When people describe Olympia, Washington, they usually talk about it as a deep-wooded, weeded-out hippie enclave, but I'm not sure they get across how much of a deep-wooded, weeded-out hippie enclave…   Read Story »

Cruise Your Illusion, the new album from stoned punkers Milk Music, marks the moment where the band leaps completely out of the wilds of the Pacific Northwest DIY scene into the larger world, the one…   Read Story »

Remember last month when we made a hand-wringing post about the death of the MP3 and thereby the end of the downloadable Monthly Mix? Well, fuck it -- ZIP FILE BACK. Thank you for your comments and…   Read Story »

The fuzzed-out Pacific Northwestern punks Milk Music will release their new album Cruise Your Illusion next month, and for those of us who still love damaged and battered guitar flare-ups, that is a…   Read Story »

By the end of last year, compiling Monthly Mixes became a sad task. Each month I'd scan in sadness, watching our strongest songs presented as straight-to-Soundcloud affairs, our music business…   Read Story »

Milk Music, products of the deep-rooted Olympia, Washington DIY underground scene, are jumping out of the incubator on their new album, signing with Fat Possum. (They will, however, self-release the…   Read Story »

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to select the rising bands which have connected them, someone wrote a long time ago. Or, something close to that. Here's what…   Read Story »

Sunday’s lineup at Pitchfork opened with the promise of two “secret” guest spots – one that happened, one that didn’t – and an extremely anticipated sets from festival closers Vampire…   Read Story »

Olympia, WA outfit Milk Music is a thrashing rock band in the tradition of someone like Hüsker Dü and a group whose live fury is well-documented (listen to this awesome WFMU session from last…   Read Story »