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Blood Red Shoes
Please dont hold the fact that Brighton, England power duo Blood Red Shoes are impossibly sexy against them.…
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Deadmau5
These days, every dude with a laptop and a set of turntables refers to himself as a DJ.…
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Bilal
As a member of artist collective the Soulquarians, founded by the likes of ?uestlove and J Dilla, Bilal…
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Everclear
If you attended a suburban high school sometime in the late 90s, and you weren’t exactly sure if…
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M.I.A.
M.I.A. is probably the only artist on the planet who can get away with using the phrase “rub-a-dubby-dubby-dub”…
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Grieves & Budo
In 2003, Ben Laub was new to Seattle. So what did he do? Cloistered himself in an apartment…
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Superchunk
Bands naturally have a shelf life of creative output. Thankfully, there are those weird anomalies (like Twinkies) that…
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Holy Fuck
With a moniker this bursting with astonishment, one better deliver the goods, and blessedly, Holy Fuck most definitely…
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Kelley Stoltz
Against an indie-rock landscape pock-marked with sad bastards crying into their beers (and beards), San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Kelley…
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The Murder City Devils
Has it really been 13 years since Spencer Moody and his band of organ-wielding, body-thrashing garage punks released…
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STRFKR
No official announcements been made, but it appears that Portlands Starfucker is now going by STRFKR. At this…
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Jamie Ford
Novelist Jamie Fordhis great-grandfather changed the family surname from Chunggrew up here in Chinatown, though he now resides…
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Repercussions: Tides & Time
Pretty pictures of mountain ranges are a dime a dozen in the Northwest. Even amateurs carry professional-quality DSLRs…
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Implied Violence
The local arts collective, known for feats of marathon performance, launches a new show at the Frye with…
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Passages
The government auctioned off the old federal INS Building just in time for the recession. Then the new…
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Dinaw Mengestu
How to Read the Air (Riverhead, $25.95) comprises two road trips 30 years apart. The first is that…
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Chamber Dance Company
Most of what we know about the Bauhaus are the streamlined consumer designs and austerely functional architecture, but…
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Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture
Though it certainly contains many photos, by a dozen emerging artists, Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture,…
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Charles Peterson
The vivid black-and-white photos of Charles Peterson are now synonymous with grunge, since he documented every important local…
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Lieutenant of Inishmore revels in a kind of gleeful pop mayhem that results in relentlesssome might say…