Mark Baumgarten

Bumbershoot Saturday: Picks and Notes Featuring Neko Case, Wheedle's Groove, the Decemberists, and More

BOAT Confirmed for Bumbershoot, And a Contest to Design the Permanent Festival Logo

John E. HollingsworthBOAT​We won't know the complete Bumbershoot (Sept. 4 to 6) lineup until Tuesday, June 1, but we don know for sure that Seattle pop rockers BOAT will be on the bill. They're playing at the Hard Rock Cafe on Wednesday, June 2 at a free kickoff party (21 ) for Bumbershoot's s ... More >>

Tonight: Steel Pulse, The Wedding Present, The Song Show

​Steel Pulse, with Selecta Raiford. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 7 p.m. $30. In the late '70s, a young reggae band from an inner-city district of Birmingham (England's Detroit), was losing gigs due to their Rastafarian beliefs. Their anti-racist stance linked them to the p ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

​Steel Pulse, with Selecta Raiford. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 7 p.m. $30. In the late '70s, a young reggae band from an inner-city district of Birmingham (England's Detroit), was losing gigs due to their Rastafarian beliefs. Their anti-racist stance linked them to the p ... More >>

The Song Show

​Steel Pulse, with Selecta Raiford. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 7 p.m. $30. In the late '70s, a young reggae band from an inner-city district of Birmingham (England's Detroit), was losing gigs due to their Rastafarian beliefs. Their anti-racist stance linked them to the p ... More >>

Chamber vs. Chamber

​Steel Pulse, with Selecta Raiford. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 7 p.m. $30. In the late '70s, a young reggae band from an inner-city district of Birmingham (England's Detroit), was losing gigs due to their Rastafarian beliefs. Their anti-racist stance linked them to the p ... More >>

Last Night: Music and Sharing at the Triple Door

Damien Jurado played City Arts' The Song Show on Wednesday, January 6, along with Macklemore, Jesse Sykes, and Grand Hallway's Tomo Nakayama.​After a bit of a sleepy start, Wednesday night's Song Show -- a City Arts event that mashes up intimate performances with songwriter interviews -- woke ... More >>

Tonight: The Song Show, Featuring Jesse Sykes, Damien Jurado and Tomo Nakayama

Jesse Sykes​The Song Show at the Triple Door, 7 p.m., $15, all ages City Arts' Mark Baumgarten used to host his quarterly Song Show at the Can Can when Sound Magazine was still around; tonight's show will be the first to take place at the Triple Door (and be open to an all ages crowd, which i ... More >>

Rocket Queen: Not a Complete Tool

Maynard James Keenan hits the road with his comic sideshow.

Chamber on My Mind: Wednesday's Best Earshot, Steak & Chamber at the Sorrento

Chamber music just doesn't give us enough to write about, except this week. As part of the Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle musician and composer Wayne Horvitz's These Hills of Glory, a chamber music piece, will be played by on the violin, piano, clarinet and flute at the Nordstrom Recital Hall, 7:00 ... More >>

Emily White, Itinerant Editor, Departs City Arts

Emily White, who had a brief and mercurial tenure as arts editor of the Seattle P-I, has now left City Arts magazine, where she was also editor for less than a year. According to a statement I received from Paul Heppner, president & publisher of Encore Media Group, City Arts, which recently merged ... More >>

Revisiting Jem Cohen's Elliot Smith Film

I don't know if it's because Seattle Sound editor Mark Baumgarten recently turned me on to his heartbreakingly beautiful cover of Big Star's "13" (arguably the most romantic song ever committed to tape), the fact that I've re-watched one particular sequence from The Royal Tenenbaums too many times, ... More >>

Welcome to Seattle, Mr. Baumgarten

I don't know if it's because Seattle Sound editor Mark Baumgarten recently turned me on to his heartbreakingly beautiful cover of Big Star's "13" (arguably the most romantic song ever committed to tape), the fact that I've re-watched one particular sequence from The Royal Tenenbaums too many times, ... More >>

DJ Shadow

Also: Stephen Malkmus, Yo La Tengo.

South by Southwest

Also: Stephen Malkmus, Yo La Tengo.