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Tell Me About That Album: Little Mountain by Said the Whale

​Creating a hook-heavy sound from a variety of indie rock influences, Vancouver, Canada's Said the Whale are hitting the road this month in support of their third full length, Little Mountain, which is out March 6th. The band won the Juno for Best New Group last year, and this year the band is ... More >>

The Budos Band Nearly Renders The Song Superfluous, Keeps The Beat Fresh...For Now

-me​ The Budos Band Neumos Sunday, February 19 Staten Island cool guys The Budos Band sold out Neumos last night (I know because my poor, stupid friend Brian couldn't get a last minute ticket), and played their seventies-recalling spice to a T. Performing as a nine piece this night (drummer B ... More >>

Paul McCartney: Down Stream

The former Beatle snubs Rhapsody and other subscription services.

Concord Says McCartney's Management Wants to Make an Event Out of Giving the Beatle's Solo Catalog Back to Subscription Services

Paul McCartney "shocked" Rhapsody last week when the former Beatle pulled his music from the Seattle-based music subscription service on the same day he released his new album of standards, Kisses on the Bottom. We were shocked this week when his label, Concord, called McCartney and his managers "pr ... More >>

Paul McCartney Pulls His Music From Rhapsody, Spotify, and Every Other Music-Subscription Service

Paul McCartney is the latest artist to snub music-subscription services, and in a big way. GeekWire is reporting that the former Beatle has yanked all his tunes from streaming subscription services like Spotify, MOG, and Seattle's Rhapsody. This does not bode well for the prospect of the Beatles' ca ... More >>

School Bus Drivers Abandoning Helpless Children By the Side of the Road: An Epidemic?

Image Source​Well, probably not an epidemic. But last week's incident in Renton, in which a school bus driver dropped two 5-year-old children off at the end of the driver's route, leaving them to flag down cars as they walked alongside the freeway, got us wondering: How often does this type of ... More >>

Elliott Smith Wall in Silver Lake Restored in Honor of Smith's Birthday

​The Elliott Smith wall in Silver Lake, Calif.--the red, white, and black muraled wall on Sunset Boulevard in front of which Smith posed for his Figure 8 album and later became a memorial to the musician after his death in 2003--has been defaced by graffiti and restored a couple of the times i ... More >>

Duff McKagan: You Know You're a Seattle Hipster If . . .

Don't worry. There's a way out.

6 Sure-Fire Signs That You're a Seattle Hipster

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb.​There seems to be a premium these days on a certain avenue and chic-ness of cool, to those young city folk who may very well be the leaders of art and culture. And then of course there are the outwardly visible hipsters who would like to thi ... More >>

Raiding Jonesy's Jukebox for White Lies, Quadron, and Jim Noir

Jim NoirDuff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday. Got a question for Duff about politics, love, or the Seahawks? Send all queries to askduff@seattleweekly.com.​Sometimes, luck, fate, good fortune or whatever.. ... More >>

Until Concord Reissues McCartney I & II, Possibly In Early 2011, Digital Music Subscribers Should Consult Their Nearest Used Vinyl Bin

​I found something at Capitol Hill's Sonic Boom a couple weekends ago that, try as I might, I haven't been able to find on either of the music subscription services I subscribe to: Paul McCartney's 1980 solo record, McCartney II. It hasn't always been this way. While McCartney's former band h ... More >>

Crab Recall Affects Washington State

That thing looks pretty mean even without the Listeria monocytogenes...​Since we've already spent a good chunk of time today discussing one of Seattle's big food obsessions (salmon, and the possible release to market of genetically engineered salmon which will someday rise up and enslave us al ... More >>

Special Ethnic Studies Edition

That thing looks pretty mean even without the Listeria monocytogenes...​Since we've already spent a good chunk of time today discussing one of Seattle's big food obsessions (salmon, and the possible release to market of genetically engineered salmon which will someday rise up and enslave us al ... More >>

Watch a 5th Grade Chorus Cover Beach House's "Zebra"

My elementary school was not this cool. The fifth-graders of Staten Island's PS22 Chorus, who've already covered Lady Gaga, Fleetwood Mac, Phoenix, and the Cure, just added a Beach House song to their repertoire. In anticipation of the Beach House show tonight at Neumos, watch the chorus' version ... More >>

A Dork Among Hipsters

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.​This week I am down in L.A. My wife and kids are away for the first part of spring break while I had to stay back and put in some work. But this is all OK. Sometimes i ... More >>

Pre-Party Prix Fixe at Taste, And Other Last Minute New Year's Eve Options

credit: farm3.static.flickr.com/2350/2155622662_882f1acf2c.jpg​To ring in the new decade, sit yourself down for a locally inspired three-course dinner, smack dab in the center of downtown. The Pre-Party Prix Fixe menu at Taste begins with an amuse bouche, a Quillisascut chevre tart with pears ... More >>

