On Blissed, Paisley Devil seems intent on making listeners dance at the edge of the dark emotional abyss he is staring into. Just as the Junior Boys-esque opene...
Once again, 2015 made a strong case for Spokane as a great city for enjoying music in the Pacific Northwest. The local scene in Spokane seemed stronger than eve...
Bartfest 2014 was undoubtedly a high watermark for Spokane’s music scene. Seeing national touring acts like Hundred Waters, No Age, and Bear in Heaven on a line...
The greatest power that music possesses is its ability to envelop and disorient listeners in the best possible way. Even while they may be analyzing every vocal...
I still consider myself a relative newcomer to the Spokane music and arts community. Having relocated to the area from Southern California just over a year and ...
There is a well worn path through the history of folk music that is littered with the remnants of emotional baggage scattered by its many travellers. The contra...
Bands born out of LA’s underground punk club, The Smell, tend to teeter right on the line between popular appeal, and noisy experimentation. The scene that ...
Face paint, pulsing basslines, squelching synths, flashing lights, and a giant orange ‘X’. This honestly sounds like the setup for a giant rave, and in a way, t...
There is a marked difference between chemistry and alchemy. Strictly speaking, chemistry is about the makeup, balance and interaction of different elements. Alc...
If there is one certainty in the progression of popular music, it is that everything eventually looks backward for inspiration. All genres seem to loop back aro...
Every discerning music listener has a dirty secret or two. Not those albums that people claim to like for the sake of irony…we’re talking pure guilty pleasure, ...
Every discerning music listener has a dirty secret or two. Not those albums that people claim to like for the sake of irony...we’re talking pure guilty pleasure...
The current landscape of popular music is experiencing something of a folk music revival. Bands like Mumford and Sons and The Lumineers are dominating top 40 st...
I debated on the title of this post, considering I made a lot of valuable $20 purchases this year after moving to Spokane. If the title were, ‘The Best $20 I Sp...
There’s always some comfort in aural familiarity. Settling in with an album that you know isn’t going to throw curveballs or bizarre sonic detours. Music th...
If someone were to have accidentally wandered into the non-descript artist loft where the first Collect Secret Show was taking place, they’d have been forgiven ...
Scott recently migrated back to the northwest from Los Angeles where he spent a decade performing, writing film scores, releasing albums and building connections in the music industry. He's the production manager at The Bartlett, a Star Wars prequel apologist and master of random pop culture trivia.
