Tonight in Seattle:  

Joy Wants Eternity

Cumulus Festival will rock your brains out

Three days of electric fuzz and long-haired men - count me in!

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A record release unleashed from Beast, Please Be Still with Joy Wants Eternity

at Chop Suey

Watching Beast, Please Be Still expand over the past year, from a questionable warehouse party to this CD release show last Tuesday night, I feel I've found my new favorite local band.

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Latest comment by: Brooke: "Hmm, I think I may have been at that "questionable warehouse party"...it's the only time I've seen Beast, Please Be Still and I loved them! Record review, anyone?"

JITM at Night lineup announced on the JITM show

Happily, this morning John Richards (aka John in the Morning) announced the lineup for his next John in the Morning at Night show, and played a song from each artist.

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Latest comment by: Cal Ledbetter: "Commutes connect you with KEXP as you silently weep while on the 520. Worse yet, we recently moved offices and I have to 5 to the 520 to the 405. AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! JITM keeps me sane."

Joy Wants Eternity — You Who Pretend to Sleep

Joy Wants Eternity -- You Who Pretend to Sleep
Joy Wants Eternity has done something similar in quality to their influences (like Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky), but unique in its focus and clarity, and more immediate and accessible (at least to vocal-needing cretins like myself) for it.

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Latest comment by: Anonymous: "agreed with "beep repaied" This album is a piece of art, if you cant aprreciate true art I would not reccomend it, if you can, please listen to it in its (entirity), it could change your life, like it did mine! :D -love is all, all is love- www"

From the imaginary mailbins

Read about all the exciting new Northwest music we got in our mailbins this week, including Clorox Girls, Brush, Joy Wants Eternity, Your Favorite Book, and more!

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Latest comment by: Imaginary-Anonymous: "Hello imaginaries, Thank you very much for mentioning the snowdrift release. I wanted to clear up that as I do sing and collaborate in the band, you had listed the CD as being mine. Our band and the CD are both actually named Snowdrift. You can listen ...

AstroPOP! for June 2005

See what's in the stars -- and the record stores -- for you for June 2005, including reviews of Black Horse, Girth, Minmae, Queens of the Stone Age, and My Orchard.

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