Two best friends and ex-lovers come together to create the dual-voiced band, The Echo Friendly. Their release, Love Panic, has quickly found it way into my regular rotation due to its ability to wrap a warm blanket of comfort around ...
If I were okay with naming playlists with obvious names, this would be called The "Justify Spending Your Day Off in Bed With A Sweater and a Cup of Coffee When It's Raining or Snowing Outside" Playlist. It's an important ...
You know the feeling you get when you stumble across a musician you've never heard before, and upon listening to their records you realize... you've heard their music before? Not only that, but you really like the music and had ...
As far as summer usually goes, it can be a mixed bag in the Pacific Northwest. Sometimes, our summer is only a week long, and is more of a hot springtime than a hot summer. Other times, it's a raging, ...
Laura Gibson, hailing from Portland, OR, retains the signature quirkiness of Pacific Northwestern folk artists like Mirah and Kimya Dawson, but her fourth studio album, La Grande, envelopes classic folk music in a cloak of dreamy mystery that pulls you ...
Lana Del Rey's last album was sweet. Sickly sweet. It was syrupy and viscous and while it was rich with luscious depth, it didn't have much in the way of variety, or emotional variance. Her latest release, Ultraviolence, is still ...
Since 2014 seems to be the Year of Contemporary Pop Music Appreciation for me, I'm just going to roll with it. That means that I definitely allowed myself to rock out and sing along to "I Think I Like You," the ...
No, thankfully, I am not offering up a shoebox of poorly constructed mix tapes from my 31 flavors of previous relationships, though that isn't a bad idea... Wait, yes it is. I'm talking about Cassette From My Ex, the book ...
There's no reason not to dig into the past for new (to you), inspiring music with modern day creativity. A few years ago, I stumbled upon Big Noise from Winnetka through the cover by Asylum Street Spankers. It's one of ...
If you have a New Year's resolution to do more cooking at home (which will save you bundles of cash, by the way! Do it! [Mom!]) and you are a music fanatic like me, then this subscription box is about ...
When the colder months roll around, my taste in music seems to go from high energy to supremely chill. (See last year's Winter Holidaze playlist for evidence of that.) There's something about the dropping temperatures and the desire to just ...
I'm proud to put another Pacific Northwestern musician up for Tunesday this week. Well, half of this group, Kimya Dawson, hails from her adopted home of Seattle/Olympia, WA but her cohort in this weird, hipster-hop adventure is San Francisco/New York's ...
There is nothing more friendly to a broke girl's stomach than pho. You can fill your entire stomach with a dazzling array of proteins and... other things... for less than $7 on a daily basis. Not only that, but it's ...
Macklemore - weird name. Way more weird than Ryan Lewis, right? So who are these dudes and why am I writing about them? Well, because it's my website and I am way too into music to not share it with people ...