Among the great contemporary music scene, there is Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside: a group of Portlandites who lend credence to the belief that there’s something in the water over there. On the heels of their great debut (oh, and what a great music video they produced, that I so fell in love with!) comes […]
Vinyl is back, no longer isolated to nostalgists, purists, or the hipster indie crowd. Hell, Best Buy is selling it! Vinyl is becoming a way to buy music again. With another year of higher sales in 2012, the physical conversation pieces are offering connections for those dismayed by the loss they cannot quite identify. Made […]
The idea tells you everything. Lots of times I get ideas, I fall in love with them. Those ones you fall in love with are really special ideas. And, in some ways, I always say, when something’s abstract, the abstractions are hard to put into words unless you’re a poet. These ideas you somehow know. […]
I’ve been a fan of Ken Andrews’ Failure ever since a feisty punk-rock girl trounced me in a drunken argument, humbling me by showing up my ignorance of the band (later, to ease my wounded pride, she married me). In my greasy, perpetually coked-out and hung-over salad days, I played Fantastic Planet to death, forcing […]
My friends in The Broken Bicycles have a new EP called Physics of Sound. Though some tracks are streaming now, a new world is just on the horizon. With a holiday show, this batch of reworked songs are coming out on Valentine’s Day, and for those who think they know the band, they’ll want to […]
