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The homies used to call him Mr. Buzzard. During his first shooting, when he was a teenager living in East L.A., the OG's in his gang sent him back around the block to make...
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Dear Dategirl,
What's the protocol on post-coital behavior? I've heard many jokes about men rolling over and falling asleep after sex, but I'm a man and I would never do that....
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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)An experienced musician could tell you amazing things about a piece of music that you’d be unlikely to notice or understand. A bloodhound’s...
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SPECIAL BEST-OF EDITIONDear Readers,
The Mexican doesn’t want to take this week off, but has to because it’s his mother periódico’s Best Of issue and...
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One night almost exactly a year ago, three of indie rock's most newly hyped acts—the Morning Benders, Twin Sister, and Cults—played Neumos to an amped-up crowd of...
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With Greece's festering debt crisis threatening to topple the Eurozone, citizens of chilly nations to the north have begun tut-tutting about the perceived Greek work ethic....
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If modern gay history started at Stonewall, the 1981 identification of HIV/AIDS began its postmodern chapter. Thirty years later, when safe(r) sex and drug cocktails have at...
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THURSDAY 10/13
Music: From Punk to Bifocals
Like Patti Smith, Nick Lowe was only ever punk by association. Though he served as the rough-and-dirty in-house producer for the...
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After releasing popular self-titled debut last year and riding the hype wave of their ultra-peppy single, “Let’s Go Surfing,” things started to go south for the...
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Battles are one of those too-rare bands that are as dazzling to watch as they are to listen to. There’s Jon Stanier’s athletic drumming, with his trademark crash...
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When seasoned Seattle guitarist Gary Westlake asked super-vixen vocalist Dejha Colantuono (the pipes behind Ragazza and Rotten Apples) to join his Blondie tribute band, she...
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It's somehow fitting that a month full of ghosts and ghouls finds Calgary's Chad Vangaalen coming to town. Vangaalen's high-pitched warble has a pallid, haunted quality that...
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Long-standing West Seattle “cow-punk boogie” band Memphis Radio Kings is now Hondo II, a compact two-piece version comprised of singer/guitarist Charlie Beck and...
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As the drummer for Ravenna Woods, Matt Badger is usually tucked in the back of the stage, partly hidden by his instruments. The opposite is true for his new side project,...
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Mason Jennings and Jack Johnson are both mellow, acoustic-leaning folk singers who were born in Hawaii and have a fondness for surfing. Jennings has opened for Johnson on...
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At the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this past summer, Gang Gang Dance were allotted about as much time to play as any middle-tier act—about an hour or so—but...
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A simple, powerful act of bearing witness, We Were Here is a sober reminder of the not-too-distant past, when gays were focused not on honeymoon plans but on keeping people...
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Ever since Spencer Krug took a break from Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown, he’s been nothing if not forthcoming: the titles of Krug’s two releases as Moonface let you...
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The sleepy hamlet of Shelton is a ways from Seattle’s noisy urban jungle, but for the three members of the folk rock group Lower Lights Burning, it’s the hotbed of...
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Before the contemporary makeover of his pop country career, Vince Gill was a bluegrass disciple who cut a pretty great record with David Grisman, toured with Emmylou Harris,...
