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Q&A With Constantines’ Bryan Webb

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Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM. Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records t ... More >>

The Fluid to play two East Coast dates with Overcasters

Photo: Jon Solomon What was it Michael Corleone said in The Godfather? "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in"? That quote could certainly apply to the Fluid. The act, which had initially just intended to get back together for a few shows leading up to Sub Pop's 20th Anniversary cele ... More >>

Blitzen Trapper Keeps It Short

Brevity is a strong suit for the frontman of this Portland band.

The Westword.com blog shortcut, April 7 edition

Wipe that Homer Simpson drool off your face... Eat healthy, live healthy. Today in Cafe Society: • Beer AND donuts at Watson's? Oh, why do you toy with my emotions! • Sip and slip into spring at Tamayo. • Coffee Spot: Aviano Coffee. • V.G. Burgers currently homeless as well as meatless. †... More >>

The Fleet Foxes hit a soft spot with their pastoral brand of baroque pop

Wipe that Homer Simpson drool off your face... Eat healthy, live healthy. Today in Cafe Society: • Beer AND donuts at Watson's? Oh, why do you toy with my emotions! • Sip and slip into spring at Tamayo. • Coffee Spot: Aviano Coffee. • V.G. Burgers currently homeless as well as meatless. †... More >>

Here's Mud in Your Ear

Seattle's Mudhoney sometimes wonders what all the fuzz was about.

CSS

Donkey
Sub Pop

Westword's Freeloader tips you off to the best in legitimate, artist-approved downloads.

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Sub Pop

The Fluid

Sub Pop's twentieth anniversary spurs this year's unlikeliest local band reunion.

On the Download

The best in legitimate, artist-approved exclusives.

Oxford Collapse

Saturday, February 3, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Singles Going Steady

The best end-to-end albums from a single-driven year.

Wolf Eyes

Human Animal (Sub Pop)

Dead Moon

Echoes of the Past (Sub Pop)

Low

Saturday, February 25, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

For the record

Since 2005 has hit the bricks, here's the final word on last year's finest discs.

Let There Be Rock

Ten albums that make it easy to avoid fretting about your old-fashioned Rockist ways.

Rogue Wave

Descended Like Vultures (Sub Pop)

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

Rogue Wave

Out of the Shadow (Sub Pop)

Go Getters

Just because the Go hails from Detroit doesn't mean it's stuck in the garage.

Flame On

The Thermals light a fire under indie rock's ass.

Mudhoney

Since We've Become Translucent (Sub Pop)

A World Apart

Heralded as new heroes of indie rock, the Shins shrug their way out of obscurity.

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Heralded as new heroes of indie rock, the Shins shrug their way out of obscurity.

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Heralded as new heroes of indie rock, the Shins shrug their way out of obscurity.

CRITIC'S CHOICE

Heralded as new heroes of indie rock, the Shins shrug their way out of obscurity.

AND THE SEAWEED WILL TELL

Heralded as new heroes of indie rock, the Shins shrug their way out of obscurity.

CRITIC'S CHOICE

Heralded as new heroes of indie rock, the Shins shrug their way out of obscurity.

TERMINAL VELOCITY

Heralded as new heroes of indie rock, the Shins shrug their way out of obscurity.

SUCK ON THIS

Heralded as new heroes of indie rock, the Shins shrug their way out of obscurity.

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Heralded as new heroes of indie rock, the Shins shrug their way out of obscurity.

Falling Rock Taphouse makes it a dozen

Falling Rock Taphouse, Westword's Best Beer List winner three years in a row, celebrates its twelfth anniversary tonight with a party starting at 6 p.m. Enjoy free barbeque while it lasts, and try a couple pints of beer from Elysian Brewing, a Seattle-area brewery that is entering the Colorado mark ... More >>

Monolith Q&A: The Thermals

Photo by Alicia J. Rose​The Thermals new album, Now We Can See, represents more than simply a fresh recording for the Portland-based trio. After an amicable departure from the iconic Seattle label Sub-Pop, the group released their new disc on Kill Rock Stars. According to frontman Hutch Harris ... More >>

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of October 19, 2009

​As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of ... More >>

Beach House

Friday, September 3, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 303-830-8497.

Avi Buffalo

Monday, October 25, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Dean Spunt of No Age on the importance of DIY

Todd Cole​No Age (due tonight at The Bluebird Theater) isn't a band that has hit the mainstream yet, but it has enjoyed an unexpected rise to prominence as a noisy pop band, making art grounded in notion of doing things your own way -- regardless of whether or not it's met with the stamp of ap ... More >>

Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold respects the album format on Helplessness Blues

Todd Cole​No Age (due tonight at The Bluebird Theater) isn't a band that has hit the mainstream yet, but it has enjoyed an unexpected rise to prominence as a noisy pop band, making art grounded in notion of doing things your own way -- regardless of whether or not it's met with the stamp of ap ... More >>

After 25 years, the Dwarves are still standing tall

Todd Cole​No Age (due tonight at The Bluebird Theater) isn't a band that has hit the mainstream yet, but it has enjoyed an unexpected rise to prominence as a noisy pop band, making art grounded in notion of doing things your own way -- regardless of whether or not it's met with the stamp of ap ... More >>