Blog: Sound On The Sound

Puget Soundings – Hey Joe: seattle’s own coffee compilation

Feb 26, 12:00pm Sound On The Sound

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Pickathon 2013: Shabazz Palaces, Sharon van Etten & So Much More

Feb 20, 3:11pm Sound On The Sound

Pickathon just might be the best music festival in the United States. After my introduction to the idyllic, smoothly run, hot as hell festival last year, I have been counting down the days till our return to Pendarvis Farm. And today, we get the first glimpse into who we'll be hiking into the woods [...]

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A New Postal Service Jam – “Tattered Line of String”

Feb 11, 7:44pm Sound On The Sound

Today brought the first new Postal Service song in a decade with Jenny Lewis on backing vocals. I dig it. Sub Pop offers up some additional details in the youtube comments: To the best of our knowledge at this time, no, The Postal Service is not currently working on new material. And no, "A Tattered [...]

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Nashville’s Wild Club at the Sunset Tonight

Feb 11, 5:09pm Sound On The Sound

Over the past year Nashville's Wild Club has been building an impressive set of video's for nearly every song from last year's debut record Youth (including "Streetlights" featuring photo's from Seattle's Eleanor LoNardo) but it was the "Thunder Clatter" living room party video a few months back (above) that really caught my attention and sent [...]

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Sasquatch 2013, The Countdown Begins

Feb 5, 1:52pm Sound On The Sound

Last night's Sasquatch Launch Party at the Neptune was a mixed bag, an angle the festival itself appears to continuing to strive for. When Mumford and Sons and the Lumineers were the first names listed, I did cringe, but also had to hand it to Adam Zacks for snagging a pair of bands who demand [...]

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The Daily Choice: Bleeding Rainbow – Pink Ruff

Jan 22, 1:52pm Sound On The Sound

I hope Lavar Burton broke some heads to get two-piece Reading Rainbow to change their name to Bleeding Rainbow. I hope Geordie LaForge and his milky white eyes was so pissed at the power-pop-punk noodling of this snappy little group, that he barged in to his manager's double-wide and declared that if he could do [...]

• kaninerecords - Bleeding Rainbow "Pink Ruff"

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Artist:	kaninerecords
Title:	Bleeding Rainbow "Pink Ruff"
File Name:	SoundCloud

The Daily Choice : Psychic Ills – One More Time

Jan 18, 12:26pm Sound On The Sound

You'd think with their skull covered album, that Psychic Ills would be making more sinister, dark music. Maybe the '10s have taken back the skull as something beyond just a looming symbol of death, decay and abject terror, because from what I've heard, this second album from Psychic Ills is a pleasantly psychedelic bit of [...]

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North of Northwest: Ten Favorites from 2012

Jan 17, 2:40pm Sound On The Sound

I could pretend to be cool, to be hip, to be omnipotent, but the truth is I spent about six months last year vacationing off the face of the earth, and I didn't hear nearly as much new music as I normally would have. Thus any claim that I could tell you the ten "best" [...]

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The Daily Choice: Cocktails – Hey Winnie

Jan 16, 12:59pm Sound On The Sound

You can't, if you grew up in the wonder years of The Wonder Years, help but think that Cocktails' newest track "Hey Winnie" might be about Danica McKeller's iconic portrayal of bland-faced Winnie Cooper. And though, I can't find any actual evidence that Cocktails have some long term endearment for Kevin Arnold's lifelong paramour, the song [...]

• Cocktails - Hey Winnie

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Artist:	Cocktails
Title:	Hey Winnie
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Power Pop
Year:	2013

The Daily Choice: Andy Human – Land of the Dinosaurs

Jan 15, 1:54pm Sound On The Sound

Andy Human, solo project of Lenz lead-man Andy Jordan, feels as if it could be appropriate in a sequin covered leotard, a shiny onesie that prism-explodes laserbeams of light as the first spotlight hits it. Not to say that this is disco, or that is this late 70s dance music, oh no, this is punk [...]

