by Timmy Held I’m convinced that Seattleites Luke Beetham and Stacy Peck, AKA Pony Time, are not from the present. Okay, so yeah, not really,...
by Timmy Held In September of this year, Seattle psych-pop-shoe gazers, The Purrs signed with Fin Records, a growing NW label that’s home to The Walkabouts...
by Jonathan Sindelman In anticipation of 2012’s Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle, I am introducing a series of reviews based on ECM Records, whose extraordinary...
By Alina Shanin Local indie rock band By Sunlight recently accomplished a major goal. They recorded exactly the sound they imagined since their beginning, seven years...
Kristen Ward has been doing her thing around the great Northwest for a few years now, both on her own and sharing the stage with...
By Timmy Held Enjoying Extras/B-side/Rarities albums as much, or even more, than a band’s studio efforts is a phenomenon that I have yet to understand....
By Timmy Held Daydream Vacation is somewhat of a Seattle supergroup. Consisting of singer, guitarist, keyboardist, and producer Dave Einmo (Head Like a Kite), vocalist...
SMI featured contributor Timmy Held from Tyrannosaurus Grace is not only a talented writer and musician, he’s something of a local record mogul. Well… mogul may be the...