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Summer Cocktails with Big Gin, Double Mountain Hopped Whiskey, and Trail’s End
It’s summer, and our friends at Hood River Distillers (whose selections feature our favorites Big Gin, Double Mountain Hopped Whiskey, and Trail’s End) put together a few summer cocktails to help you pack for Timber! Outdoor Music Festival. Hop Farm Sour By Jacob Grier 1 ½ oz. Double Mountain Hopped Whiskey 1 oz. lemon juice…
Read MoreArtist Home Premiere: “Dandelion Seeds,” by General Mojo’s
The Seattle powerhouse that is General Mojo’s plays trippy, psychedelic music that floats, sits, examines and is taken by the breeze again. Co-fronted by Heather Thomas, a standout vocalist and one of the city’s best drummers, General Mojo’s have set their sights on a July 6th EP release with Vaudeville Etiquette at the Southgate Roller…
Read MoreLife-Changing Live Shows, Part 1: Tom Jones, Soul Singer
Conventional wisdom states that you shouldn’t write a review about a concert more than a week after you’ve seen it. I respectfully submit a formal proposal to screw that noise. A few weekends ago, I saw two childhood heroes of mine—musicians whose work is practically part of my DNA—play live. Something that significant is worth…
Read MoreArtist Home Premiere: Kilcid Band’s “The Good Get Gone”
You might not have heard of the Seattle five-piece, Kilcid Band, but you’re likely going to start hearing more and more from the talented group. And today, we’re happy to premiere their new music video the group made for their single, “The Good Get Gone,” an earworm of a track featuring sticky synths and falsetto…
Read MoreArtist Home Premiere: “All That’s Flesh is Grass” by Planes on Paper
The Yakima Valley-based folk band, Planes on Paper, is releasing a new album May 31st, a 10-track LP called Edge Markings. The album is intricate and dark but also beautiful and buoyant. And we’re happy to premiere the newest single from the record, “All That’s Flesh Is Grass,” a song that wonders how the future…
Read More#WeRideWhy Mother’s Day Trailer
We were so floored the other day to have been sent this article featuring so many familiar faces, including SMI founder Greg Roth and annual Timber! attendee Ashley Berg and her daughter, Piper. The reason for the article is “a forthcoming documentary film about cycling, cancer, mothers, their children and healing” called #WeRideWhy. So check…
Read MoreSeattle Band Wiscon Breaking Up After Reaching ‘The Finish Line’
Seattle pop-punk band Wiscon is breaking up. The band’s final show is this Friday at the Lo-Fi performance gallery (tickets available here). At the show, the group will release copies of their new record, The Finish Line, an energetic four-song EP featuring synths, quick rhythms and lyrics about, among other things, The Wizard Of Oz.…
Read MoreArtist Home Interview and Premiere: Whitney Lyman’s Mystical “Like the Ox”
Seattle’s lilting-voiced singer Whitney Lyman is ready. On Tuesday, she will release her latest LP, Pleasure/Pain, with a show at the Triple Door (tickets here). The record’s a sweeping, theatrical work traveling from bright joy to quizzical melancholy. Backed by large chamber ensemble, Lyman, who recently played KEXP and Jimmy Kimmel Live with the famed…
Read MoreThe Sacred and the Sensual Mingle on Vox Mod’s “Sense of Us”
The striking Frank Correa cover art for Sense of Us, the new release from Seattle electronica artist Vox Mod, depicts dual images of the musician (born Scot Porter) nude in a yin yang/fetal position, in the center of a tableau that’s somewhere between a coral reef and a psychedelic cellular organism. It’s an apt visual…
Read MoreArtist Home Interview: Sera Cahoone on Reinterpreting Her Songs
Seattle musician Sera Cahoone contains multitudes. In one moment, she’s a delicate acoustic guitar player, lending her voice to a song as strings swell and fall behind her. In another, she’s a ball of energy on the mic or while banging on a booming drum kit. Her latest accomplishment is a seven song EP showcasing…
Read MoreArtist Home Premiere: “Running for Cover” by Warren Dunes
NEW MUSIC ALERT! Today, the Seattle-based band Warren Dunes, released their latest single, “Running For Cover,” and we get to premiere it! So, check it out here: And to celebrate the event, we wanted to talk with Warren Dunes front woman Julia Massey, the uber-talented, warm-souled singer and songwriter about the band’s recent history, the…
Read MoreTwo PNW Artists Tell it Like it Is on Video
News flash (not): This country’s pretty fucked right now. And maddeningly enough, that deeply profound state of fuckery is rooted in the elemental fact that even ideals that we hold to be self-evident can be yanked out from under us if we’re not vigilant. The most ostensibly obvious tenets of our country, the things that…
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