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Jaguar Love

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Jaguar Love

Wrought from the ashes of the Blood Brothers by Cody Votolato and Johnny Whitney, Jaguar Love first employed…

Vince Mira

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Vince Mira

By the time teen twanger Vince Mira is of legal voting age, he will have recorded with the…

Wings of Desire

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Wings of Desire

The Berlin Wall came down a year after Wings of Desire opened in Seattle, when our Roger Downey…

Langdon Cook

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Langdon Cook

In a region full of mushroom hunters, public-park fruit scavengers, and clam diggers, Langdon Cook is a forager’s…

Apple Cup

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Apple Cup

In spite of a dramatic, early-season victory over then-highly-ranked USC, the UW Huskies are 3-7, ninth in the…

The First Lady of Rockabilly shows us how it’s done.

Music

The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

Greg Ashley ~ Wednesday, November 25 As album titles go, Greg Ashley’s Medicine Fuck Dream (2003) is about…

Japandroids

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Japandroids

If playing drunken house shows were a lucrative enterprise, Vancouver duo Japandroids would quickly corner the market. Unfortunately,…

Bad Santa

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Bad Santa

Working from a story by the Coen brothers, director Terry Zwigoff’s 2003 film is calculated to affront anyone…

House

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House

Cult movies should be mistakes, not intentional. In his 1977 feature debut, there’s no indication that Nobuhiko Obayahshi…

The Lonely Forest

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The Lonely Forest

If the Lonely Forest accomplishes nothing else with sophomore release We Sing The Body Electric!, vocalist and songwriter…

Richard Price

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Richard Price

For Seattle fans of HBO’s brilliant crime series The Wire, a tutorial from writer Richard Price is like…

A Christmas Carol

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A Christmas Carol

ACT launched a new production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in 1976, coincidentally the founding year of…

Wanda Jackson

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Wanda Jackson

The recent news that country/rockabilly icon Wanda Jackson was going to be working with Jack White on her…

The Nutcracker

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The Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky was not enthusiastic about his commission to write music for Nutcracker; which Pacific Northwest Ballet is staging…

Greg Ashley

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Greg Ashley

As far as album titles go, Greg Ashley’s Medicine Fuck Dream from 2003 is about as symbiotic with…

Simian Mobile Disco

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Simian Mobile Disco

James Ford and Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco, the most vaunted British DJ extraordinaire this side of…

Cold Cave

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Cold Cave

Philadelphia singer/musician (and poet, and owner of the independent publishing company Heartworm Press) Wes Eisold used to be…

D.R.I.

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D.R.I.

Sure, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles haven’t played in five years and haven’t put out a proper studio album in…

Judith Owen and Harry Shearer

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Judith Owen and Harry Shearer

Like a lot of people, my opinion of the holiday season teeters between fondness and revulsion. Bob Dylan’s…

SEATTLE PEOPLE—PICS AND CONVERSATION: “(Leonard Cohen) just brings some old feelings back to me when he talks about passion, about women, about life, that I had forgotten about.” —Ralph Portillo, seen at Solo Bar.

Music

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Schoolyard Heroes, Kane Hodder Calling It Quits  Two of the biggest all-ages draws in town will reunite with…