Gospel Music

Black Nativity

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Leif Totusek

Mavis Staples

Tonight: Retribution Gospel Choir at the Crocodile, Angels & Airwaves at the Showbox SoDo

​Retribution Gospel Choir, with Kinski. Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-7416. 8 p.m. $8. Remember Hoobastank? They were early-2000s mainstream rock at its finest - lots of soaring power chords with lots of unnecessary oomph, vocals just dripping with pathos and urgency? That sort of heavy alt ... More >>

Retribution Gospel Choir

​Retribution Gospel Choir, with Kinski. Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-7416. 8 p.m. $8. Remember Hoobastank? They were early-2000s mainstream rock at its finest - lots of soaring power chords with lots of unnecessary oomph, vocals just dripping with pathos and urgency? That sort of heavy alt ... More >>

Retribution Gospel Choir's 2: Hope You Liked Hoobastank

RGC will play the Crocodile on April 7.​Artist: Retribution Gospel Choir Album: 2 Label: Sub Pop Release date: January 26 Rating (Skip, Stream, or Buy): Skip Download Watch:"The Reason" Remember Hoobastank? They were early-2000s mainstream rock at its finest - lots of soaring power chords wit ... More >>

Last Night: More Than Fifty Grammy Award Winners Perform In The Same Room On The Same Night. Who Wins?

Phoenix Chorale​ If you believe that record sales equals music relevancy, then you may think that classical music - which accounted for less than three percent of all record sales in 2009 - needs to be locked up in some museum archive along with the dinosaur bones. However, if you listened ... More >>

Fred Eaglesmith

Phoenix Chorale​ If you believe that record sales equals music relevancy, then you may think that classical music - which accounted for less than three percent of all record sales in 2009 - needs to be locked up in some museum archive along with the dinosaur bones. However, if you listened ... More >>

Bloody Well Wright

The Black Nativity pastor samples Cornell, Sabzi, and Jesus (naturally).

Q&A: Pastor Pat Wright Samples Cornell, Sabzi, and Jesus (Naturally)

​With her Total Experience Gospel Choir, now in its fourth decade, Pastor Pat Wright has traveled as far outside the choir room as Neumos to collaborate with Common Market. She's also gone into the studio to record a stirring cover of Soundgarden's "Jesus Christ Pose". And for her 12th year, W ... More >>

Retribution Gospel Choir Sign to Sub Pop

​ Retribution Gospel Choir, which features Low leader Alan Sparhawk on guitar and vocals, and Low bandmate Steve Garrington on bass, has just signed to Sub Pop. As someone who appreciates the obvious brains behind Low's glacially-paced work, but doesn't have the patience to stay awake during ... More >>

Win Tickets to Michelle Shocked Tonight At the Croc

Gospel singer Michelle Shocked plays the Crocodile tonight at 8 p.m., and while tickets would normally cost $20, shoot an e-mail to me at sbrickner@seattleweekly.com by 5 p.m. and you just might win a pair of tickets to the show. As always, winner will be selected at random. Good luck!

Sam's Elegy: 39 Years

Gospel singer Michelle Shocked plays the Crocodile tonight at 8 p.m., and while tickets would normally cost $20, shoot an e-mail to me at sbrickner@seattleweekly.com by 5 p.m. and you just might win a pair of tickets to the show. As always, winner will be selected at random. Good luck!

What Would Jesus Buy?: Taking the Anti-Consumerist Gospel to Wal-Mart

Gospel singer Michelle Shocked plays the Crocodile tonight at 8 p.m., and while tickets would normally cost $20, shoot an e-mail to me at sbrickner@seattleweekly.com by 5 p.m. and you just might win a pair of tickets to the show. As always, winner will be selected at random. Good luck!

Broken Heart

Gospel singer Michelle Shocked plays the Crocodile tonight at 8 p.m., and while tickets would normally cost $20, shoot an e-mail to me at sbrickner@seattleweekly.com by 5 p.m. and you just might win a pair of tickets to the show. As always, winner will be selected at random. Good luck!

Pike Place Market Centennial

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Smog Dissipates

Celebration

Dec. 20-28, 2006

Your last chance to see that brutal film noir, It's a Wonderful Life.

Holiday Calendar 2005

Your last chance to see that brutal film noir, It's a Wonderful Life.

Holiday Calendar 2005

Your last chance to see that brutal film noir, It's a Wonderful Life.

Holiday Calendar 2005

Your last chance to see that brutal film noir, It's a Wonderful Life.

March 23-29, 2005

Your last chance to see that brutal film noir, It's a Wonderful Life.

Moisture Festival

Also: Lauren Weedman, Doug Aitken, Patrinell Wright and the Total Experience Gospel Choir, and a benefit for Bonni Suval.

More on Gospel

Also: Lauren Weedman, Doug Aitken, Patrinell Wright and the Total Experience Gospel Choir, and a benefit for Bonni Suval.

My Gospel Conversion

A local rock writer, weaned on punk, wakes up to music fueled by a higher power.

The Unheard Music

Atlanta's Dust-to-Digital and Seattle's Sublime Frequencies labels mine lost archives of glorious sound.

Serve Somebody

The gospel according to Bob Dylan.

Elegy of a Snitch

Sam Brown was a gospel singer, drug dealer, and police informant. That last job apparently got him killed.

Dealing with the Lord

Playing gospel behind enemy lines.

Ghosts in the machine

The North Mississippi Allstars hear voices.

Festivities

A guide to holiday happenings in the area

Part II: Xmas showdown

Wherein I finish my Yuletide trek and find much good.

A slob like one of us

Is Christian rock music the new alternative or just another marketing ploy?