Site Logo
Whalebones

Arts & Culture

Whalebones

Retro psych-rock band Whalebones hasn’t played a single show since Sasquatch ’08, much to the dismay of the…

Country Joe

Arts & Culture

Country Joe

Country Joe McDonald – that hairy dude in the Woodstock documentary who leads the infamous F-U-C-K chant –…

Seattle Helping Haiti

Arts & Culture

Seattle Helping Haiti

Every time the subject of MxPx comes up, I tell the same story: My freshman year roommate at…

Elton John and Billy Joel

Arts & Culture

Elton John and Billy Joel

Elton John hasn’t written anything worth shit since the ’70s, and Billy Joel’s once-stellar career careened into homeless-man’s-Springsteen-on-the-ivories…

Kool Keith

Arts & Culture

Kool Keith

Dismaying as it may be, America still prefers its black entertainers to be goofy and depraved. The elephant…

Prefuse 73

Arts & Culture

Prefuse 73

The notion of Scott Herren – a.k.a. Prefuse 73 – bringing along a live band for a performance…

Kids & Animals

Arts & Culture

Kids & Animals

If all of the songs on the Seattle band’s self-titled debut EP sound familiar, there’s good reason: Kids…

The Ax

Arts & Culture

The Ax

It can’t be easy to be a band sharing a bill with hard and heavy Portland duo the…

They Live!

Arts & Culture

They Live!

Rowdy rap meets rock cacophony at this show, which is They Live!’s very last before changing their moniker…

Train Man

Arts & Culture

Train Man

In Train Man, a nation of lonely hearts is connected by e-mail, IM, and SMS, making the 2005…

Nomo

Arts & Culture

Nomo

Though Afrobeat has spawned a new generation of bands here in the United States, the overwhelming majority of…

DJ Krush

Arts & Culture

DJ Krush

Japan’s founding father of instrumental hip-hop, DJ Krush, has lost none of his serene prowess since the mid-’80s.…

Tower of Power

Arts & Culture

Tower of Power

It makes perfect sense to assume that any band that’s been around for over 40 years is past…

Zoe Muth

Arts & Culture

Zoe Muth

Though Zoe Muth’s debut album is nothing less than superb, even unabashed superfans like me must admit that…

Akira Kurosawa Retrospective

Arts & Culture

Akira Kurosawa Retrospective

SIFF’s Akira Kurosawa retrospective begins with his classic 1949 film noir Stray Dog. Toshiro Mifune plays a naive…

The famous Stahl House (aka Case Study House No. 22) in Visual Acoustics.

Arts & Culture

The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events

WEDNESDAY 1/27 Books: The Boys of Late Summer Some of us who played Little League baseball still cringe…

Bad Vibes

News

Bad Vibes

Dear Dategirl, I am in the middle of a long dating drought, yet I have certain needs. Being…

Kronos Quartet

Arts & Culture

Kronos Quartet

One of contemporary music’s favorite legends—right up there with Philip Glass driving a cab for a living while…

Introducing

Arts & Culture

Introducing

While the UW is renowned for its medical research and law school, this display of work from first-year…

Kathy Griffin

Arts & Culture

Kathy Griffin

Kathy Griffin performed four consecutive stand-up shows at the Paramount the last time she was in Seattle—all of…