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Sharon Van Etten Joins Pickwick on new Single from their Debut Record

Jan 14, 2:41pm Sound On The Sound

Pickwick's just announced the released of their debut record, Can't Talk Medicine, to arrive March 13th, 2013. Before the record arrives, it's lead single with Jagjaguwar's Sharon Van Etten is being packaged up in a covers EP that includes a Damien Jurado cover released last year and new recording of live staple "The Ostrich." [...]

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The Daily Choice: Hellshovel – Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have To Take Me Home

Jan 14, 1:16pm Sound On The Sound

It's the beginning of the year (it still is I swear) and I'm still sifting through the many, many Best of Lists that populated the web over the last two to three months. It's not say that I'm not actively searching for new music, but to be honest, the pickings feel slim, and someone(s) else [...]

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The Daily Choice: Wet Illustrated – Scorpio Wings

Jan 11, 1:47pm Sound On The Sound

Wet Illustrated new single "Scorpio Wings" has all the typical recipes for the old garage rock (are we still as critics allowed to call things "garage rock" in 2013?) - fuzzy guitar, adenoidal vocals, a boom-bap cavalcade of tightly strung snare. Maybe it's a new year, and the overwhelming weight of fuzzed out San Francisco [...]

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Slang – “Handle With Care”

Jan 11, 12:00pm Sound On The Sound

It just might take a super group to cover a supergroup with the kind of pedigree of the Travelling Wilburies. Luckily for Slang and their cover of "Handle with Care," they meet the description of supergroup, with and without the space.  A duo consisting of Janet Weiss on drums and vox and Drew Grow on [...]

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The Daily Choice: Colleen Green – Time In The World

Jan 10, 2:07pm Sound On The Sound

Colleen Green is a magician, I swear to God, a magician with a bag of tricks that she bought at thrift store. The magic rings that you pull apart are all rusted; the rabbit is a dusty skeleton; the card set she bought is missing two fives and some diamonds. Yet she gets out there, [...]

• Colleen Green - "Time in the World"

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Artist:	Colleen Green
Title:	"Time in the World"
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Cali Jams
Year:	2013

The Daily Choice: The Men – Electric

Jan 9, 1:43pm Sound On The Sound

The Men might have put out the best pure rock 'n' roll album of 2012. Open Your Heart is the kind of big riff, hard-charging, smart rock that we don't get to see very much anymore and to be honest, I was surprised that it came out of The Men's camp. Past albums from the group seemed [...]

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The Daily Choice: The Bad Lovers – Actin’ Strange

Jan 8, 7:17pm Sound On The Sound

The Bad Lovers, a trio of Austin rockers, could've been sucked through as seething time-space wormhole in to the modern day. Though the band looks like your more standard, hipster long-hairs, the sound they craft exists somewhere in The Beatles world pre-Revolver. Short, sharp bursts of twang brush nicely with the McCartney like vocals of [...]

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The Daily Choice: Clover – Mr. Moon

Jan 7, 1:21pm Sound On The Sound

Aquarium Drunkard, as I've said before and I'll say again, is a bastion of great music. Their end-of-year list is as comprehensive and interesting as any I've dug through. They somehow manage to cultivate a special little world that plays towards record collectors and fans of new music. On any given day you can meander [...]

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The Daily Choice: Wooden Wand – Supermoon

Jan 4, 12:51pm Sound On The Sound

Wooden Wand - 'Supermoon' from fire records on Vimeo. James Jackson Toth is the sort of prolific genius that you can get lost in. Just as soon you find yourself devouring his most recent record, he's released another, and then another and then another, each and all worthy of repeated listens. Don't even get me [...]

• Wooden Wand - Southern Colorado Song

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Artist:	Wooden Wand
Title:	Southern Colorado Song
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Americana

NYE with Pickwick

Jan 3, 3:00pm Sound On The Sound

We rang in the New Year at a sold-out Showbox with Galen and the gang who are currently ramping up for the self-release of their debut LP come Spring. Seattle hasn't seen Pickwick since the 4th of July at Gasworks and it's been February since they've had a proper club date, but they have been doing shorter [...]

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