Jesse Lortz, ex-the Dutchess & The Duke, has a solo album out next month via Sacred Bones. The World Is Just a Shape to Fill the Night collects old recordings and demos with new tracks (recorded in…   Read Story »

They don't call it the dead of winter for nothing. (Ooof.) Sorry, but there's no easy segue from our holiday cheer into a post about the bummers of this year. Autumn is harvest, when we pick the new…   Read Story »

At Seattle's biggest music festival, rain is not unexpected; still, the downpours at Bumbershoot '09 were scary even for this neck of the Pacific Northwest. No bands got electrocuted, but the sound…   Read Story »

Jesse Lortz and Kimberly Morrison return this fall with Sunset / Sunrise, a sophomore collection of baroque "campfire punk" (their term) for Hardly Art. "Hands" is the LP's slow-burning lead track…   Read Story »

This past weekend, Seattle roped off a couple of blocks on Pike Street to host the Capitol Hill Block Party, inviting everyone from Sonic Youth to Micachu to the Jesus Lizard to help fill out a…   Read Story »

The "Rhapsody Rocks NYC" party at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg offered not only a strange, intriguing mix of performers, but also an oddball order of performances: The much discussed Jay Reatard…   Read Story »