Attention residents of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest! The Cumulus Music Festival is happening this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Seattle, WA. In its second year, the shows will feature such bands as Scriptures, Joy Wants Eternity, Talkdemonic, This Blinding Light, Bill Horist and The Luna Moth. This is the kind of event lovers of the music we cover would love to attend. Inexpensive and awesome.

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February
February 8: Another Electronic Musician ~ States of Space
February 8: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra ~ Kollaps Tradixionales
February 8: Miko Vainio ~ Time Examined
February 8: Milhaven ~ Milhaven
February 8: Yellow Swans ~ Going Places
February 9: Aarktica ~ In Sea Remixes
February 9: A Broken Consort ~ Crow Autumn
February 9: Ben Fleury-Steiner ~ Keep a Weather Eye Open
February 9: Pantha du Prince ~ Black Noise
February 11: Mooncake ~ Zaris EP
February 12: Ian Hawgood ~ Slow Films in Low Light
February 12: Simon Scott ~ Nivalis EP
February 12: Somatic Responses ~ Neon
February 12: The Unwinding Hours ~ The Unwinding Hours
February 15: @c ~ Music for Empty Spaces
February 15: Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson ~ Puzzle the detective
February 16: Carta ~ An Index of Birds
February 16: Motion Turns It On ~ Kaleidoscopic Equinox
February 17: V/A ~ Duskscape Not Seen
February 19: Her Name Is Calla ~ Long Grass EP
February 22: And So I Watch You from Afar ~ Letters EP
February 22: Efterklang ~ Magic Chairs
February 22: Robin Guthrie ~ Sunflower Stories EP
February 22: Koss aka Kuniyuki Takahashi ~ Ancient Rain
February 22: Valgeir Sigurdsson ~ Dreamland Soundtrack
February 22: Souvaris/Sincabeza ~ Clown Jazz EP
February 23: Candle Nine ~ The Muse in the Machine
February 23: Deru ~ Say Goodbye to Useless
February 23: Alan Licht & Loren Connors ~ Into the Night Sky
February 23: Balmorhea ~ Constellations
February 23: Eluvium ~ Similies
February 23: Jack Rose ~ Luck in the Valley
February 23: subtractiveLAD ~ Life at the End of the World
February TBA: Asuna + Opitope ~ Sunroom

March
March 1: Errors ~ Come Down With Me
March 1: Loscil ~ Endless Falls
March 1: Aaron Martin ~ Worried About the Fire
March 1: Polar Bear ~ Peepers
March 1: Sone Institute ~ Curious Memories
March 1: These Monsters ~ Call Me Dragon
March 4: Stray Ghost ~ Nothing, But Death
March 9: Hadoken ~ Luminary
March 9: The Knife/Mt. Sims/Planningtorock ~ Tomorrow, in a Year
March 9: Jatun ~ Blanket of Ash
March 9: Simulacra ~ There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood
March 10: Jan Jelinek & Masayoshi Fujita ~ Bird, Lake, Objects
March 12: Shaking Sensations ~ This Is Your Hellfire Religion! EP
March 17: Melodium ~ Palimpse
March 22: Architect ~ Consume Adapt Create
March 22: Autechre ~ Oversteps
March 22: Harold Budd & Clive Wright ~ Little Windows
March 26: Greg Haines ~ Until the Point of Hushed Support
March TBA: Alva Noto ~ For 2
March TBA: Hammock ~ Chasing After Shadows ... Living With the Ghosts
March TBA: Loveliescrushing ~ CRWTH (Chorus Redux)
March TBA: Metavari ~ Studies Volume One

April
April 1: Ef ~ Mourning golden morning
April 5: FNS ~ FNS
April 5: Jonsi ~ Go
April 6: Red Sparowes ~ The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer
April 16: Dustin O'Halloran ~ Vorleben
April 19: Manual ~ Drowned in Light
April 20: When the Clouds ~ The Longed-For Season
April TBA: Indignant Senility ~ Plays Wagner (vinyl earlier)

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Just like it reads, the staff pick their favorite albums of January. Read it here.

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