In this day and age, bands seemingly get ripped off by corporations all the time. (See: The Unicorns as latest band to get the Sigur Ros commercial treatment). Why shouldn’t they profit from big $$$ interest directly? One Seattle band asked that very same question and acted on it in one the most extreme ways we've yet to hear about. more ›

Lookit, today is a downright glorious day--way too glorious for the beginning of a workweek. We could encourage you to attend all kinds of events, including scads of SIFF films and at least two shows (the dirty electro of Peaches at the Showbox or ex-members of the Unicorns and Arcade Fire making up Clues at Neumo's). But we won't. more ›

Monday night at the Croc, Islands were sick---quite literally, as all the members of the band seemed to have caught a wittle cold. It makes sense that they'd be under the weather; those scrawny Québécois boys could stand to eat a sandwich or two. Even though they were relatively low-energy, they still put on a great show, and, probably due to the illness, they didn’t cop an attitude like they did the last time around. They did, however, wear all white again, though singer Nick Diamonds started off the set with a sky blue blazer that we would totally wear, except that it would probably make us look too girly. Nick was also wearing some capital-t tight white jeans, through which we could see both the outlines of his pockets and the fact that he dresses left. more ›