The wonderfully weird Karl Blau had his newest video premier on Pitchfork today and I thought it was so dorky and good that I had to pass it along to you, dear readers. The song is off Zebra, a head trip of an album that is well worth yr time. Karl...

Magic Vs The Machine is the name of a song by the Nextdoor Neighbors that has gotten stuck in my head a lot in the last year. Magic Vs The Machine is also the name of the pretty brilliant album that contains said song and has an amazing way of being...

Markly Morrison of Brown Interior (Olympia's premier cassette tape label) has been working on an epic Carter Family tribute album. All recorded to handheld cassette recorder- while out on tour, in bands' kitchens, on front porches, etc. The result is...

This fall brought us the new release from Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, namely Know Better Learn Faster. Last year's We Brave Bee Stings and All was a fun romp (one that i just recently got turned onto), but Know Better is just...well, better. It's...

I can rave for hours about the Polka Dots. I was at some of their first (U.S.) shows and was swooning as hard then as I am now, almost three years later. I've lived with them, had adventures with them, and know them to be as amazing at being human as...