This week on New Tracks on the Trail: • Iron & Wine have a habit of dropping companion EPs close on the heels of their full-length releases. In August they did it again with Weed Garden, a collection of six tracks that weren’t finished in time to make last year’s Grammy Award-nominated Beast Epic. Iron […]
New Tracks – 9/26
Leave it up to Spotify to validate our rock idols. On a Thursday late in August, the music streaming app logged David Bowie’s billionth stream – more than likely the culprit was the 1999 remastered version of his 1977 hit, “Heroes,” which has itself logged nearly six million Spotify streams in the app’s nine-year history. […]
New Tracks – 6/13
They won’t all admit it, but most of this town’s ’90s-era rock stars had serious guitar envy for Seattle. This isn’t meant to be shaming: In the wake of the Pac Northwest’s grungy explosion into the mainstream, who could blame a local scenester for wanting to try his luck at something bigger than Missoula? Rockin’ Rudy’s part-owner and Shangri-La […]
