Former Sleater-Kinney member Carrie Brownstein announced on her NPR Monitor Mix blog that she is streaming four songs and offering up two MP3 downloads that are the results of an 8 year old recording session she and Mary Timony [who was a member of Helium, one of my favorite bands] had in Olympia in 2000. The project was known as The Spells and was short-lived.
In the late 1990s, my friend Mary Timony and I started a side project called The Spells. We put out one EP, played one show in Olympia and never did much else. Except that we had plans. We always talked about writing a full-length record, sending song ideas back and forth via computer and recording the album in chunks when we had time — when we weren’t on tour with our other bands. But that never happened.
