I was able to look through the zines in my garage and found a decent pile of Bellingham music rags from the early-to-mid 90’s. The first zine I’m going to feature is Filter, a free music/entertainment newspaper that started spring 1998. The folks behind this paper were students at Western and also did a bit of writing for What’s Up Magazine when it first started around the same time. At the time I was doing a little writing for What’s Up, as well as the Every Other Weekly (now the …

I put off writing my review of the Glasvegas/Carl Barat show because my computer crapped out and I wanted to include some photos in my review. Well, I still don’t have a computer that I can use to upload photos from my camera, so I’ll just have to add them later (the photo shown here is from a different show). I drove down to Seattle last Saturday, braving rock slides on Chuckanut and flooding in the Skagit Valley, not to mention the steady buckets of rain dropping from the sky …

Welcome to the brand new Bell-Tone Records website, a place where you can pick up the finest music Bellingham has to offer. For nearly 12 years I have run Double Crown Records and The Continental magazine, which focus mainly on surf and garage rock. However, I’ve been a big fan of all kinds of local music for many years, and have attended hundreds of shows at venues like the 3-B Tavern, Speedy-O-Tubbs, The Nightlight, The Factory, The Up&Up and many other local venues. With this new website I hope to …