A PEAK AT SEATTLE MUSIC
1. DIMINISHED MEN
"Year in and year out, Diminished Men prove that they’re one of Seattle’s most creative and virtuosic bands." The Stranger
MORE DIMINISHED MEN SONGS:
2. MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE
"One of Seattle's most cherished exports" - The Stranger
"I originally moved to Seattle to study sound design for film, then ended up getting sidetracked with music. But the thing that got me interested in the first place, when I was younger, was the sound in David Lynch's films. And I still kind of approach things in that way, based on that influence, and more generally on my studies." - Randall Dunn, Producer and MMOB Co-Founder in Bomb Magazine
3. LA LUZ
"Relying on extra-smooth, wicked surf-rock, their debut is offering an extraordinary piece of post-grunge" - The 405
"La Luz has the goods, with a deceptive complexity to everything... And unlike in most rock music around here, there’s hardly any distortion. Maybe it’s all been cleaned off by the waves?" - The Seattle Times
MORE LA LUZ VIDEOS:
4. KARL BLAU
"A prolific, curious, and overlooked songwriter, producer, and instrumentalist" - Pitchfork
"A true journeyman of the Northwest's DIY music scene" - Spin.com
"Karl Blau doesn’t write music that rests on the surface, it cuts deep and asks you to go diving. ...What I am saying is that Karl Blau is an honest to god musical genius" - Secretly Important
Karl Blau - That's How I Got To Memphis cover
5. THE CURIOUS MYSTERY
"a four-piece doing unhurried psych-blues, auto harp ghost songs, and Area 51 garage-Americana, with plenty of that old frontier promise." - Pitchfork
CURIOUS MYSTERY VIDEO:
The Curious Mystery - Black Sand
6. MOUNT EERIE (PHIL ELVERUM)
"Recontextualizing songs is familiar territory for Elverum, whose immense catalog essentially functions as a big flow-chart, with overlapping narratives of nature and mysticism" - Pitchfork
"inspiration for 'Wind's Poem' comes from two strange, seemingly disparate places: David Lynch's television series 'Twin Peaks' and black metal. Both feature otherworldly ambiance and an estrangement from life that's sometimes reaffirming." - NPR
MORE VIDEOS:
Mount Eerie - Wind Speaks
Mount Eerie - Between Two Mysteries
Mount Eerie - O My Heart
7. COCK AND SWAN
"Those teenaged savants who make musical magic on the 4-track in the bedroom? Cock and Swan is what happens when they grow up. ...They retain some of the experimental spirit and overdriven, tape-saturated grittiness of earlier days. ...this is the chief tension of Cock and Swan - polished dreaminess with an undercurrent of raw and weird" - City Arts
MORE COCK AND SWAN SONGS:
Cock and Swan - Morning's Window
8. EARTH
Metal Insider's interview w/ Erik Martin about Earth's DLF LIVE performance
9. ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO'S
MALAIKAT DAN SINGA
"If there’s a single archetype embodied by Arrington de Dionyso and his imprint of caustic bacchanalia, it’s the rock musician as modern-day shaman." - Tiny Mix Tapes
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