Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Jeremy Enigk w/ SDRE at T5 in 2009 (more by Kurt Christensen) Sunny Day Real Estate frontman Jeremy Enigk played his first solo show in a while on New Year's Eve, and now he's finally announced a full solo... more info

Stereogum — Next month, Foo Fights and Sunny Day Real Estate bassist Nate Mendel will release If I Kill This Thing We’re All Going To Eat For A Week, the debut album of his new project Lieutenant. We’ve already heard “Believe The Squalor,” the melancholy... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown —   Today is the Super Bowl. The day when we celebrate what it means to be American.  We eat, drink, watch sports and pass out.  Here's our pre-game warm-up for all you Seahawk fans. Here are the 11 Best Bands from Seattle (or close by): N... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Jeremy Enigk in Seattle on NYE (via @seattlezack) Sunny Day Real Estate frontman Jeremy Enigk hadn't played a solo show in a very long time but that changed when he rang in New Year's Eve in Seattle at El Corazon... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher While we're still waiting for Sunny Day Real Estate to get back in action again, here's something that's kind of close. Bassist Nate Mendel (also of Foo Fighters and SDRE spinoff The Fire Theft) is releasing a... more info

Stereogum — As the bassist for Foo Fighters and Sunny Day Real Estate, Nate Mendel has been a part of two of the best, most notable rock bands of his generation. Now he’s fronting a band of his own. Mendel’s cheekily named new project Lieutenant will release... more info

Stereogum — Maryland’s Two Inch Astronaut play a sort of math-y emo/post-hardcore that draws from that particular subgenre’s seminal acts: Sunny Day Real Estate, Dismemberment Plan, Cap’n Jazz. And while Two Inch Astronaut may sound awfully familiar (I’m... more info

Stereogum — Over the weekend, presumably in honor of the 20th anniversary of Diary, Sunny Day Real Estate frontman Jeremy Enigk uploaded an acoustic four-track demo of “In Circles,” one of the seminal emo album’s most iconic tracks. Our own Patric Fallon w... more info

Stereogum — “Where were you when you first heard Diary?” It’s a question whose answer will always speak volumes of the era Diary emerged from, the generation it spoke to, and the legacy it left behind. Perhaps more importantly, it’s a question that just ... more info

Stereogum — We’ve already heard one track from Fucked Up’s forthcoming Glass Boys, and the Canadian epic-hardcore band just dropped another. “Led By Hand” kind of combines the soaring, atmospheric emo of Sunny Day Real Estate or Jawbox with a blues-y, sl... more info