Cameron Deuel – My “Best of 2016” Google Doc has three tabs: 1. To Listen, 2. Best of, and 3. Rations (my monthly music newsletter). In the past six months, dozens of new albums, mixtapes, EPs, and singles have been fed through columns, some graduating from one tab to another, in an effort to concentrate the finest works of the year into one list.
Gary Horn – Pleasures kicked off the July 7 show at the Chop Suey with a series of happy and wandering (yet pleasingly tight) songs. Relying on clean, harmonized guitar riffs, the band delivered groovy, unpretentious tunes you’d imagine echoing across college campuses throughout America.
Gary Horn – Dirty Dirty’s “Isochronism” video does not have a storyline, expensive backdrops or professional actors. Instead, it relies on Ian Forrester’s (vox/guitar) and Mark Knowles’ (drums) driving intensity, capturing their electro-industrial rock energy in a raw and unfiltered fashion.
Patrick Galactic – This Saturday, July 16, at the swanky Fred Wildlife Refuge in Capitol Hill, a gathering of Seattle’s many indie record labels will take place. The name for such a momentous occasion? Channel Fest.
Gary Horn – When you see a show billed at the Tractor with the Country Lips headlining, you half expect The Gourds and Steven Tyler to be involved. That was not the case on May 14, no sir.
