Seattle
Track: Benjamin Verdoes – Night Walker
You might have come across Seattle beatmaker Benjamin Verdoes through his eccentric and unpredictable songwriting in Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band. Since those days, he’s honed his skills as a producer and beatmaker, as witnessed by his previous solo effort, The Evil Eye. Out today via Brick Lane Records is a new EP, The One …
Track: La Luz – Don’t Wanna Be Anywhere, plus October tour dates
In 2013 they released their debut album, had a high-speed car accident and then returned to tour like the troopers they are. Now self-styled ‘surf-noir’ Seattle band La Luz are back with a new track from their forthcoming second album. Don’t Wanna Be Anywhere is the second single from Weirdo Shrine and has all the twanging …
Track: Seapony – Let Go
Seattle’s Seapony are back after nearly two years with new album A Vision due to be released on 31 July. Let Go is the second single from the album and is just under three minutes of breezy surf pop perfection. Jen Weidl’s dreamy vocals and Danny Rowland’s jangling guitar combine with a touch of synth …
Premiere: The Great Goddamn release new video for A terrible knowledge
Seattle based slugde punks The Great Goddamn have been demanding attention with their messy, noisey, riff-heavy stoner rock. That’s likely to be increased further with the release of their new album, Bangers and Hash, which sees the duo (yes, there’s just two of them making all that glorious racket) Brian and Blake, add eight more …
New Music: Tangerine – Nothing Better
Back in late August we were helped into autumnal slumber by the gentle swells of “Feel This Way”. Seattle, Washington’s Tangerine are back in action this month with a new single. Lead track “Nothing Better” premiered through MTV’s Buzzworthy in late March and there’s plenty to justify that level of endorsement. That same sense of …
Mark Yarm – Everybody Loves Our Town: an oral history of Grunge
It gradually occurred to me, as I was reading this excellent and enjoyable oral history, that I didn’t, still don’t really like Grunge, or at least, any of the acts that this jerry-rigged genre supposedly covers. I briefly entertained Pearl Jam, although it was a pretty standard bit of teenage bandwaggoning – they were hip, …