“It’s 11 tracks, because some of the tracks don’t have drums to begin with. It’s all the pop songs without drums… I was really liking the way the vocal mixes sounded with no drums and I think that the ...

Portland band Chromatics’ not-widely-heard “Night Drive” album from 2007 was one of the more influential Pacific Northwest music offerings of the last decade, its Italian-esque, slow-burn disco ...

Need a cure for the Monday blues? We might have found it, with this fetching cover version of the Chromatics’ “Kill for Love” by Haunted (Emily Roll, here in partnership with husband Fred Thomas). The ...

A significant portion of popular music deals with broken hearts and looking for love (in all the wrong places, don’t you know), but Diagrams leader Sam Genders draws inspiration from romantic ...