Douglas Martin
A senior writer and former managing editor of Passion of the Weiss -- the unofficial poet laureate of Tacoma, WA -- Douglas Martin's journey as a writer began with this website's first regular rock column, Douglas Martin's Dirty Shoes. In the decade since, he's written about music and pro wrestling for a bunch of places under his real name (including Pitchfork, Seattle Weekly, and currently for KEXP.org and Fanbyte) and continues to write about music and professional wrestling here, because you can't talk your shit anywhere if not at home.
 
The noise-pop melodies of Boston's Bummed make for an essential addition to the Dirty Shoes fall rotation.
If you mix listening to more jazz with a little Just Blaze, some trumpets, and a few psychedelics here and there.
Members of Chastity Belt, Tacocat and Pony Time team up to make one of the year's funniest and most subversive albums.
An Early Years Anthology to the Fresh & Only's, the best SF band still standing.
A look at the new psych-rock group on Stones Throw's Circle Star imprint.
Grouper's Liz Harris and friends Joe Bindeman and Scott Simmons, combine to make one of the most immersive noise-pop records in recent memory.
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The Melbourne-based quartet channels Sonic Youth on their new EP through Sub Pop,
Douglas Martin Music has been up on Wimps since 2013, now the Seattle band signed to Kill Rock Stars release "Super Me."
The Best Band in Seattle enlist Ty Segall on production and go full Beast Mode.