Music
Suffering is Softening with Vagabon’s Latest Album
Performing as Vagabon, multi-instrumentalist Cameroonian-American Laetitia Tamko is the kind of artist whose sound is always evolving. … read more
SUMAC Tours Europe and the UK by Volcanic Storm
Northwest-based trio SUMAC, consisting of guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner, bassist Brian Cook, and drummer Nick Yacyshyn, establishes the voices of our ancestry. … read more
Local Review: Rachael Jenkins — The End
This is a middle finger! This is Punk Rock! And Rachael Jenkins delivers it with a quiet guitar and a quivering voice, but the anger lingers just the same. … read more
Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman of Momma Talk Welcome to...
I sat down for a virtual interview with Momma’s primary singers, songwriters and guitarists, Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman, to discuss Welcome to My Blue Sky. … read more
Localized: Sad Cowboy
Sometimes, a band is greater than the sum of its individual members, and musicians can push each other to greater creative heights through collaboration. … read more
Localized: The Lingo
The music The Lingo makes is more about the experience than any message, with songs that evoke visceral mind-trips instead of imparting coherent lyrical ideas. … read more
Local Music Singles Roundup: May 2025
The through line for all six of these tracks is dissent (except for the ones that aren’t about dissent). Now, just like the past, is a great time for dissent. … read more
Local Review: Henny — In Case of Fear
With an affinity for a well-placed sample of dialogue from an old sitcom or talk radio show, there is an element of effortless mastery in Henny’s sound. … read more
Local Review: Jacob T. Skeen — They Won’t Let Me
Skeen’s fuzzed-up guitar chugs away like a high-powered diesel engine, hitting fast and cutting deep. … read more
Bartees Strange on Horror, Alternate Worlds and George Clinton
I got the chance to dig into the goals of Horror, his personal transformation through the writing of Horror and the greatest of all time: George Clinton. … read more
Local Review: Gracemaker — EP
It’s fast, it’s loud and it makes you mad that you’re subjected to live in a system not of your own design. … read more
SOFT PLAY + Kneecap @ The Depot 04.15.2025
There was never a dead moment in the energy at this show — it’s not often you see an opener compliment the headliner as well as SOFT PLAY managed to do for Kneecap. … read more
