Fargo

Thin Ice: Greg Kinnear Goes on a Crime Spree

Poor Moon, a Fleet Foxes Side Project That Sounds Nothing Like FF, Signs to Sub Pop

​Barely a week after Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman announced that he had a new record on the way -- one that looks to be released by Sub Pop in May -- two of his bandmates have inked a deal with the FF label and are looking at a March release. Poor Moon includes FF's Christian Wargo and Ca ... More >>

Guns N' Roses Is Responsible for My Love of Rock 'n' Roll

Appetite for Destruction remains the most seminal album in my musical development.

Menomena's Danny Seim on Cover Bands, New Members and Being a Control Freak

Laura MusselmanMenomena​Portland band Menomena cobbles heady, experimental rock and roll songs out of as many conflicting instruments and ideas that can be comfortably crammed onto a track. The result is music that is both precise and loose, cacophonous and composed, emotive and detached, unex ... More >>

Woven Bones Signs With Hardly Art, Will Release 7-Inch of New Material Play Wildrose on August 14

​Hardly Art announced today that they will release a Woven Bones 7-inch on August 10 featuring two brand new tracks from the Austin trio, "I've Gotta Get" and "Hey Kid." HA says the songs display all the aural trademarks that you would expect from Woven Bones - overdriven guitar squalls, drivi ... More >>

GodheadSilo Meets Logan's Run

GodheadSilo were a briefly lived, ton-of-bricks duo from Fargo, North Dakota that were highly influential on Northwest bands (they would later go on to work with Murder City Devil leader Spencer Moody, among other collaborators). Logan's Run is a dystopia-driven, sci-fi classic film from the '70s, a ... More >>

Moondoggies Updates Galore: Limited Edition EP, Free MP3, New Full-Length, Summer Tour with Blitzen Trapper

The Moondoggies are playing Neumos this Thursday.​The Moondoggies are about to embark on a nationwide tour with Blitzen Trapper, and they'll have plenty of new material to play all summer. In June, Hardly Art is releasing a limited-edition EP of 5 new songs called You'll Find No Answers Here: ... More >>

On the Nature of Dust

The Moondoggies are playing Neumos this Thursday.​The Moondoggies are about to embark on a nationwide tour with Blitzen Trapper, and they'll have plenty of new material to play all summer. In June, Hardly Art is releasing a limited-edition EP of 5 new songs called You'll Find No Answers Here: ... More >>

Bass Drum of Death Shimmy Down the Road of Success

John Barrett's Bass Drum of Death plays The Funhouse tonight with Lover! and Fried Pony.​"Sorry." "When I hit 65 my car gets really loud" John Barrett apologized as he rattled down the highway in his weathered Corolla. The twenty-two year old was en route to his Seattle show tonight at the Fu ... More >>

A Serious Man: The Coen Brothers’ Loathsome Latest

John Barrett's Bass Drum of Death plays The Funhouse tonight with Lover! and Fried Pony.​"Sorry." "When I hit 65 my car gets really loud" John Barrett apologized as he rattled down the highway in his weathered Corolla. The twenty-two year old was en route to his Seattle show tonight at the Fu ... More >>

Phinney Continues Its War Against the Publicly Idle

​Another update from Seattle's version of Brazil's favelas, aka the War Zone, aka The Killing Fields, aka Crime Central, aka Phinney. When last we checked, Seattle Police told residents to call 911 as soon as they see someone sitting in a parked car. (After writing about that, I got a call fro ... More >>

Dammit, Aren't We Czarred Out By Now?

Czar, circa 1914[Cue Andy Rooney voice:] For a democracy, we sure love our authoritarian royalty, specifically our metaphorical czars. We've got czars for everything from from drugs to borders to cars. But the world's last real, big-time czar encouraged pogroms, mired his country in the mess of Worl ... More >>

SIFF Review: Buick Riviera

If the '90s signal to us today a kind of near nostalgia for grunge rock and the Clinton economic boom, that decade means something quite different for refugees from the Balkan wars. Black-and-white flashbacks to that conflict occasionally interrupt the frozen North Dakota reverie of Hasan (Slavko St ... More >>

New in Town: Renée Zellweger Says You’re Fired!

