Adrienne Pollock – The Ruins from Planes on Paper is the perfect answer to their first EP. The first EP, The East End Session, is a concept work, a string of songs that take you on a wondrous and emotional journey, impeccably recorded in a live session in Yakima.
Adrienne Pollock – Seattle festival crowds put the city’s show-going regulars to shame. You know those people who usually go to shows, who stand there, maybe bob their heads, and hardly move? That’s definitely not who showed to the final day of Bumbershoot 2014.
Before I saw PHOX last Sunday at the Crocodile in Seattle, I’d never heard the name. And now? Now I want to hear PHOX all the time: popping up in every romantic or heartfelt movie soundtrack, setting the ambiance of every café I frequent, playing softly somewhere nearby each time some new guy sweeps me off my feet.
From the minute Jessica Lea Mayfield stepped on stage at The Crocodile last Monday night – the Seattle stop on tour promoting her 2014 alternative-grunge album Make My Head Sing – it was clear she’s being doing this her whole life.
Eagulls, a post-punk band from Leeds, England, reminded me the other day that sometimes “making it big” is all about passion, dedication, and hard work—or, as their lead singer and main songwriter George Mitchell put it, “having a record.”
