Tag Archives: Seattle

Review: Damien Jurado’s Masterful ‘Maraqopa’

Posted on May 3, 2012 by | Leave a comment

One of our favorite albums of 2012 thus far. Read about it at The A.V. Club.

 

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Review: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, ‘Where the Messengers Meet,’ on Dead Oceans

Posted on August 3, 2010 by | Leave a comment
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Where the Messengers Meet (Dead Oceans)

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, 'Where the Messengers Meet'

There’s something worrisome about a family band that makes dark music, but it works for young Seattle quintet Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band.

Grade: B (via The A.V. Club)

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Roundup: 4AD Signs Ariel Pink, Kenny G + Beck?!, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Release Holiday Tune (videos, MP3)

Posted on December 4, 2009 by | Leave a comment

Quick bloggy bits* from around the L.A. underground (and up).

  1. Ariel Pink Signs To 4AD, Readies Euro Tour
  2. Watch ‘Saxx Laws,’ Bizarro Kenny G Take on Beck Classic
  3. MP3 Exclusive: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band’s New Holiday Song

    4. (all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)

*If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.

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Q&A: Tiny Vipers on myths and minimalism

Posted on June 25, 2009 by | Leave a comment

Seattle-based Sub Pop soloist Tiny Vipers, a.k.a. Jesy Fortino, specializes in a particularly dooming brand of barebones folk. Her new record, Life On Earth, is the kind of thing that rattles around your head for weeks on end — welcomely, I might add. Visit A.V. Club Denver to learn just how Fortino creates her haunting compositions, and what she thinks about huge magical castles.

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