Celebrate Halloween With The Warehouse – Sunday, October 30
Sunday’s show at The Space (729 Court C) features Peter Wolf Crier, Birds + Batteries, and Goldfinch
View ArticleTacoma, Nebraska
Local music fan explores the similarities between a homegrown music scene in Omaha and the community-driven artistic rebirth of Tacoma
View ArticleBe of Good Cheer
A few of Tacoma's upcoming holiday events are too exciting to ignore and have my set my jingle bells a-jangling; my tinsel a-twisting? My carols boisterously harmonizing? My snowflakes flurry-ing
View ArticleCathedrals Tacoma – Concert Series, Part 1: Pickwick, The Maldives & Pearly...
This Saturday, March 24, Pickwick, The Maldives and Pearly Gate Music will be playing Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Tacoma. Why should you go see a rock show in a church? Let us explain
View ArticleApartment Lights Switching On
Music lovers in Tacoma and beyond are familiar with Grace Sullivan. As a founding member of the very popular Goldfinch, she co-wrote and performed songs of barren sincerity mined from the dark vein...
View ArticleZoe Keating and the Portland Cello Project
I work at the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts, so I readily admit that I hold some level of enthusiasm for just about all that we do. That said, I am really excited about our upcoming show –...
View ArticleThe Warehouse & Post Defiance Present Apartment Lights, Kevin Seconds, & j. wong
March 16, Post Defiance and The Warehouse are delighted to host a house show that shouldn’t be missed, a fitting expression of our mutual love of Tacoma culture and our desire to share and promote it
View ArticleFalling for Swoon Records and Trevor Dickson
If you’re in Tacoma and looking for a summer soundtrack of rock music made locally, humanely, and free of harmful or intimidatingly exclusive additives, you will be thrilled to hear about Swoon...
View ArticleGray Vibes – Khris P Talks About ILLFIGHTYOU
Post Defiance interviewed Khris P, one of the three MCs in ILLFIGHTYOU, and their producer. By now, ILLFIGHTYOU should require no introduction in this city. They have the distinction of being one of...
View ArticleRockwell Powers Makes No Small Plans on “BUILD”
Rockwell Powers is putting out an ambitious full-length album today (October 12), his first in far too long. Powers collaborated with the keen-eared D.J. Phinisey to make “BUILD,” and brought in a...
View ArticleUGLYFRANK In the Eye of the Beholder
“Don’t fuck me over, Dan Rahe.” Those were the last words UGLYFRANK said to me after our interview, and they have stuck with me. I’ve spent the 5 weeks since that night contemplating how to write the...
View ArticleThe Breaklites Learned the Rules and Know How to Bend Them
The Breaklites “I ♥ America” Album Release Party – Saturday, January 11, 9pm, Jazzbones (with Mr. Melanin, Perry Porter, and The Fame Riot) “The American system is the most ingenious system of control...
View ArticleWheelies: Northern Shapes
Today, Tacoma's Wheelies released a video for their new song “Northern Shapes,” just ahead of a forthcoming debut record with Swoon Records
View ArticleKye Alfred Hillig’s Real Snow
Kye Alfred Hillig's third record, Real Snow, came out this week. All twelve tracks showcase his talent for evocative poetry, but it is not a record one would expect him to make
View ArticleJoin us for a backyard concert with Josiah Johnson & Spirits of the Red City...
On Wednesday, August 6th, Post Defiance is hosting a special backyard concert at a lovely spot near the top of the N. 30th Street hill. Josiah Johnson, one of the vocal and songwriting forces behind...
View ArticleDavid Bowie, musical messiah
“Heaven’s in here / among the twilight and stars / you’ll dance to my tongue / well dance on the sun.” —from “Heaven’s in Here” as found on Tin Machine by Tin Machine It took four Gospel writers, the...
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