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Next to Normal
Theres nothing conventional about the musical Next to Normal, or the bus-and-truck tour featuring its original Tony Award-winning…
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Cahalen Morrison & Eli West
It’s really, really en vogue for Seattle bands to incorporate undertones of Appalachian folk into their sound right…
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Fergus & Geronimo
Back in October, the Brooklyn dudes in Fergus & Geronimo sprinkled a bunch of garage, a bit of…
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SXSW Kick-Off Party
Last year was local rapper D. Blacks first trip to SXSW. Being a religious man (Orthodox Judaism), one…
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Crystal Castles
Alice Glass of Crystal Castles is a riot girl in a literal sense of the words. She thrashes…
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DeVotchKa
DeVotchKa went from being Dita von Teeses burlesque backing band to the Billboard-charting, most-popular-gypsy-rock-band-in-America that they are today…
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Earth
So heres a strange symmetry: Dylan Carlsons Earth began life 20 years ago as a sludgy, epically slow-riffing…
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Mother in Another Language
ReAct Theatre and producing partner Pratidhwani strike a gusher with Taniya Hossains delightful parlor comedy about a young…
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North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcocks wonderful 1959 chase movie is one of his absolute best, an espionage romp for the ages.…
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Eric Eley
Down on the Duwamish during World War II, an entire Boeing plant was disguised with trees and houses…
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Compagnie la Baraka
The notion that the French are more chic than you or I may be a cliché, but it…
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Humaira Abid
We send Predator drones and CIA hitmen, they send artists in return. Thats one way of looking at…
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Tom Arnold
Its a luxury and a curse, says Tom Arnold of his famous name, forever associated with his rocky…
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
He is tall, skinny, earnest. His ears might stick out too much. Hes not a Washington insider. But…
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Hellogoodbye
Four and a half years removed from their sappy 2006 electropop hit Here (In Your Arms), Hellogoodbye has…
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The Concretes
Its always been a group effort for Swedish popsters The Concretes. They’re eight members deep, and despite the…
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Waka Flocka Flame
Waka Flocka Flame isnt a good rapper by anyones account, not even his ownthe Atlanta MC has flat…
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Great Expectations
Decades before Freud, Charles Dickens had a keen psychological insight: A wounded psyche will seek relief by inflicting…
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Morcheeba
In the mid-90s, trip hop was getting trendy via smooth electronic bands like Massive Attack and Portishead, and…
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Star Slinger
Manchester producer Star Slinger debuted with Elisabeth Frasier, a track which radically reworked Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las…