This Month In Releases: February 2014

Welcome to our favorite local releases post for the month of February!! In this post we loving offer up the 11 EPs/LPs and 1 compilation that constituted our favorite local listens to emerge in the last month. As always, the rules are as follows: all records were released during the month of February by either a local artist or a local record company. They appear in no particular order and singles and 7" were not included (unless they were EP length). If I didn't include your release I either didn't like it, didn't hear it, or one or both of us has the wrong release date. Click the link in the album title for more from each artist. Enjoy!

LPs/EPs:
Pill Wonder, ‘Shy Dogs’ (self-released) -- electronic, weirdo/warped pop

Diogenes, ‘Swap Meet’ (self-released) -- future beats, hip-hop, jazz fusion

Topdown Dialectic, ‘FUR 084’ (Further) -- tech-house, experimental, ambient

Roladex, 'Anthems For The Micro-Age' (Medical) -- minimalist synth, synth-pop, new wave

Stalebirth, ‘OddEyePuss’ (self-released) -- experimental, free jazz, noise, improv

Lori Goldston, 'Creekside: Solo Cello' (Mississippi) -- solo cello, improv, experimental classical folk 


2Suit, 'WMDxRDC = 2Suit',  (CTPAK Records) -- ambient hip hop, introspective, techno 


Cave Babies, ‘Accomplish Nothing’ (Lost Sound) -- diy pop, bedroom lo-fi, singer-songwriter 


Pillar Point, ‘Pillar Point’ (Polyvinyl) -- dance, indie rock, synth-pop 


Helms Alee, ‘Sleepwalking Sailors’ (Sargent) -- grunge metal, stoner rock

Compilations:

Various, ‘Isaac Loves You, Especially You’ by BLDGs -- alt rock, pop-punk, indie-pop, etc 

Festivals of October

Summer's over, but there are still a few great festivals left! Check these two out in October.

The new Macefield Music Festival is more of a mega-show than a festival, as it is only one day long. However, it'll be quite a packed day! Plus, wristbands are $10 advance, $15 day of festival. Not bad! If you're 21+ (sorry, minors), head down to Ballard on October 5th at 4pm and catch the following acts (NGD suggestions are bolded):

Kick it off with these free performances at Sonic Boom:

1pm- Lori Goldston

1:45pm- Marc Olsen

2:30pm- Davidson Hart Kingsbery

3:15pm- The Blakes 

	Tractor Tavern	Sunset Tavern	Conor Byrne
4 pm	Hounds of the Wild Hunt	Children Of Kids	TBA
5 pm	Special Explosion	USF	TBA
6 pm	The Fame Riot	Kid Smpl	Lori Goldston
7 pm	Young Fresh Fellows	Vox Mod	Afrocop
8 pm	Princess	Keyboard Kid	Learning Team
9 pm	Constant Lovers	Key Nyata	LURES
10 pm	The Blakes	Jarv Dee	Courtney Marie Andrews
11 pm	The Intelligence	ILLFIGHTYOU	Ganges River Band
12 am	Polyrhythmics	Funky 2 Death	Davidson Hart Kingsbery

Named for Edith Macefield, the persistent little old lady who refused to sell her house to the developer of the Ballard Blocks (Trader Joe's, LA Fitness, etc.), this first annual Macefield Music Festival is a strong start. Let's hope they keep this up, considering we have already lost Seattle Weekly's Reverb Fest (note, the would-be Reverb Fest lineup is now what you see here with Macefield Music Festival, which is no coincidence), and we lost City Arts Fest this year, too (this is what they're up to instead).

Hypnotikon is (also) a new two-day festival celebrating psychedelic rock, held October 11-12 at the Triple Door and its associated Musicquarium. This venue is gorgeous and I'm so excited this festival is here. The festival ends on a high note with Silver Apples, "analog-synth pioneers...whose two late-'60s albums still radiate timeless melodic and rhythmic brilliance." Good times. With visuals by Christian Petersen (I Want You) and Aubrey Nehring (Portable Shrines). $25 per night, or $40 pass for both nights; or just come for the Musicquarium shows, because those are free!

	Main Theater	Musicquarium	DJ’s on Both Nights
Friday	Cave	Tokyoidaho Ecstatic Cosmic Union	Explorateur Veins Skyler Mamma Casserole Self-Administered Beatdown
	Lumerians
	Midday Veil
	Fungal Abyss
Saturday	Silver Apples	Brain Fruit Karnak Temples
	Cloudland Canyon
	Night Beats
	Jetman Jet Team