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Dracula

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Dracula

People remember that Orson Welles and company panicked unsuspecting listeners in October 1938 with a radio vérité treatment…

Cat Power

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Cat Power

Cat Power hasn’t released anything new since 2008’s Dark End of the Street covers EP, her last record…

Mary McIntyre

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Mary McIntyre

In her show Birds and Booze, the figurative painter celebrates louche, lounging, beer-drinking women. A bartender at the…

Nascent

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Nascent

Hot glue is just inherently nasty—the stuff of craft-making burns and unscheduled visits to the ER. Only when…

Gogol Bordello

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Gogol Bordello

It’s nearly impossible to listen to Gogol Bordello without thinking of Eugene Hütz’ hilarious character in Everything is…

Matt Costa

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Matt Costa

In contrast to his previous career moves – such as signing to fellow laidback singer-songwriter Jack Johnson’s label…

Curtis Erlinger

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Curtis Erlinger

In his new show Rendered Invisible, the local artist transforms old family photos (and other sources) into meticulous…

Foals

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Foals

As a follow-up to their mathy 2008 debut, Antidotes, Oxford’s Foals released an album oddly infused with elements…

Poltergeist

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Poltergeist

“They’re baa-aaack.” Nobody wants troublesome spirits back once they’ve been exorcised, but I’m all for a revival of…

Eastern Grip

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Eastern Grip

Just because a band has good taste in influences is hardly a reliable indicator that they’ve digested them…

Golden Blondes

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Golden Blondes

Joseph P. Markiewicz (ex-Lillydale) is a true Renaissance man, but one blessedly free of the clichéd tones of…

Mumford & Sons

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Mumford & Sons

Even if you’ve reached the point of audio exhaustion with Mumford & Sons’ colossal earworm “Little Lion Man”…

Arts & Culture

Lady Antebellum

Kid Rock described Lady Antebellum as a “hillbilly Fleetwood Mac, except I suspect they don’t do drugs or…

The Apples in Stereo

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The Apples in Stereo

As founder of the Elephant 6 Collective, Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider was one of the centerpieces…

Behind the Scenes: The Real Story of Quileute Wolves

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Behind the Scenes: The Real Story of Quileute Wolves

Team Edward, team Jacob, team history? The Quileute Tribe of our Olympic Peninsula was thrust into the limelight,…

Head Like A Kite

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Head Like A Kite

Head Like A Kite’s already made a name for itself in Seattle as a solid purveyor of fun…

Lisa Birnbach

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Lisa Birnbach

To those who came of age in the early ’80s, The Official Preppy Handbook was an unlikely yet…

Blitzen Trapper

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Blitzen Trapper

Blitzen Trapper’s newest record, Destroyer of the Void, is a challenging record from the second the needle hits…

Vampyr

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Vampyr

Uncanny in its discontinuities, a movie dedicated to working against all generic expectation, Carl Theodore Dreyer’s vision of…

Blue Scholars

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Blue Scholars

As far as Seattle hip-hop is concerned, headlining the Paramount has been tantamount to outer space or the…