Rachel Flotard

Listen to the NPR's report on Visqueen's Message to Garcia. Read More

Rachel Flotard of Visqueen recently sent out an invitation to a pretty awesome event called Footlaos. Read More

In the midst of a potent heat wave in August 2002, Queens of the Stone Age played Graceland , the Seattle club now known as El Corazon. Read More

Neko Case has journeyed some distance since her first solo work a dozen years ago, growing from a tenderly tough alt-country songstress into the visionary and poetic pop auteur of Fox Confessor Brings the Flood . Read More

Squarely fitting Minus the Bear into a musical genre is about as difficult as finding a primo spot for a semi-truck in the Olive Garden parking lot on a Saturday evening. Read More

Minus the Bear, formed in Seattle in 2001 from the ashes of Kill Sadie, Sharks Keep Moving, and groundbreaking mathcore group Botch, offer a breed of experimental indie rock that is as movement-inducing as it is complex. Read More

Message To Garcia is a collection of Visqueen songs that represents a rock and roll epitaph to front woman Rachel Flotard's father. Read More

Longtime Seattle band Visqueen recently released its raucous pop-rock third album, Message to Garcia , to huge critical and fan acclaim. Read More

At one point, the world really was Visqueen's oyster. Read More

A sleepy little drinking village with a condo problem," or so states a t-shirt hanging in the window of Elephants Gerald on Ballard Avenue. Read More