 25th via Highfives and Handshakes . "Rain Delay" is murky and raw, a tornado of fuzzed up noise which is also possibly their best track. Guitar thrashing sludge, thunderbolt drumming and sweetly sung harmonies combine to perfection for a short, sharp blast of immensely fun DIY indie pop. "Goodbye Ball" drops the tempo and some of the reverb allowing the guitars to jangle amongst languid vocals, shimmering and beautiful [...]
Speaking of awesome local Summer Festivals, multi-use space, gallery and label Cairo are hosting their first annual Vibrations Festival tomorrow at Volunteer Park and it's free. Cairo's put together a stellar line-up of bands from San Francisco to Seattle to kick off the Festival and you'll want to bring your picnic blanket and your dancing [...]
Cairo 's plans for world domination trudge on, with barely a wince or flinch from the destruction left in its wake. This Saturday, August 20th , the multi-faceted art & music venue/boutique/label (you might have heard about their first album here ) enters into the festival fray with a zero dollar admission concert in one of the country's most carefully and beautifully designed urban parks, that of Volunteer. (Designed by a pair of bros. who copied their dad's design of Central Park! Yes, that Central Park! Plus, like, the entire city of [...]
We spent part of our weekend at an awesome DIY rock festival (more on that later), which makes us especially amped for this "trailer" for Pizza Fest 2011 another killer annual DIY festival held at The Funhouse. A three night festival this year on August 4th - 6th, Pizza Fest is all about partying and [...]
THE INDELICATES - DAVID KORESH SUPERSTAR Before the blog enters a period of silence - while I pop my Glastonbury cherry - a few tracks that really should've been shouted from the roof tops months ago. First up a concept album from The Indelicates, the band responsible for " Savages " a tune somewhat ridiculously awarded 2nd best track of 2010 by this here blogger - I say ridiculous because it clearly should've been No.1! Back in 2004 the Indelicates were busy rehearsing their hit fringe musical [...]
Facebook / http://witchgardens.bandcamp.c om/ Witch Gardens bio states that the group are "four friends who love playing music together and writing songs in the kitchen of the modest home where ½ of the band live". A distinctly raw and murky haze is a trademark of the groups lo-fi garage pop-rock sound. Reverb heavy, jangly guitars weave around like a spiders web. Sometimes indistinguishable, but saccharine sweet vocal harmonies are delivered with gusto and a muffled but prominent drum beat. It feels bedroom made and the approach is simplistic, sticking [...]
Craft Spells, The Soft Moon and Which Gardens at Vera Project, Seattle | 3 April 2011 I was ready to title this with some reference to OMD 's Architecture and Morality or New Order 's Power Corruption and Lies. Hell, just look at the cover to Craft Spells album Idle Labor and you get the feeling that it's an unabashed homage to New Order. Listen to it and your suspicions are confirmed. It's full of synthesizers and electronic [...]
Witch Gardens - Fiesta Texas Seattle's Witch Gardens pick up on the trend on low and calming vocal harmonies over more rocking vocals seen most recently by groups like Frankie Rose and The Outs . Like Frankie Rose, Witch Gardens' sound has reminiscent strands of 60's girl groups in their harmonies, but Witch Gardens utterances are made even more ethereal through the production styles echoing fade on new tracks [...]
Local DIY radio station Hollow Earth Radio is getting ready for its fourth annual Magma Festival this March and while the video announcing the line-up might give you nightmares, the bevy of great local and national acts that are playing won't. A $60 donation to Hollow Earth, will not only help the volunteer run, non-profit [...]
Witch Garden's "Fiesta, Texas" is a brilliant little bit of indie-rock collage. It opens with a lilting lo-fi melody you might've found in the now hallowed halls of Mountain Man, but before you can chew a piece straw and daydream about the great wide open, it's clattered and clanged in to whole different robot. All [...]
MP3: Witch Gardens - Fiesta Texas It's tough to pick which half of this new jam from Seattle's Witch Gardens sounds better: the high, chiming pop march that kicks Fiesta Texas off, or the clattering indie rock it morphs into. Either way, these dudes aren't short on ideas: the hooks and "sweet riffs" in this track pretty much jostle for space and that could have something to do with their extreme youth (um, I think? They look real young?) because as cliched as it might be, there's no denying that exuberance comes more easily [...]
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