Music
 
Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand play the Bing on the 12th and the Kroc Center on the 13th

Sound Advice

All your musical happenings from the Appleseed Cast to Ted Leo Leah Sottile

[Photo: Lance Putt]

Out on a Limb

After nine years, local extreme metal outfit Doom Lit Sky is calling it quits Leah Sottile

Solitary Man

He’s done the rock thing, but now A.A. Bondy is trying to make music that makes him happy Alan Sculley

Beth Tacular and Phil Moore are the Bowerbirds.

Big Birds

Embracing the earth without being a jerk about it  Jeff Echert

"Contra," Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend takes a cue from the Clash on their sophomore record Jeff Echert

"Scrambles," Bomb the Music Industry!

Scrambles blazes through 13 tracks and uses nearly as many musicians — on everything from drum machines to Game Boys. Chris Dreyer

Rites of Punk

Ceremony is making new punk rock with an old-school mindset Dustin Carroll

[Photo: Markus Burns]

Breaking the Monotony

Liberty Lake’s Le Train Train Quotidien is just trying to make life a little more interesting Leah Sottile

[Photo: Young Kwak]

The Good Word

Whiskey Dick Mountain preaches — just not about the usual church stuff Jordy Byrd

Sammy Eubanks [Photo: Young Kwak]

Shake, Rattle, Roll

Ain’t nothing gonna get Sammy Eubanks down Jordy Byrd

The Makers

The Decade in Music

There’s a lot of things Spokane’s music scene doesn’t have, but let’s talk about all the things it has become in the last decade Leah Sottile

Oil of Angels during the last show at Empyrean's old location [Photo: Tammy Marshall]

What's in a Place?

The indelible mark left by Empyrean's old location on Madison Street Joel Smith

Patrick Kendrick at Caterina Winery [Photo: Tammy Marshall]

Musical Chairs

Empyrean’s relocating, Caterina’s remodeling, Sunset Junction’s rebirthing — our music landscape is changing Leah Sottile

Alex Davis [Photo: Young Kwak]

Backtrack

Leave it to a kid from the CD generation to make tapes cool again Leah Sottile

Fighting Fire

The Fire Department doesn’t want us to catch on fire. Local venues feel like they don’t want us to have a scene either Nicholas Deshais