Manchester

How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?: The British Starchitect Follows the Money

Manchester Orchestra and Cage The Elephant at the Mercy of Sold Out Crowd, Last Night at Showbox SoDo

Manchester Orchestra​ Manchester Orchestra / Cage The Elephant Showbox SoDo Thursday, June 9 Two bands might have split the bill, but only one caught the support of a crowd filled to the brim with 16 year olds and their parents. Like witnessing the "Surprise!" go to the wrong person at a bir ... More >>

5 Ways to Experience (and Relive) the Top Summer Music Festivals Without Leaving Home

Arcade Fire is headling Bonnaroo 2011 alongside Eminem, Lil Wayne, and Widespread Panic.​ Summer music festivals are a gentle reminder that poor people suck. The biggest icons of music all get together for three or four nights of sweaty crowds and drinking-induced chaos, and anyone who can't s ... More >>

Star Slinger

Arcade Fire is headling Bonnaroo 2011 alongside Eminem, Lil Wayne, and Widespread Panic.​ Summer music festivals are a gentle reminder that poor people suck. The biggest icons of music all get together for three or four nights of sweaty crowds and drinking-induced chaos, and anyone who can't s ... More >>

The Virgin's Guide to Decibel Fest

Put your hands up 4 Seattle!

Looking for Eric: Ken Loach Makes a Welcome Foray Into Comedy

Put your hands up 4 Seattle!

NME Names 50 Best New Bands of 2010, and Only One Seattle Musician Made the Cut

In honor of 2010's halfway mark, NME has made a list of the 50 best bands to debut this year. In usual NME style, a good chunk of what the mag calls the "most exciting new acts" are from predictable places like London, New York, or California. (The No. 1 band, Best Coast, hails from Los Angeles; t ... More >>

Seattle Needs a Logo

Alec Schmidt & Levi WinteringWe don't have a logo yet. But whatever is the opposite of this guy seems appropriate.​There's a movement afoot to give every major city in the world a logo. And surprisingly, no one has yet submitted an entry for Seattle. CitID -- like "city identification," but s ... More >>

Tonight: Maxwell & Jill Scott @ Key Arena, The Buzzcocks at El Corazon

​Maxwell & Jill Scott, with Guy Torry. Key Arena, 305 Harrison St., 682-8225. 7 p.m. $39.50-$150. All ages. Drawing on his most recent chart-topping release BLACKsummers'night as well as 1996's multi-platinum Urban Hang Suite, the Brooklyn-born Maxwell's silky vocal stylings ponder love and em ... More >>

Buzzcocks

​Maxwell & Jill Scott, with Guy Torry. Key Arena, 305 Harrison St., 682-8225. 7 p.m. $39.50-$150. All ages. Drawing on his most recent chart-topping release BLACKsummers'night as well as 1996's multi-platinum Urban Hang Suite, the Brooklyn-born Maxwell's silky vocal stylings ponder love and em ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

​Maxwell & Jill Scott, with Guy Torry. Key Arena, 305 Harrison St., 682-8225. 7 p.m. $39.50-$150. All ages. Drawing on his most recent chart-topping release BLACKsummers'night as well as 1996's multi-platinum Urban Hang Suite, the Brooklyn-born Maxwell's silky vocal stylings ponder love and em ... More >>

Falling in Love with the Buzzcocks All Over Again

Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" is the quintessential single from the ultimate English singles band, two minutes and 40 seconds of pop-punk genius that stands up to anything to come out of that scene and has stood the test of time, 32 years on. The song was inspi ... 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 >>

Run, Get Yer Suit Pressed! Moondoggies Are Hitting the Road With Blitzen Trapper

Not a Moondoggie: Nick Nelson is The Moondoggies' tour manager.​It seems like just yesterday that The Moondoggies were hopping off their first national tour (an excursion you can read all about in the tour diary they kept on this here blog). But the boys have already lined up another run of sh ... More >>

Free MP3: Blitzen Trapper's "Heaven and Earth," Off Their Forthcoming Record

Jade Harris​Portland's Blitzen Trapper will release their fifth full-length, Destroyer of the Void, on June 8 on Sub Pop. Right now you can download the record's first single, "Heaven and Earth," on Sub Pop's website - and I really urge you to do so. It's a beautifully clear and focused piano ... More >>

Boy A: Crime and Punishment in the UK

Jade Harris​Portland's Blitzen Trapper will release their fifth full-length, Destroyer of the Void, on June 8 on Sub Pop. Right now you can download the record's first single, "Heaven and Earth," on Sub Pop's website - and I really urge you to do so. It's a beautifully clear and focused piano ... More >>

Death Cab in BREMERTON!!!!!!!!!!