Pre-Party Prix Fixe at Taste

credit: farm3.static.flickr.com/2350/2155622662_882f1acf2c.jpg​To ring in the new decade, sit yourself down for a locally inspired three-course dinner, smack dab in the center of downtown. The Pre-Party Prix Fixe menu at Taste begins with an amuse bouche, a Quillisascut chevre tart with pears ... More >>

Comment of the Day: South Carolina Schadenfreude

FlickrIt doesn't get much worse than taking crap from a state that proudly calls itself home to the cocks.​Reader Lowcountry Native responds to Attention, Boeing Protectionists: Charleston Not Entirely Overrun By Racist Rubes. He earns points for making his mockery concise and legible, unlike ... More >>

Tonight: A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Satyricon, Stefon Harris and Blackout

Adam FaradayA Hawk and a Hacksaw​A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Damon & Naomi at Tractor Tavern, 9 p.m. $13 The man behind the drum kit on Neutral Milk Hotel's famed In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Jeremy Barnes is now half of the core duo behind New Mexico's idiosyncratic A Hawk And A Hacksaw. True to ... More >>

Stefon Harris and Blackout

Adam FaradayA Hawk and a Hacksaw​A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Damon & Naomi at Tractor Tavern, 9 p.m. $13 The man behind the drum kit on Neutral Milk Hotel's famed In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Jeremy Barnes is now half of the core duo behind New Mexico's idiosyncratic A Hawk And A Hacksaw. True to ... More >>

This Week: Entertain Yourself and the Kids with Recess Monkey

Recess MonkeyIf the kids are driving you crazy (or the neighbor's kids are driving you crazy) a Recess Monkey performance is the perfect place to let them dance and sing till they fall over. Recess Monkey is a group of three elementary school teachers who have creatively spun lyrics about marshmall ... More >>

Dino Wine-Oh

Recess MonkeyIf the kids are driving you crazy (or the neighbor's kids are driving you crazy) a Recess Monkey performance is the perfect place to let them dance and sing till they fall over. Recess Monkey is a group of three elementary school teachers who have creatively spun lyrics about marshmall ... More >>

Feeding the Frenzy

Just got turned onto a new, locally produced and targeted blog dubbed Feeding the Frenzy. Think of it as Seattle's answer to XLR8R, or an electronica-centric version of Rain Drop Hustla. The bloggers offer a panoramic snapshot of local parties, up-and-coming DJs, and little-labels-that-can, plus fre ... More >>

Wu-Tang Clan

Just got turned onto a new, locally produced and targeted blog dubbed Feeding the Frenzy. Think of it as Seattle's answer to XLR8R, or an electronica-centric version of Rain Drop Hustla. The bloggers offer a panoramic snapshot of local parties, up-and-coming DJs, and little-labels-that-can, plus fre ... More >>

Ingrid Michaelson

Monday, November 10

Enter the New Wu-Tang

Quieter, spiritual, and all grown up.

Chick Corea

Xenu Commands You. . . to not miss these masterful jazzists

Meat and Monkeys

The new sculpture park's front row is occupied by a pair of unlikely (and uninterested) neighbors.

Behind the Scene

Death of the Party's Clayton Vomero

The Parlor

Put yourself in the mood for impulse shopping at this Lincoln Square pool hall/lounge.

Yakima Strikes Back

Put yourself in the mood for impulse shopping at this Lincoln Square pool hall/lounge.

Where Cabbies Eat

If there's a line of taxis out front, you can bet the food is good.

Chris Terrio

The director of Heights.

Chasing the Taste

Road testing West Coast vodka against Old Country competition.

The High Notes

Remembering a year of classical triumphs.

Grape News

Remembering a year of classical triumphs.

Performance Picks

Remembering a year of classical triumphs.

Bum Rap

The Supreme Court says I can legally have anal sex in Texas now, and I'm just elated.

Grapeland!

Silver Lake Winery.

Side Dish

I Scream

Days of our nights

I Scream

CD Reviews

I Scream

"The truth is that the journalism, and the commitment to quality, has never been more 'real.'"

I Scream

Gored and bushwhacked

Reflections on America from behind the wheel on a 10-day, 7,500-mile road trip.

Craftsman charm

Finding a fresh start in an old fixer-upper.

Smokin' out with the Wu; Novoselic does Nirvana

Finding a fresh start in an old fixer-upper.

Classical music, 1999

Finding a fresh start in an old fixer-upper.

Option envy

How do you cope with watching all your friends get rich?

Oh, say, can you hear . . . ?

American music is celebrated in a week's worth of concerts.