Ennio Morricone

The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

The 15 Best '90s Movie Soundtracks

Oh, Uma!​Last week's list of the best soundtracks of the '80s naturally got us thinking--what happened in the next decade? We instantly thought of so many classic '90s soundtracks we couldn't limit it to just 10. Turns out a lot of cool stuff happened in the decade of Zubaz, boy bands, and All ... More >>

Fleet Foxes Debut Helplessness Blues to Intimate Crowd at Columbia City Theater

Fleet Foxes played at the Columbia City Theater on Thursday, April 15th, 2011. Photos by Laura Musselman.​ Fleet Foxes Columbia City Theater Thursday, April 14th, 2011 Using the 140 characters of a Twitter stream as a judge of someone's emotional state is, at best, a bit dubious. Watching Fle ... More >>

Diminished Men

Fleet Foxes played at the Columbia City Theater on Thursday, April 15th, 2011. Photos by Laura Musselman.​ Fleet Foxes Columbia City Theater Thursday, April 14th, 2011 Using the 140 characters of a Twitter stream as a judge of someone's emotional state is, at best, a bit dubious. Watching Fle ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

From Bad Religion to Built to Spill.

Tonight: State of the Artist at the High Dive, Federale at the Comet

​State of the Artist, with Dark Time Sunshine, Clockwork, Rafael Vigilantics, Voidpedal, DJ Swervewon. High Dive, 513 N. 36th St., 632-0212. 9:30 p.m. $8. Hailing from the north, south and west of Seattle, the colorful trio of S.O.T.A. Boys might be young, but after sharing stages with the lik ... More >>

Federale

​State of the Artist, with Dark Time Sunshine, Clockwork, Rafael Vigilantics, Voidpedal, DJ Swervewon. High Dive, 513 N. 36th St., 632-0212. 9:30 p.m. $8. Hailing from the north, south and west of Seattle, the colorful trio of S.O.T.A. Boys might be young, but after sharing stages with the lik ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommmended Shows

​State of the Artist, with Dark Time Sunshine, Clockwork, Rafael Vigilantics, Voidpedal, DJ Swervewon. High Dive, 513 N. 36th St., 632-0212. 9:30 p.m. $8. Hailing from the north, south and west of Seattle, the colorful trio of S.O.T.A. Boys might be young, but after sharing stages with the lik ... More >>

Music in Movies on Mondays: A Fistful of Dollars

​My very first record is hard to pin down. I think I was given the soundtrack to Star Wars, The Best of Ray Charles and the soundtrack to Fistful of Dollars

Weekend Live Music Roundup: Friday, June 26 through Sunday, June 28

Friday: Hip hop showcase the Corner is happening at the Jewelbox again tonight, and they've got a great line-up this month: Onry Ozzborn & the Gigantics, Avatar, Speedy, Thee Satisfaction and DJ Swervewon. As always, that's at 10:30 p.m. and costs$5. Hoquiam, Loyalty is Blue, Bryan John Appleby a ... More >>

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Concerts

Friday: Hip hop showcase the Corner is happening at the Jewelbox again tonight, and they've got a great line-up this month: Onry Ozzborn & the Gigantics, Avatar, Speedy, Thee Satisfaction and DJ Swervewon. As always, that's at 10:30 p.m. and costs$5. Hoquiam, Loyalty is Blue, Bryan John Appleby a ... More >>

Spindrift

Sunday, June 28

SIFF Review: Once Upon a Time in the West

After transforming the old west into the cool, cruel mercenary world of the Clint Eastwood Dollar films and defining the style and attitude of the spaghetti western, Sergio Leone made this honest to God American western epic. Once Upon a Time in the West was shot (like his Eastwood films) largely in ... More >>

Rocket Queen: Stereo Sanctity

Wow & Flutter keep you guessing.

