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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

Portugal. The Man's John Gourley on In the Mountain in the Cloud, Andy Wallace, Americans Abroad, and Those Palin Kids

Emily Dyan Ibarra​Confession: For the past four or five days, I've really only been listening to one song. In my defense, it's a really, really good song. Last Friday Atlantic Records sent me a four-song sampler of some brand-new stuff from Portugal. The Man's forthcoming sixth album, In the M ... More >>

Pickwick

Emily Dyan Ibarra​Confession: For the past four or five days, I've really only been listening to one song. In my defense, it's a really, really good song. Last Friday Atlantic Records sent me a four-song sampler of some brand-new stuff from Portugal. The Man's forthcoming sixth album, In the M ... More >>

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears

Emily Dyan Ibarra​Confession: For the past four or five days, I've really only been listening to one song. In my defense, it's a really, really good song. Last Friday Atlantic Records sent me a four-song sampler of some brand-new stuff from Portugal. The Man's forthcoming sixth album, In the M ... More >>

Teengirl Fantasy

Emily Dyan Ibarra​Confession: For the past four or five days, I've really only been listening to one song. In my defense, it's a really, really good song. Last Friday Atlantic Records sent me a four-song sampler of some brand-new stuff from Portugal. The Man's forthcoming sixth album, In the M ... More >>

Fitz & The Tantrums

Emily Dyan Ibarra​Confession: For the past four or five days, I've really only been listening to one song. In my defense, it's a really, really good song. Last Friday Atlantic Records sent me a four-song sampler of some brand-new stuff from Portugal. The Man's forthcoming sixth album, In the M ... More >>

Mayer Hawthorne & The County

Emily Dyan Ibarra​Confession: For the past four or five days, I've really only been listening to one song. In my defense, it's a really, really good song. Last Friday Atlantic Records sent me a four-song sampler of some brand-new stuff from Portugal. The Man's forthcoming sixth album, In the M ... More >>

Joan Osborne

Emily Dyan Ibarra​Confession: For the past four or five days, I've really only been listening to one song. In my defense, it's a really, really good song. Last Friday Atlantic Records sent me a four-song sampler of some brand-new stuff from Portugal. The Man's forthcoming sixth album, In the M ... More >>

Dear Brent Amaker: I Am Sorry I Abandoned Your Show Early. You Can Blame the Night Beats

The Night Beats - "Shadows in the Night" The following is as much a review as it is an explanation of my motives to all of the friends I ran into at the Croc on Friday night who thought I was certifiably insane for ditching out on the insanely packed, fire hazard of a spectacle that was Brent Amak ... More >>

Phantogram

The Night Beats - "Shadows in the Night" The following is as much a review as it is an explanation of my motives to all of the friends I ran into at the Croc on Friday night who thought I was certifiably insane for ditching out on the insanely packed, fire hazard of a spectacle that was Brent Amak ... More >>

Sharon Jones: Soul and R-E-S-P-E-C-T

The icon-come-lately discusses life, love, and not dating when you live with your mom.

Al Kooper

The icon-come-lately discusses life, love, and not dating when you live with your mom.

Cake

The icon-come-lately discusses life, love, and not dating when you live with your mom.

Cake

The icon-come-lately discusses life, love, and not dating when you live with your mom.

Non Sequitur: Deja Vu at QFC

​You know that scene in Ratatouille when tasting that namesake dish the critic is transported through a memory vortex to childhood? This tableau at QFC did that to me. 1980 to be exact. Times were hard then, too. Mom was in the car (a yellow Camaro) with Luther Vandross blasting, as she was wo ... More >>

Three Acts I'm Not Going to Miss at Bumbershoot: Mayer Hawthorne, Sly and Robbie, and D. Black

​Mayer Hawthorne, Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Fisher Green Stage: There's something about neo soul that's always irked me. And there's definitely something awry when contemporary acts go too far in trying to recreate the sounds of the '60s. Thankfully, Ann Arbor, MI's Mayer Hawthorne strikes the righ ... More >>

Early Leader McGinn Not Surprised by Early Lead

Flanked by his family, McGinn meets the press early Tuesday night.​He was outspent by hundreds of thousands of dollars and continually polled in third place leading up to election day, but as of today's early (and very incomplete) returns, Mike McGinn leads the mayoral race primary--taking 26. ... More >>

The Stone River Boys

Wednesday, July 1

Alice Russell

Thursday, March 26

Tara Jane O'Neil

Friday, September 12

Al Green

Friday, September 5

Bumbershoot: Three-Sentence Review Of The Walkmen

Friday, September 5

Prince's Biggest Mistake Ever

Friday, September 5

Gnarls Barkley’s Switch from ADD Workouts to Xanax Meditations

Will it help them evade one-hit-wonder status?

Mark Pickerel: SXNW

Will it help them evade one-hit-wonder status?

Amy Crackhouse

Will it help them evade one-hit-wonder status?

The Weekend Preview: Post Holiday Slump Edition

Will it help them evade one-hit-wonder status?

DJ Sad Bastard Plays Depressing Records That Cheer People Up

A case of the Mondays.

Nothing but Love for Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

Twenty-first-century old-school soul.

Baby, You Make Me Feel Like...Like It's Server Reboot Wednesday

Twenty-first-century old-school soul.

Mmmmmmmm Drop!

Twenty-first-century old-school soul.

Only Mom Can Stop Vitamin D From Winning Beat Battles

Dude's known Lionel Richie nearly as long as Nicole.

Jamaica to Toronto

Plus reviews of Black Heart Procession, Spencer Wiggins, and Daniel Johnston.

Soul for Sale

Mary J. Blige and Van Hunt trade on their idiosyncracies.

A Cellarful of Noise

Miles Davis' The Cellar Door Sessions 1970.

In a Bull's-Eye

A traveling DJ school sees Seattle as fertile territory for musical innovation.

Looking Back, Seeing Double

A new CD set defines 'classic rock' once and for all.

Eccentric Elephants

A new CD set defines 'classic rock' once and for all.

Pinkk

Also: SketchFest Seattle, Ray Caesar, The Funk Brothers, and Cornel West

Ash Flow

Irish rockers plug into the electronica-powered Area 2 tour.

CD Reviews

Irish rockers plug into the electronica-powered Area 2 tour.

Life in wonderland

The Charlatans UK love American music.

Can You Dig It?

The Charlatans UK love American music.

No Viagra needed

Cousteau gives that special feeling.

Anti-establishment

Megadeth is still pissing people off.

The real real thing

D'Angelo, the man and the mystique, takes shape on stage.