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MTV Total Request Live Night
Before Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, the pop charts were ruled by what seemed an endless line of…
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Strip, Strip Hooray!
Step right up, gents, for a little naughty entertainment! Ogle to your heart’s content at pretty girls swaying…
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La Danse! Le Burlesque! LEdition Française!
From French kissing to French-cut panties, we like to think that anything French is just a little naughty,…
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Steve Earle
Steve Earle knows a thing or two about addiction, and hes never hesitant to share what hes been…
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Seattle International Film Festival
Having crept upward from two weeks at the Moore to almost four weeks at a dozen-plus regional venues,…
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Page One: Inside The New York Times
In rooms decorated with Pulitzers of the past and a giant poster of Orson Welles as Citizen Kane,…
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Lauryn Hill
Following the commercial and critical success of her debut album, 1998’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the singer…
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Naughty By Nature
Few hip-hop acts from the early 90s had greater success crossing over from the hood to the burbs…
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KEXP Hood to Hood
Community involvementfrom a focus on local music to those slightly annoying (though vitally important) on-air fundraising drivesis a…
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The Globes
Much is made of the Globes youth, but only because it makes the bands songwriting abilities, instrumental proficiency…
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Pure Ecstasy
The Austin trio Pure Ecstasy makes music that matches their nameits swooning, its heavy on the reverb; its…
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Princess
Seattle metal outfit Princess music is that of brutal, carnivorous, auditory assault. They already sound like the after-party…
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Bucky Pizzarelli Trio
When we talk about guitar heroes, the name Bucky Pizzarelli is seldom mentioned. Hes not a fiery soloist…
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Kathryn Calder
New Pornographer Kathryn Calder released her solo debut album, Are You My Mother?, nearly a year ago, but…
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Whalebones
If you havent seen Whalebones in a while, do so. They were great before, but after a few…
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The Twilight Singers
While none of Greg Dullis post-Afghan Whigs endeavors have gotten as much attention as that early 90s act,…
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Jimmy Eat World
While the heyday of emotive, melodic indie pop has seemingly peaked (seriously, how many more reunion tours of…
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STAG
Keith Bartoloni is a bartender at Hazlewood, Ballard’s smallest and most alluring cocktail bar (and it’s not just…
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Dog Day Afternoon
Based on a real incident that occurred in 1972, Sidney Lumet’s 1975 Dog Day Afternoon is a hilarious,…
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I Am Secretly an Important Man
You worry about a guy who worshipped William S. Burroughs, and Steven Jesse Bernstein clearly made his friends…