I Care a Lot: In Defense of Faith No More

Now that our esteemed music editor has gotten his lambasting-by-comments cherry popped, I figured it's only fair that I come clean about my perspective on the merits of Faith No More and their impending string of reunion shows. I think it's fucking great news; FNM is a band worth revisiting, and ... More >>

Krist Novoselic: We All Owe Something to The Melvins

Krist Novoselic's column runs every Tuesday on the Daily Weekly. Listen to an mp3 of The Melvins' Buzz Osborne, Dave Groh, and Novoselic at The Crocodile in 1992. Going on twenty five years as a band, The Melvins' new album, Nude With Boots, shows them stronger than ever. I want to tell you a litt ... More >>

REVERBfest at Mr. Spot’s Chai House

Husbands, Love Your Wives, Man Plus, Pufferfish ...

REVERBfest Line-Up: Mr. Spot's Chai House

Husbands, Love Your Wives, Man Plus, Pufferfish ...

How to Frill With Your Quill: Ed Fotheringham

A New Yorker-via-grunge artist with a fabulous trademark helps me develop a signature style.

Sunday Morning Coming Down

A guarded speakeasy meets the press.

Aussie Take on Seattle's "Mellow Gold" Movement : The Curse of Company

A guarded speakeasy meets the press.

SIFF Week 4: Picks & Pans

Russian mobsters, Hong Kong gangsters, murder in Italy, sex tourism in Nepal, and sheep rustling in Sardinia—it’s an international crime wave! See our SIFF Guide 2008 for more. By SW staff and contributors

An Avant-Metal Icon Mellows, and the Results Are Sensational

The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull is the most melodic, clearheaded record in the Earth catalog.

Bop Street Records: Das Llamas, Throw Me the Statue, Talbot Tagora ...

The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull is the most melodic, clearheaded record in the Earth catalog.

Paul Newman and Sergio Leone Are Still Golden

The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull is the most melodic, clearheaded record in the Earth catalog.

The Fall, Gonzales, Earth, and Others

The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull is the most melodic, clearheaded record in the Earth catalog.

You Spin Me Round

The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull is the most melodic, clearheaded record in the Earth catalog.

THURSDAY

Emotional and aesthetic ravishment; mallet-wielding as a vociferous musical threat.

What it do: the Weekend

Emotional and aesthetic ravishment; mallet-wielding as a vociferous musical threat.

The Short List

Highlights-and otherwise-from this week's music calendar.

Oddballs & Events

This week's specialty screenings and venues.

Jaks

Also: Chamillionaire/DJ Whoo Kid and My Summer of Love.

Gentle on My Mind

Italian duo Jennifer Gentle speak the lingua franca of psych rock.

Internal Wrangling

Clinic make their first-and-a-half album—the third time around.

Secret Names

Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Low.

CD Reviews

Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Low.

Hiding in Plain Sight

The Sun City Girls are Seattle's biggest cult band, with 70-odd albums that run the gamut from fascinating to infuriating. They're also changing the face of aural ethnography with their Sublime Frequencies record label. So why haven't you heard of them?

The Tarantino Britannica

We thought maybe QT had more to offer than encyclopedic movie references. We were wrong.

Rocking the Casbah

This ain't the Boston Tea Party: A guerrilla-warfare classic pulls no punches in its depiction of the Algerian uprising.

Beats for Sale

DFA's indie-rock expansions.

Kung Fu for Dummies: Kill Bill Vol. I

Half a sword-wielding revenge epic is better than a whole decade without Tarantino. But his latest is more like a movie-survey course than a movie.

Joyful Process

Supreme Beings of Leisure find delight in the details.

More Morricone

Supreme Beings of Leisure find delight in the details.

The Films: A-E

Supreme Beings of Leisure find delight in the details.

The Same Old Songs

Supreme Beings of Leisure find delight in the details.

Bow down to David Holmes

Supreme Beings of Leisure find delight in the details.

Smashing Pumpkins: Do they suck?

Supreme Beings of Leisure find delight in the details.

Fall arts preview

Film picks

Bows, Bree Sharp, Bernard Herrmann, Brokeback

Film picks

Zorn of plenty

Some might call John Zorn prolific—others have less neutral adjectives for him.