EVERYBODY SAY YEA: Did you see Yeasayer at that show they played with psych rockers Black Mountain last year? We did, and that night we became heartfelt believers in the pounding, global jungle magic of the foursome from Brooklyn. It's a smart idea to listen to their recorded material (here or here) to see if you like the direction they're headed, but to be honest, Yeasayer's got ten times more energy going for them at......

The first time we saw the Young Fresh Fellows, at the UW’s HUB Ballroom in 1989, frontman Scott McCaughey had that cryptic “poop” phrase scrawled on the face of his acoustic guitar. Near the end of the joyously ramshackle set, he smashed the instrument onstage and flung its tangled scraps over drummer Tad Hutchinson’s head. This fairly well sums up the Fellows’ brand of goofball garage-pop. Since 1982, McCaughey and co. have combined the raw......

Tonight at El Corazon, ten lousy bucks gets you forty kickass years of Northwest rock 'n' roll. That's, like, two bits per year. Headliners Dead Moon are the rockingest power trio ever to creep out of Clackamas, Oregon. Most know 'em as the elderly farts in the 1996 NW rockumentary Hype!, though their roots run much deeper. Long before singer/guitarist Fred Cole, his bassist wife Toody Cole and drummer Andrew Loomis joined forces in 1987,......

Seattlest is excited to travel down memory lane this Saturday with Girl Trouble at the Comet Tavern. Of all the bars associated with the heyday of the late 80's Seattle scene, the Comet remains most true to its roots with true grit, no credit cards, and cheap beer on tap. The same can be said of Tacoma's Girl Trouble, who in 2004 celebrated twenty years of knocking on the music industry's door. Not much......