The diversity of sounds on Shelley Short’s new record A Cave, A Canoo is striking. While the record maintains a mood that evokes genuine laughter and longing (thanks mostly to Short’s perfectly produced vocals) the variety of instruments, and even vocalists on tracks like ‘Time Machine/Submarine’ and ‘Familiar’ give the typically slow moving tracks [...]

MusicFest North West exists in a realm between two of the biggest city-wide festivals of the year. While Austin’s SXSW kicks the summer off with essentially every artist you could ever want to see playing multiple times, New York’s CMJ offers a similar set of shows across its vast city. MusicFest North West, [...]

[ September 3, 2008; 9:00 pm; ]

As this starts at 9:00pm on Wednesday, it is officially the first thing you should catch at this years MusicFest NW; and what a way to start.

9:00 pm Fuck Buttons

10:30 pm Mogwai

6 months have passed since I wrote about Fuck Buttons’ debut album, Street Horrrsing, and all that has changed is my i-Tunes [...]

[ September 3, 2008; 5:00 pm; ]

Starting today, and throughout the week I’ll be posting to the calendar shows you should probably be going to that correspond to this years MusicFestNW, along with MP3’s so you can preview the artists before the shows. At $50 for 4 days, there is no good reason not to make it out.
After the jump check [...]