Bing Crosby

Overnight: Next Time Take the Train

Unlikely Bedfellows: The Ten Strangest, Most Unholy Collaborations in Rock

The news that Lil Wayne and Limp Bizkit had collaborated on a new single, subsequent to Durst and co.'s equally-befuddling signing to Cash Money label, was confusing at best, alarming at worst. (Actual quote from label co-founder Bryan "Birdman" Williams: "We have always admired how they have been a ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events

The news that Lil Wayne and Limp Bizkit had collaborated on a new single, subsequent to Durst and co.'s equally-befuddling signing to Cash Money label, was confusing at best, alarming at worst. (Actual quote from label co-founder Bryan "Birdman" Williams: "We have always admired how they have been a ... More >>

Pink Martini

The news that Lil Wayne and Limp Bizkit had collaborated on a new single, subsequent to Durst and co.'s equally-befuddling signing to Cash Money label, was confusing at best, alarming at worst. (Actual quote from label co-founder Bryan "Birdman" Williams: "We have always admired how they have been a ... More >>

The Top 10 Oscar-Worthy Musical Experiences

Lisssssst by Gwendolyn Elliott As Oscar season approaches, we thought it'd be prudent to offer a Oscar-worthy list of our own. Not our predictions or wish-lists for the Academy Awards--and definitely not limited to 2010--but a list of the top 10 scenes, snippets, movies, and videos of music-relat ... More >>

La Bete Puts the B in Superb

Chez Gaudy's successor is SUPER BADASS!

16 Years Later, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" Still Tops Holiday Charts

​Love her or hate her, Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas has certainly withstood time. Billboard has released a list of the 100 hottest holiday songs, based on sales and airplay data. At the top of the list: Mariah Carey's 1994 hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You," ousting beloved carols by Bing ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

​Love her or hate her, Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas has certainly withstood time. Billboard has released a list of the 100 hottest holiday songs, based on sales and airplay data. At the top of the list: Mariah Carey's 1994 hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You," ousting beloved carols by Bing ... More >>

Road to Morocco

​Love her or hate her, Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas has certainly withstood time. Billboard has released a list of the 100 hottest holiday songs, based on sales and airplay data. At the top of the list: Mariah Carey's 1994 hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You," ousting beloved carols by Bing ... More >>

Bing Crosby, Tacoma Native Dead for Three Decades, Mounts a Winning Film Comeback

​Thirty-three years after his death, Tacoma-born and Spokane-raised crooner/actor Bing Crosby has baseball fans and historians excited about his "new" film on The Best Game Ever Played - the 1960 World Series between the New York Yankees and the team he co-owned, the Pittsburgh Pirates. The fi ... More >>

A Soundtrack to Christmas Morning

Whether any of us like it or not, we are guaranteed to be subjected to hour upon hour of Christmas music every year around this time. Go out to pick up 2 things at the grocery store? Christmas music, pumping overhead. Hardware store? Same thing. Hell, even getting pho a couple times last week, I was ... More >>

First Call: Warm Holiday Cheer at Elliott's Oyster House

You wouldn't know it to look at him, but this guy is a 10-year vet of the Seattle Schmance bartending scene.​"I'm.... dreamin'... of a white.... Christmas," Bing Crosby croons on the speakers while gaggles of tourists discuss what Emerald City site to see next over platters of oysters. Avoid ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

You wouldn't know it to look at him, but this guy is a 10-year vet of the Seattle Schmance bartending scene.​"I'm.... dreamin'... of a white.... Christmas," Bing Crosby croons on the speakers while gaggles of tourists discuss what Emerald City site to see next over platters of oysters. Avoid ... More >>

Xmas Pops Sing-Along

You wouldn't know it to look at him, but this guy is a 10-year vet of the Seattle Schmance bartending scene.​"I'm.... dreamin'... of a white.... Christmas," Bing Crosby croons on the speakers while gaggles of tourists discuss what Emerald City site to see next over platters of oysters. Avoid ... More >>

Oh My God! A Bear Ate Elvis Costello!

We find Stephen Colbert the night of his Christmas Special taping putting the final touches on his own set of Christmas carols in a woodsy cabin, presumably somewhere in upstate New York. "Boy... what rhymes with boy." Stephen wants all new songs for his special because every time someone plays Wh ... More >>

Frances Farmer Tribute

We find Stephen Colbert the night of his Christmas Special taping putting the final touches on his own set of Christmas carols in a woodsy cabin, presumably somewhere in upstate New York. "Boy... what rhymes with boy." Stephen wants all new songs for his special because every time someone plays Wh ... More >>

Last Night: Hellyeah, Machine Head, Nonpoint, Bury Your Dead in Spokane

We find Stephen Colbert the night of his Christmas Special taping putting the final touches on his own set of Christmas carols in a woodsy cabin, presumably somewhere in upstate New York. "Boy... what rhymes with boy." Stephen wants all new songs for his special because every time someone plays Wh ... More >>

The Daily Wire: Golden Very Oldies

We find Stephen Colbert the night of his Christmas Special taping putting the final touches on his own set of Christmas carols in a woodsy cabin, presumably somewhere in upstate New York. "Boy... what rhymes with boy." Stephen wants all new songs for his special because every time someone plays Wh ... More >>

Sondre Lerche

One of music’s most charming crooners

Thanks For The Hypocrisy

One of music’s most charming crooners

Jingle Hell

The retail nightmare of hearing Starbucks' Holiday Grind, Sarah McLachlan's Wintersong, and other Christmas music travesties, on repeat, for weeks on end.

Home Listening for the Holidays

Seattle Weekly home-tests some Christmas-and-related albums.

Cheap Gifts!

Last-minute items for stressed-out wallets that will make you, the giver, look shrewd.

CD Reviews

Last-minute items for stressed-out wallets that will make you, the giver, look shrewd.

Music Previews

Last-minute items for stressed-out wallets that will make you, the giver, look shrewd.

The Road to Morocco

Last-minute items for stressed-out wallets that will make you, the giver, look shrewd.

Boxing Day

Rounding up the latest in multi-CD sets, just in time for your final holiday shopping dash.

Spin Cycle

Coming back around to vinyl for holiday music.

Everlasting pieces

The odds and ends of music superstars hit the EMP.

The second wave

After Ocean's Eleven, more Rat Pack remakes.

The way we were

Male bonding and espionage span the decades.

Radio days

Once again, Woody tunes in to a distant wavelength.

The Holiday Canon

Fire away with everything from Charlie Brown to Cole Porter

Your CD Player or Mine?

Makeout music that knows the (ahem) score

Joey to the world

Makeout music that knows the (ahem) score

Citizen John

Makeout music that knows the (ahem) score

The Old, Normal America

A pair of pre-war compilations highlight American pop at its most forward-looking.

A darker shade of pale

Kevin Joyce's enigmatic trio of characters lives again.

Chestnuts toasted

Judging from this year's Christmas releases, it's best to stick with the classics.

The Babyface Assassin

He looked like an angel and punched like a mule: the Northwest's JimmyMcLarnin fought his way through boxing's golden age and has lived to tell all.