Athens

Tinkerer, Traitor, Spy?

Nude on the Moon

Some Show Suggestions For This Evening

Celebrate Passover: Listen to Records Made by Jews

Though we Jews are probably best known for our sense of humor, did you know that Jewish people also make music? It's true! And not just klezmer music, either. So to celebrate my tribe's contributions to popular culture, I bring you eight of my favorite albums made by Jewish people and the people who ... More >>

Can’t Say No

At the Henry, one more reworking of one of the most-depicted events in art.

Peggle Your Way to Health!

One Seattle company tries to prove that playing its games improves your mental state.

New Greek in Ballard

Seattle restaurant openings can sometimes seem like a rush of lemmings. So amid the endless pizza and sushi spots that have sprung up in and around Ballard, we're glad to see the arrival of a cuisine that's considerably less abundant in our town: Plaka Estiatorio, which opened its doors last week.

Dark Meat Drags Underground Rock Below the Mason-Dixon Line

Their live shows are art-punk spectacles torn from the pages of the most acid-fried comic books imaginable.

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Their live shows are art-punk spectacles torn from the pages of the most acid-fried comic books imaginable.

WET Presents a Greek Fragment From the Female Perspective

Their live shows are art-punk spectacles torn from the pages of the most acid-fried comic books imaginable.

Two Feminist Retakes of Greek legend

One bitter, the other bawdy.

Chemical Creation

Of Montreal's Kevin Barnes: Inside/Out.

The Undead '60s

Making good on paisley-tinted retro with groovy indie-popsters Of Montreal.

A Mug of Joeboy

The return of Tuxedomoon.

Munich Muddle

An Israeli assassin begins to question his mission. Steven Spielberg should've done the same.

Choir Masters

The Fiery Furnaces, with special guest— their grandmother.

May 25-31, 2005

The Fiery Furnaces, with special guest— their grandmother.

Here Come the Cops

One of Seattle's fastest-rising rock bands Go Wrong in all the right ways.

Mouse On Mars

Also: Brian Wilson, Macha.

Best Olympic Rower/Future Doctor

TURF: URBAN LIVING

Hobbits vs. Hobbes

Why Seattle isn't ready for the big, bad world.

Buzz

The media, Seattle Center, and homeland security.

Mink Lungs, Yo La Tengo, and More

The media, Seattle Center, and homeland security.

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The media, Seattle Center, and homeland security.

The Night Manager

Rock 'n' roll madman Screamin' Jay Hawkins haunts the silver screen.

Days of our nights

Rock 'n' roll madman Screamin' Jay Hawkins haunts the silver screen.

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Rock 'n' roll madman Screamin' Jay Hawkins haunts the silver screen.

The Southern Thing

Rock 'n' roll madman Screamin' Jay Hawkins haunts the silver screen.

Autumn, agony, and endorphins

Running the Seattle Marathon, mile by painful mile.

Hurts so good

Kelly Hogan does the bummer songs.

Canadians on parade

The New Pornographers lead a barrage of worthy new Vancouver bands.

Fantastical voyage

Of Montreal fill their latest disc with tales of efeblums and ephanities—whatever they are.

Soft Boysmania

Robyn Hitchcock says his old band's new tour zigzags past the reunion problem.

The Culture Bunker

Robyn Hitchcock says his old band's new tour zigzags past the reunion problem.

News Clips— He's seen the light

Robyn Hitchcock says his old band's new tour zigzags past the reunion problem.

Top-10 Lists

Our critics select the best albums by genre, plus singles, local music, and 10 you might have missed.

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Our critics select the best albums by genre, plus singles, local music, and 10 you might have missed.

Good company

The Revolutionary Hydra revel in their inner circle.

Rough trade

Immigrant youths fight to survive in Athens, Greece.

Home boys

Don't tell Fiver and Grandaddy how to rock— they're from Modesto.

Here in Geoduck Junction

Finding a home among the migrants, mavericks, and mutants of the Pacific Northwest.

Coming up for air

Europe's superclub all-stars mix it up on the Global Underground series.

The semiotics of 'South Park'

This movie has warped my fragile, little mind.

PUGET SOUNDS

This movie has warped my fragile, little mind.

Illegal bouzoukis?

A Greek restaurant battles the Liquor Control Board.

Mixed-Up Blessings

Is the Pope Catholic? Sure, but is he a he?

Road rules

A glimpse at the oh-so-glamorous life of a touring rock band.

Rocket Queen: The Cut That Wouldn’t Heal

Vic Chesnutt’s death touches and angers musicians in Seattle and beyond.

Also Out This Week: Nana Grizol's Ruth

Nana Grizol rockin' out​On their brand new sophomore release, Ruth, Athens outfit Nana Grizol (Theo Hilton, Madeline Adams, Matte Cathcart, Patrick Jennings and Elephant Six alums Laura Carter and Robbie Cucchiaro) has produced a collection of lo-fi pop songs so earnest and bouncy that you can ... More >>

Tonight: Nana Grizol at the Vera

​Nana Grizol, iji, the Max Levine Ensemble, A Million Years at the Vera, 7:30 p.m., $6 Athens pop band Nana Grizol's charming, brassy, lo-fi sound is informed by their prominent Athens-based predecessors (and they share a horn section with Neutral Milk Hotel), and while the buoyancy of their ... More >>