Our guide to navigating the Northwest’s Fest-iest Festival
Sunset Rubdown
A Bigger Kind of Kill
Despite its fantasy-movie title, Sunset Rubdown’s Dragonslayer is
surprisingly accessible and moving.
Take This Job and Shove It
Before he was everywhere, recording and touring with Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Frog Eyes, and others, Spencer Krug worked at a bakery and hated it. It was killing him. So he quit, with the plan to instead focus on music full time. “It sounds very grandiose,” Krug says, pausing to decide whether what he just […]
Pop’s Bastard Sons
Spencer Krug keeps busy. In the past few years, he’s split his time juggling duties in no less than four bands. He’s responsible for the half of Wolf Parade’s songs that do not resemble Bruce Springsteen’s. He occasionally contributes keyboards to Frog Eyes’ visceral live shows and albums. Last year, he collaborated with Frog Eyes’ […]
