Camille Nibungco – Mindie (Major Indie) rock forefathers and pioneers, the Strokes, treated early Y2K indieheads with an early Monday night performance at the WaMu Theatre at the start of March, just before live music went on indefinite hiatus.
Nicholas Anderson – There’s a moment about thirty seconds into the first track, “No Celestial Hope,” on Dryland’s new EP Dances With Waves, where vocalist Bradley Lockhart howls the song’s title. If it’s not a concise thesis statement for the work that follows, as well as a succinctly accurate representation of our current predicament, I don’t know what is.
Graham Isaac – It was arguably the last weekend one could go out with minimal guilt. It was the last weekend that felt even close to what passed for normal in a year that’d already seen threats of a Third World War and an entire continent on fire. Folks were washing their hands more frequently but businesses were still open and people were still going out and doing things.
Camille Nibungco – To the untrained ear, Afrobeats may seem like a raucously complex and frenetic compilation of uptempo tracks and glossy synths. But underneath it all lies the same themes that pervade similar hip-swaying genres like reggaeton and R&B– the emotional highs and lows of romantic love.
Best Coast and Mannequin Pussy Live @ The Showbox March 4, 2020 in Seattle Review by Marika Malaea; Photos by Jake Hanson On the day King County Health Department issued…