Jade Harris​Portland's Blitzen Trapper will release their fifth full-length, Destroyer of the Void, on June 8 on Sub Pop. Right now you can download the record's first single, "Heaven and Earth," on Sub Pop's website - and I really urge you to do so. It's a beautifully clear and focused piano ... More >>

Voice of the Seven Woods

Jade Harris​Portland's Blitzen Trapper will release their fifth full-length, Destroyer of the Void, on June 8 on Sub Pop. Right now you can download the record's first single, "Heaven and Earth," on Sub Pop's website - and I really urge you to do so. It's a beautifully clear and focused piano ... More >>

Control: Joy Division Return From the Grave

Jade Harris​Portland's Blitzen Trapper will release their fifth full-length, Destroyer of the Void, on June 8 on Sub Pop. Right now you can download the record's first single, "Heaven and Earth," on Sub Pop's website - and I really urge you to do so. It's a beautifully clear and focused piano ... More >>

Approach Britain’s Editors With a Teenager’s Mind

That way, you won’t loathe them the way the Pitchfork set does.

Modest Mouse

That way, you won’t loathe them the way the Pitchfork set does.

Me Gusta Manu Chao

That way, you won’t loathe them the way the Pitchfork set does.

Jim Noir

Plus CD reviews of Robert Stillman, Heartless Bastards, and Evangelicals.

Seven Nights

Plus CD reviews of Robert Stillman, Heartless Bastards, and Evangelicals.

Notable Shows

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

Nine Black Alps

Plus: Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up and Thomas Strønen.

And They All Wrote

A roundup of music books for the holidays.

A Day in the Life

What goes on in Seattle's musical life over a 24-hour span? Seattle Weekly's music writers spent Friday, Oct. 21, roaming around the city to find out.

Swingin' Party

What goes on in Seattle's musical life over a 24-hour span? Seattle Weekly's music writers spent Friday, Oct. 21, roaming around the city to find out.

June 8-14, 2005

What goes on in Seattle's musical life over a 24-hour span? Seattle Weekly's music writers spent Friday, Oct. 21, roaming around the city to find out.

Atmosphere

Also: Mu, and Astor Piazzolla.

Danny Boyle

The Millions director is a child of the suburbs himself.

Where Are They Now?

Playing lost and found with three noted area chefs.

Shedding the Sheds

As the concert industry restructures, fans and artists are scaling back.

Factory Ready

The Stills live up to their own moniker.

After the Fall

Blue Orchids reissued.

CD Reviews

Blue Orchids reissued.

How Soon Is Now?

Fifteen years after leaving the Smiths, Johnny Marr finally speaks up.

Pleasure and Pain

Fifteen years after leaving the Smiths, Johnny Marr finally speaks up.

Days of our nights

Fifteen years after leaving the Smiths, Johnny Marr finally speaks up.

Days of our nights

Fifteen years after leaving the Smiths, Johnny Marr finally speaks up.

Life in wonderland

The Charlatans UK love American music.

CD Reviews

The Charlatans UK love American music.

Bracing for the Fall

Which Mark E. Smith will show up?

Joy Division Remembered

Which Mark E. Smith will show up?

Dinosaurs and Bunnymen

Which Mark E. Smith will show up?

Re-orientation

This year's queer film fest heads in new directions.

Bossa Nova

Doing the Brazilian mating dance.

East is East

This father doesn't know best.

Hatching trouble

Hatcheries scientists want to restock vanishing bottomfish. Some of their colleagues fear a salmon-style disaster.