Jonathan Shipley
Articles by Jonathan Shipley
Book Review: Swamplandia!
Karen Russell's first novel makes implausible happenings richly human.
Amos Lee
Mission Bell (Blue Note)
St. Lola in the Fields
High Atop the Houses and the Towns (Nettwerk)
Cours Lapin
Cours Lapin (Fake Diamond)
The Charlatans
Who We Touch (Cooking Vinyl/The End)
Various Artists
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World OST
School of Seven Bells
Disconnect from Desire (Ghostly International/Vagrant)
Hey Marseilles
To Travels & Trunks (Onto Entertainment)
Nada Surf
if i had a hi-fi (Mardev)
Ratatat
LP4 (XL)
Frightened Rabbit was not afraid to bring heady tunes to Seattle’s hipsters
May 16, 2010, at Neumo’s
The Album Leaf
A Chorus of Storytellers (Sub Pop)
The Most Serene Republic defies their name at a rocking set in Seattle
September 24, 2009, at the Crocodile Café
The Horse’s Ha
Of the Cathmawr Yards (Hidden Agenda)
At the End of the Day with Dolores O’Riordan
Issue #41
The iconic ‘90s singer takes No Baggage on the road
Hanne Hukkelberg
Blood From a Stone (Nettwerk)
St. Vincent
Actor (4AD)
Sterling Andrews’ sterling new thing
Gooseberries is a sweet treat for music fans and fine art aficionados
Bat for Lashes
Issue #39
Two Suns
Birds, bands, and badass t-shirts
Google and googly eyes aside, Sarah Utter embraces her inner “art weirdo”
Andrew Bird
Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
The Rosebuds don’t get detained from rocking Seattle
November 20, 2008, at Tractor Tavern
The Mountain Goats and Kaki King light up Seattle
October 20, 2008, at the Showbox
A book is worth a thousand words
Jennifer Khoshbin uses books as sculpture to tell stories without words
Okkervil River flows like hard rain on a summer’s day in Seattle
September 17, 2008, at the Showbox
Damien Jurado
Caught In the Trees (Secretly Canadian)
Childlike wonder
Catia Chien captures melancholy and mystery in her paintings
Rachel Sage
Issue #36
Chandelier (MPress)
The Baseball Project
Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quail (Yep Roc)
Hobo meets highbrow
Diem Chau elevates simple household items into objects of beauty
Mia Doi Todd
Issue #35
Gea(City Zen Music)
Mike Doughty
Golden Delicious (ATO)
Capstan Shafts
Environ Maiden (Rainbow Quartz)
Devendra Banhart
Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Mountain (XL)
Devendra Banhart
Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Mountain (XL)
Robbers on High Street
Grand Animals (New Line)
Southerly
Storyteller and the Gossip Columnist (Greyday)
Rio en Medio
The Bride of Dynamie (Gnomonsong)
Fionn Regan
The End of History (Lost Highway)
Maps
We Can Create (Mute)
BEN + VESPER
Issue #32
All This Will Kill You
JENN GRANT
Issue #32
Orchestra for the Moon
Angelique Kidjo
Djin Djin (Razor & Tie)
Golden Smog
Blood on the Slacks (Lost Highway)
Memphis
A Little Place in the Wilderness (Good Fences)
Laura Veirs
Saltbreakers (Nonesuch)
Illinois
What the Hell Do I Know? (Ace Fu)
Gruff Rhys
Candylion (Rough Trade)
Lonely Dear
Loney, Noir (Sub Pop)
Six Part Seven
Casually Smashed to Pieces (Suicide Squeeze)
Rickie Lee Jones
The Sermon of Exposition Boulevard (New West)
Alasdair Roberts
The Amber Gatherers (Drag City)
Tin Hat
The Sad Machinery of Spring(Hannibal/Rykodisc)
The Autumn Defense
The Autumn Defense (Broadmoor)
Images by Jonathan Shipley
The Mountain Goats and Kaki King light up Seattle
The Mountain Goats
