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Cake
With a mere glimpse at the crowd gathered at a Cake show, it would be pretty easy to…
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Ripynt
Few rappers are willing to expose their struggle to the degree of chronicling the pawnshop where they work…
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Casablanca
We all know the story of this 1942 Michael Curtiz perennial: a classic love triangle set against the…
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Busdriver
Though his lone bit of mainstream cred came from a feature on the Tony Hawks Underground video game…
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Secret Colors
Matt Lawsons Secret Colors is a psychedelic swirl of washed-out samples, keys, and guitar; its music that allows…
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Herman’s Hermits
When I was in high school, Hermans Hermits came and played the University Place summer festival in my…
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Sebadoh
While 1996s Harmacy is a perfectly serviceable slice of melancholic pop, the record that preceded it was Sebadohs…
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Sports
Its been two years since Canadian trio Sports released their self-titled debut EP, a record that showed off…
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Sweethearts Serenade
If your ideal Valentine’s Day weekend involves holdin’ your baby to a bluegrass sway or finding a proper…
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How I Learned to Drive
During the ’60s and ’70s, Li’l Bit’s family bestowed nicknames corresponding to genitalia, such as “Li’l Bit” and…
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My Wonderful Day
In Alan Ayckbourns 2009 comedy (his 73rd play!), nine-year-old Winnie (the convincingly young-looking 20-year-old NTasha Anders) accompanies her…
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3 Screams
For its inaugural performance, Seattles newest theater company, Man Alone Productions, has done the honorable deed of producing…
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jim Carrey plays Joel, an office-worker drone so stifled by his routine that the last two years of…
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Wavelength
From 1967, Canadian avant garde filmmaker Michael Snow’s single-shot movie runs 45 minutes in length. Wavelength consists of…
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Jack Hamann
In the summer of 1944, African-American soldiers staged a nighttime attack on a cadre of Italian prisoners of…
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Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
Not a composer, but an inventor of genius was Arnold Schoenbergs description of John Cage, and the phrase…
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Hood to Coast
For exercise nerds, after a good workout, there is nothing better than talking about that workout. Or after…
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Moulin Rouge
Baz Luhrmanns flamboyant, cartoonish, often headache-inducing Moulin Rouge (2001) has maybe a thousand musical cues that trigger samples,…
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Persepolis
A small landmark in feature animation, Persepolis (2008) is based on the comic-book memoirs of Marjane Satrapi. We…
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Steve Davis
The town of American Falls, Idaho, where photographer Steve Davis grew up, is a long drive east of…