If the '90s signal to us today a kind of near nostalgia for grunge rock and the Clinton economic boom, that decade means something quite different for refugees from the Balkan wars. Black-and-white flashbacks to that conflict occasionally interrupt the frozen North Dakota reverie of Hasan (Slavko St ... More >>

Seattleites Are in Very Good Shape

So sayeth Men's Health and Women's Health magazines. The only metropolis above us on both lists is Salt Lake City, and they don't drink. After digging my car out with a garden shovel after the snowplow blocked it in on Delridge, I'm certainly in much better shape than I used to be. The complete ... More >>

Beach Burner Bingo

So sayeth Men's Health and Women's Health magazines. The only metropolis above us on both lists is Salt Lake City, and they don't drink. After digging my car out with a garden shovel after the snowplow blocked it in on Delridge, I'm certainly in much better shape than I used to be. The complete ... More >>

Burn After Reading: Coen Brothers Make a Sour Business of Comedy

So sayeth Men's Health and Women's Health magazines. The only metropolis above us on both lists is Salt Lake City, and they don't drink. After digging my car out with a garden shovel after the snowplow blocked it in on Delridge, I'm certainly in much better shape than I used to be. The complete ... More >>

Austen Adaptations Mostly Persuade

Book-It nails the tone, and Attic trips on the irony.

New on DVD: Jack Nicholson Has Never Looked better.

Book-It nails the tone, and Attic trips on the irony.

No Country for Old Men: Javier Bardem—Scariest Haircut Ever!

Book-It nails the tone, and Attic trips on the irony.

The Dating Pool

Wednesday, November 7

Ozzy Responds to Fargo Sting

Wednesday, November 7

Come Party with Ozzy. Syke!

Wednesday, November 7

Traffik Cops

Forget the flamingos, bikinis, and fun. Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx are all business in this process- oriented narco noir.

The Subways

Also: Run the Road 2, Demiricous, Yellowcard, Coldcut, and Foeva Hex.

Jan. 11-18, 2006

This week's specialty screenings and venues.

'Mandatory Lutefisk'

And other ideas on how to stop growth in its tracks.

The Ice Harvest

Opens Wed., Nov. 23, at Pacific Place and others.

North Country

Opens Fri., Oct. 21, at Guild 45 and others.

This Week's Reads

Chuck Klosterman, Nick Jans, Blair Tindall, and Marisa Silver.

I See Evil Dudes

Keanu's OK as a comic-book demon hunter, although Satan ain't as scary as he used to be.

Business Trips

Big Business is more than just a new rock merger.

This Week's Reads

Big Business is more than just a new rock merger.

Ellington for Everyone

Big Business is more than just a new rock merger.

Too Easy Money

The Coen brothers earn a Hollywood-size paycheck for revamping a classic. So why couldn't they afford to write a better script?

Fargo

MGM Home Entertainment., $24.98

Calendar of Merriment

MGM Home Entertainment., $24.98

Calendar of Merriment

MGM Home Entertainment., $24.98

Baby, it's cold outside

The ten commandments of Northwest winter fashion.

I don't want to live!

Fatalistic film-noir fall guy recounts life of woe.

Fathers and sons

Youthful rebellion comes decades too late.

The Soggy Bottom Boys

On the lam, but carrying a tune.

Yokels and moguls

Small town makes for difficult shooting.

Paper tiger

Daily newspapers ain't what they used to be.

Climb every mountain

Adversity accompanied by swelling music, flowing tears.

Almost family

A hotel is not a home, boy journalist discovers.

Laugh and death

A week long celebration of good, mean fun.

Blood Simple

Have the Coen brothers infected our cinema?

SIFF 2000: The Films: A to H

A-H • I-P • R-Z