http://www.inlander.com/spokane/articles.sec-58-1-music-feature.html It looked like something out of Mad Max if Mad Max was about partying — two school buses parked parallel to each other, linked by a makeshift lighting rig. During the day, it was merely a festival cur]]> It’s close to midnight on Mother’s Day, and sons and daughters are descending into a cold, dark wine cellar in Moscow, Idaho. As they squeeze inside, packed tighter than the tobacco in the]]> On a chilly March evening, a storm is brewing inside. At Mootsy’s, a downtown Spokane watering hole, a crowd of people are craning their necks to see what all the ruckus is all about. Ther]]> They spill out onto the sidewalk in clumps of twos and threes, clutching ears, yelling to be heard. Shell-shocked, the crowd nevertheless seems to agree that whatever it was they just witnessed was so]]> After being told they’d been named an Inlander Band to Watch, the guys of Lilac Linguistics didn’t know what exactly to think. They’re not even a band, really. The five DJs and rappe]]> Every band has an origin story. Some of them are boring, run-of-the-mill anecdotes about answering a newspaper ad or growing up on the same street. But 66beat, a two-piece guitar-and-drums outfit that]]> “What’s a cowboy?” Corb Lund asks. “The word cowboy gets thrown around so carelessly these days, it’s offensive and an affront to the culture sometimes. So I’m awfu]]> In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been in the middle of a “roots” revival lately. These days, kids are more apt to strap on a banjo and a bow tie than any time since the Great]]> Aaron Birdsall wants to install a zip line at his next show at the Knitting Factory. He wants trapeze artists, maybe fire breathers. Right now at shows, the lead singer and bass player climbs up on hi]]> It’s safe to say that the only people shocked by MGMT’s nearly instantaneous rise to fame were the members of MGMT themselves. The eclectic, psychedelic pop group skyrocketed to prom]]> I wonder if Tipper Gore has heard Tyler, the Creator. Once upon a time, the Second Lady of the United States was the great arbiter of explicit lyrics in music, attempting to slap earmuffs over ]]> There is an unnamed force out there that seems as though it desperately wants Slingshot Dakota to stop making music. According to keyboardist and vocalist Carly Comando, that force moved the ban]]> It’s no news that Spokane’s local music scene is in transition. Venues are at a standstill. Audiences shrink as money gets tighter. Lineups change, bands fade away. But one thing&rs]]> Having been together for more than 25 years and released some 20 albums, there is no shortage of Cowboy Junkies music to explore. But there’s no better primer for the band’s music than The]]> After six minutes of guitars moving at breakneck speed, drums clattering to keep up and a bassline building a brick wall of low notes behind it all, Eight Bells suddenly shines a light into its own d]]> “In a perfect world,” says Ashton Bird, “no one would be on their cellphones when we played our set.” Bird — the drumming half of Tweak Bird, Los Angeles’ jarringly]]> Roy Wooten has succumbed to fate. The musician commonly known as Futureman says fate is what dressed him in waistcoats, ruffled shirts and black tricornered hats like George Washington and Paul ]]> Taking a break was not on singer Aaron Bruno’s mind when his band, Under the Influence of Giants, went on indefinite hiatus in 2008. Holing up in the spare bedroom in his mother’s house an]]> It’s a Saturday night, and Boots Bakery is filled with the kind of people Macklemore rapped about in “Thrift Shop.” A group of high schoolers sits on the floor to get a better view o]]> The scratchy, aged tone of blues crooner Eric Tollefson is not one that comes without determination — or experience. Where many other blues performers fall flat after a strong start, Tollefson ha]]>