The Head and the Heart—Like a Desert Mirage Dan Alleva October 2, 2019 Features, Interviews After a busy touring schedule in 2018, Seattle’s The Head and the Heart found themselves in a unique position once they began to get to work on their next LP. For starters, they were down two founding, integra...
Melvins—Unusual Is Better Gregg McQueen October 2, 2019 Buzz, Features The Melvins hail from the small town of Montesano, Washington, but it’s not hard to envision them being spawned from an ancient tar pit instead, emerging from the bubbly ooze, instruments in hand, ready to sla...
White Denim—Feeling the Side Effects Dan Alleva October 2, 2019 Features, Interviews Erudite students of everything from The Minutemen to Yes, the members of White Denim are true record collectors at heart, soaking up sounds from every corner of the musical spectrum, and ameliorating the juxta...
Mudhoney—Replaced by Nothing Dan Alleva September 25, 2019 Features, Interviews With their 2018 LP Digital Garbage, and their new EP Morning in America, Mudhoney are back, offering up musical reflections on the dangerously bizarre political discourse happening in the United States today, ...
Richie Ramone—Too Tough to Die Dan Alleva September 11, 2019 Features, Interviews Born Richard Reinhardt in Passaic, New Jersey in 1957, drummer Richie Ramone joined the Ramones in 1983, during a time in which the group was struggling to find its footing in the post-punk and pre-grunge eigh...
Lloyd Cole—It’s Complicated Rey Roldan September 11, 2019 Features, Interviews While Guesswork is the name of his new album, it also describes what it’s like interviewing Lloyd Cole, one of the original indie darlings. Long before Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens and Father John Mist...
Stephanie Seymour: There Are Birds… and Stories to Tell Debra Kate Schafer September 11, 2019 Buzz, Features Bird lovers and music fans, this is the crossover you didn’t know you needed. Stephanie Seymour, a local musician and avid birdwatcher, has brought two unlikely interests together to create something magnifice...
Stone Temple Pilots—Long Way Home Samantha Curreli September 4, 2019 Features, Interviews In 1992, Stone Temple Pilots exploded onto the music scene. When their debut album, Core, landed at #3 on Billboard, they skyrocketed into the spotlight, clenching their first Grammy in 1993. The next year, th...
PUP—A Song for Everybody Acacia Pyle September 4, 2019 Buzz, Features It is an inarguable fact that PUP has never stopped putting in the hard work of being a rock band. For their 2016 album The Dream is Over, the group completed an astounding 250 performances, and in the interim...
Eddie Edwards of The Vibrators: Pure Mania Nick Perkel September 4, 2019 Features The Vibrators, formed in 1976, were part of the first wave of punk musicians from the United Kingdom. John ‘Eddie’ Edwards is the founding drummer and has always been part of the band. Nigel Bennett has been t...
