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wimps - City Lights

wimps are at it again with City Lights, another slacker punk moshterpiece ready for the internet to gobble up. Lead singer and composer Rachel Ratner offers stark and playful wordage melding minimalist hooky riffage to cover such prescient topics as the rise of ubiquitous ai (Mind Reader); loneliness, growing inequality, and the loss of community and self (City Lights); a yearning for a return to a feral past (Animal); pollution and climate terrorism (Lake Washington), creating life (Mom) and promising a maybe undeliverable hope to that life during an unceasing pandemic (Morning), among other daily mundanity. Dave Ramm is drummer and Matt Nyce plays bass.

Indeed, wimps City Lights may well stand as an artifact of humanity in a time of increasingly glossed and flawed expression. An imperfect, live, energetic, human statement made by 3 imperfect, mostly alive, yet rapidly deteriorating early 40s bit players of various Seattle who’s and what’s of a time long ago and soon to be forgotten. City Lights is a collection of solid classic wimps bops from stop to finish.

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Mediocre Cafe - Print Me

WITH MELLOW TUNES AND SWEET-SOUNDING VOCALS - Mediocre Cafe has come around to prove that you can make “easy listening” music (no pun intended), but sprinkle meaningful lyrics to add more substance. Mediocre Cafe is a project created by songwriter Cooper Coffroth with friends Claire Tauber, Noah Campos, Plum Anderson, and Taylor Kohl. Within this creative project, they were able to produce this work of art called Easy Listening released early May; a collection of songs within the span of two years to which Cooper and the gang cleaned up and perfected. Made to not only have the listener feel at ease with the euphonious instrumentation, but to relate to the lyrics that hold raw emotions in them. - Sharon Lazo of The Luna Collective

The album is released on transparent white cassette tapes and all streaming platforms.

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News // Updates



Dad Rock Is Dead, Long Live Mom Punk

Wimps are back! It's been five long years since Seattle's funnest punk band released new music, and The Stranger is very proud to premiere the video for "Mom," the band's first single from their upcoming album, City Lights (out October 13 on Youth Riot Records).

Wimps Heart Seattle”

It’s early July, and Wimps, the Seattle punk trio of more than 10 years’s existence, are running through songs in their Belltown practice space in preparation for a number of summer gigs. These include a set at the revitalized Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival and a “secret” opening spot for the one-night reunion of erstwhile local punk heroes Pony Time. Like Bumbershoot, though not quite as substantially, Wimps predate the current perception of Seattle as a hellscape built with the devil’s tech money.”


Winsome – “Entertain Us – Live Session”

We’re obviously fans of live music, but when a live session catches our ears, you know it’s truly got to be magical. Sacramento indie/emo act Winsome decided to capture some live footage of a new song they’ve been working on by setting up a few cameras in their living room. With plucky guitars lush with reverb, male/female harmonies, and an urgent undercurrent of emotion, “Entertain Us” has us feeling some type of way…

Lolli Morlock Brings the Heat on Debut EP from New Seattle Supergroup Hell Baby

In 2015, the give-no-fucks garage punk of Mommy Long Legs stole the hearts of Seattle underground music fans, many of whom knew every line of the band’s anti-capitalistic anthem, “Assholes” (and even now, Mommy Long Legs’ 2018 song, “Call You Out,” has become a viral hit among twenty-somethings on TikTok).


Rat Queen debuts fresh evolution on new single “Circle the Drain”

Most groups disband when a key member moves away. But that hasn’t been the case for Seattle’ Rat Queen, the alt rock brainchild of songwriting partners and best friends, Jeff Tapia and Daniel Timothy Desrosiers.

Enumclaw Wants to Be Everywhere

ast year was a banner year for Tacoma-based rock band Enumclaw. After dropping their first single "Fast N All" in early 2021, the band blew up, nabbing features in the Seattle Times, KEXP, Pitchfork, and The Fader before playing any public live shows. In April, they dropped their debut EP Jimbo Demo to rave reviews.


Funny Face House Takes Listeners to Fuzz Heaven with New Album, 'Dog In Hell'

'Dog In Hell' by funny Face is an incredibly catchy and fun pop-punk EP that has huge hooks. This solid effort emphasizes a lo-fi immediacy and puts the music directly in your face with unbridled excitement and enthusiasm.

Overlooked album: Alfredo Ghosts || Alfredo Ghosts

Aliens, ghosts, horror and science fiction are popular themes in music. This month there are excellent releases from The Incomprehensible Static (Transmitting Live From The Future) and Lookit, Martians! (Space Boogie) on these themes, and it was pointed out to me that I overlooked Alfredo Ghosts‘ self-titled debut album when it came out late October.


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