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This is a good time of year to contemplate death and the inevitability of change and decay. The leaves fall and the flowers fade; the cornstalk withers and the punkin is a-rotting on the vine. Christmas snow hasn’t come and Indian summer is gone like Frank Sinatra. This is a good time of year to identify with creepy black-and-white movies of yore with the inevitable bell tolling at graveside encircled by ravens, and the time is ripe for a musical group that encapsulates said black-and-white bell tower. Enter Seattle’s newest group, The Nine Tailors, a group composed of acoustic poets from the band Jubilee.

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Hello, again. The unexpected hostility and general negativity as well as the quite predictable snobbery that I have heard directed towards Owl City from ignorant and cynical Gen X singles and their publishers has convicted and convinced me that perhaps I should have interpreted my conversation with Adam Young a bit more for the general public.
So Owl City stirs together a sound yummy enough to make the maddening crowd bounce off the walls: you might expect that Grim Eaters are going to sniff, and necessarily, hipsters are bound to squirm while they wait it out to see whether it’s more damnable to love him or leave him. N.B. Owl City isn’t called Postal Service, Jr.; Adam Young isn’t Incredi-Boy or Michael Cera hooking a date by dork-appeal.  Believe it or not, dork-appeal just isn’t that appealing. N.B. Please, whether you are on first-name terms with Ben and Zoe or not, watch your language.
That said, Why Hello, Owl City: TAKE TWO. Is that allowed?
“Meet Adam Young, the 23 year old front-man of a global sensation. Sporting a respectfully black suit, he skips to the front of the stage – yes, he does – and waves awkwardly while tweeny-bopping Read more

The crowd at the hot Spokane venue The Filling Station undulated like a wind-swept sea. A black-suited man skipped across the black stage and was framed by a spotlight. He waved, awkwardly. A 15 year-old girl somewhere in that crowd, I’m sure, fainted. Hello, Owl City.

An inspiration to insomniacs everywhere, Adam Young spent the owlish hours of the night sprinkling fairy-dust on electronika and the pensive cynicism of Gen X groups like Postal Service. “I can’t sleep unless I take sleeping pills,” he says, Read more

It “fills me with joy” to make music, says Sean Scolnick, the very slim guitar-man of Langhorne Slim. “It’s like singing or dancing when you’re alone and in the shower. Before I played guitar, I felt like I needed to make something – I’m lucky that I stumbled across guitar. I don’t know what makes you want do the things that you want to do – it’s just something inside of you that wants to come out, as somebody I think once said.” Read more

At 8.00 p.m. we quite magically waltzed through the black door in the brick wall. There we were, the Goonite Club, 69 Rosebury Ave, Clerkenwell, London, ECIR4RL, a location that not even MapQuest could find that we reached through a metro station of which no one seemed to be particularly aware. Never mind, we were there, and on time. A muddy hall opened into a dark room with brightish youngish punkish things vaguely rocking out, and a man in a striped shirt shook my hand. “Ian,” he introduced himself, “Shall we have a drink?” Read more

The sound of Desolation Wilderness is a collage of punk-rock ethic and dream pop sound layered between postcards and pictures of uncertain date.  Free your mind of desolation and forget about wilderness, unless your idea of wilderness connotes a happily ambivalent vagabond.  The music of this Olympia, Washington band is a beachy-keen flash of dreamy ambient-pop that’s a little retro and more than a little happy-go-lucky.  The sound of Desolation Wilderness echoes back like Read more

The hardcore Balkan frenzy of Why I Must Be Careful is careening across the northwest from the band’s Portland home;last February, I caught it alighting on the Fontee Fest.  The room exploded with the electric thunder of Seth Brown’s Rhodes piano and John Niekrasz’ drums.  The instrumentals led directly to the band’s staccato recitations of backward verse and upside down lyric and back to the Tasmanian whirl – Brown cycling the keys almost spherically and Niekrasz allotting each drum exactly the correct proportion of power complete the statement and perfect the experience.  The concert?  Why I Must Be Careful is an experience, not a show.  Although your ears might be ringing Read more

The Wallflowers are touring in celebration of the re-release of a collection of favs from 1996-2005 entitled “Collected: 1996-2005,” and those of you who are planning to spend your summers in Moscow should also plan on (TIP: HEADS-UP) the Wallflowers show in Spokane – June 20, 2009, at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox.  I won’t be here, but I am having my own lil celebration that Jakob Dylan is back behind the band for the time being and not experimenting with the untried-and-not-so-true by hisself.

Weinland

Weinland gets both the Most Public-Spirited and the Cutest Best Friend of the Portland folk community yearbook.  They’re honest, they have a strong sense of community, all five of them “avid” chess players, and they always have good things to say. Read more

“A lot of my songs are blues-based and guitar driven. For me, it’s more about the feeling that the sound of the song gives you. I would hope that it gets you to tap your foot and think about how that crazy fool broke your heart!” Read more

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