Amid the boarded tenements and half-built condos on the fringes of the South Lake Union and Eastlake neighborhoods, you’ll find…
This was a very close race, but the winner is The Highline by a soy nugget. Jokes aside, this 3-year-old…
Blue Sky Black Death may have its roots in indie/true school hip-hop—and the production credits to prove it (Guru, Jean…
Jarv Dee snaps off rhymes that roll and stutter like a snare line; his sinus-whine raps and wide-eyed projection bounce…
Dave B: rapping young person; 2013 EMP Sound Off! champion; charismatic galaxy defender. B just released a video for the…
Once when Kate Finn was in high school, she called her local hip-hop radio station and left a 30-second rap…
Grimes is playing a free show at the Paramount tonight, which by itself is fantastic news, but this performance, hosted…
As a most-of-the-time member of late Ballard rap crew Bedroom Stompers, Staga Roach radiated heat on tracks, issuing pot-shots from…
Tonight, the party gods will sacrifice three great bands on the Black Lodge floor. Portland headliners Hausu are alternately Cure-level…
As the instrumental mastermind behind Seattle’s indie-rap power act Grieves & Budo (and Macklemore’s first album, The Language of My…
Multi-faceted, multi-tasking Seattle artist Hollis Wong-Wear is in the zone. She produces videos for Macklemore, manages operations for The Blue…
Sub Verses, the freshly-released sixth studio album by New York-born psych outfit Akron/Family, begins with “No-Room”’s charging drum line, quickly…
Speed and volume are the punch and pie at Gaytheist’s metaphorical audio fiesta. The Portland trio hits its listener in…
A RNDM show is at least interesting for the names that make up the headlining act. Surely you’re curious to…
The last time this Toronto trio came through town, they opened for The Men downstairs at Barboza, so they’re, like,…
Five months ago, before Harley Streten had released an album or set foot on North American soil, New York Times…
Iceage is a young bunch of punks from Copenhagen. That we already knew. We also knew that they make brooding,…
Artist: Sax G Album:Tu Me Manques Label: Cloud Nice Release Date: March 12, 2013 Tu Me Manques (in French: “I…
About a decade ago, I saw New York’s crypto-rap god Aesop Rock freestyle on stage at a show in the…
Akimbo, bro. Their final album, titled Live to Crush, will indeed land in “record stores” sometime this spring on the…
Pete Quirk has always had a powerful imagination. He’s penned songs about highway towns and trains whistlin’ over blizzards and…
My cellphoneAfrocopThis is more of a quick eulogy than a formal review, especially since I left early to catch Radiation…
Radiation CityAfter I left the Stepping Stone, I made the half-mile walk south to the Tractor, and got there right…
