RISING GLOBES: Spokane natives The Globes may be young but they’ve been playing together for nearly eight years, and their experience shows. Playing a sort of indie rock not easily identifiable (but we’ll try), The Globes are have their roots in the basic sounds of Northwest mainstays Death Cab for Cutie and Built to Spill but easily expand into territory occupied by more mercurial alternative groups like The Eels. It’s rock and roll, that’s for sure, but it’s textured and dynamic, with a magnified glum attitude accented by flares of distortion, moody and refreshingly mature even beyond the group’s years. With Little Pieces and Oh Captain My Captain. more ›

"I think the Decemberists are a great band, and I think there are some similarities: we are both folkish and use more varied instrumentation than most rock bands. I think that if you actually sit and listen to both bands, you'd see that they both are coming from very different places. The era of songs that drive and influence the majority of the Builders' material is early Depression-era blues, folk, and gospel, and weirder stuff like Tom Waits." more ›