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LOS CAMPESINOS!
"Los Campesinos" means “the peasants” in Spanish. For the Welsh indie-pop septet that is treated as royalty in the eyes of the critics, the name for this band is especially ironic. Their sound is ultra-layered, often resulting in the chime of a glockenspiel dueling with sweet violin, gurgling synth tangling around a...  [continue reading]


THE MALDIVES
I'd been hearing a lot about The Maldives for a while these past few months. Being relatively new to Seattle it can be overwhelming trying to figure out which bands to check out since music permeates this city to its core. But all of a sudden...  [continue reading]



PYLON
To describe Pylon as ahead of their time is somewhat misleading, because it implies that there was ever a moment when music finally caught up...  [continue reading]



SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
Like many bands before them, School of Seven Bells were born as the result of a late-night revelation. Benjamin Curtis connected with sisters Alejandra...  [continue reading]



MIIKE SNOW
We've been hearing songs from this Miike Snow all summer long of 2009. "Who is this new guy?," we wondered silently to ourselves several times as...  [continue reading]



DIRTY PROJECTORS
In 2002 David Longstreth released The Graceful Fallen Mango under his own name. A year later, The Glad Fact reintroduced his experimental rock...  [continue reading]



EARLY DAY MINERS
Early Day Miners are a 'musical-cooperative' based in the rolling hills of Bloomington, Indiana. The group formed when Daniel Burton and Rory...  [continue reading]



SISTER FA
Sister Fa entered this world in the early '80s in Dakar, the vibrating capital of Senegal. She took her first steps in music back in 2000 by getting acquainted with the local rap...  [continue reading]



THE THERMALS
Hi, we're The Thermals. We're a three-piece alternative/indie/punk band. We live in Portland, Oregon. You know, the place all your friends are moving. So they can...  [continue reading]



JOHN VANDERSLICE
John Vanderslice's albums have gained critical acclaim for their melodic quality and sophisticated narrative lyrical content. In 2000, he gained national media...  [continue reading]



THE HORRORS
The Horrors have their origin in the early 2000s where they became interested in obscure vinyl and DJing. During trips to London and on the Southend circuit, Rhys "Spider"...  [continue reading]



ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS
Their very name, “Ancient Astronauts,” implies a mash-up of the distant past and the far future; traits exemplified in their melding of old school hip hop, funk, and...  [continue reading]



FOALS
Christening themselves Foals in a nod to Yannis’ surname (which means “little lover of horses” in Greek), the band installed themselves in a tiny rehearsal room and....  [continue reading]



FLEET FOXES
Founding members Robin Pecknold & Skye Skjelset grew up listening to the music of their parents. Robin notes, “The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, The Zombies...  [continue reading]



M. WARD
M. Ward's rise to international renown has been something of a slow burn. Initially a well-kept secret of his peers in the Portland folk scene, his star continued to...  [continue reading]



TELEKINESIS
Telekinesis is the project of Michael Benjamin Lerner (second from left above). Michael recorded Telekinesis! at Two Sticks Audio in Seattle with producer Chris Walla (Death Cab... [continue reading]



RA RA RIOT
In 2006, at Syracuse University, Milo Bonacci (guitar / architecture) had an itch to start a new band, something different from the bands he'd played in most of his life. Bonacci...  [continue reading]



ONEIDA
Oneida is a rock band from Brooklyn, New York. Their influences include psychedelic rock, krautrock, and hard rock, but the overall structure and intent of... [continue reading]



LAL MERI
It’s no coincidence that Nancy Kaye, Ireesh Lal and Carmen Rizzo chose
to name their groundbreaking collaboration after the ancient Sufi folk
song, “Lal Meri,” an interpretation which closes... [continue reading]



MICACHU
Micachu is the moniker of major new talent, 21-year-old songwriter and producer, Mica Levi. Despite her relative youth, Mica arrives as something of a Midas touched, Renaissance artist: equally at... [continue reading]



CROCODILES
San Diego's Crocodiles are as dangerous and sneaky as their chosen power animal. The duo, featuring Brandon Welchez of spry rockers The Payers and formerly of... [continue reading]



LONEY DEAR
Hailing from the small city of Jonkoping, Sweden, Loney Dear's primary member Emil Svanängen first began recording homemade, overdubbed tapes of delicate,... [continue reading]



BLK JKS
BLK JKS defy description. With a wrecking crew rhythm section, debonair vocals, and guitar concoction of one part shred and two parts soul, BLK JKS shoot an African music... [continue reading]



EXTRA GOLDEN
Extra Golden was formed rather casually in May of 2004 when Ian Eagleson, Alex Minoff and Otieno Jagwasi began fiddling
with each other’s compositions in... [continue reading]