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Helladope
Riding smoothly atop spacey and soulful instrumentals, Helladopes funk-laden, Southern rap-influenced sound is the result of the South…
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Steve Earle
Steve Earle may be many things, but he is definitely not subtle. As a songwriter and performer, Earle…
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Hail the Conquering Hero
Boy, is this film ripe for a remake. In Hail the Conquering Hero, Preston Sturges sends up the…
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City Hall
WaitBumbershoot wasnt always on Labor Day Weekend? Thats one of the small surprises to the poster exhibition Umbrella…
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No-Fi Soul Rebellion
Bellingham husband-and-wife band No-Fi Soul Rebellion’s playfully bizarre dance pop is the perfect union of big, thumping booty…
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Lilith Fair
When Sarah McLachlan announced shed be relaunching the Lilith Fair after a decade-long hiatus with a lineup 10…
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Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands
Among grunge aficionados, Mark Pickerel is best known as the founding drummer of Screaming Trees. (He played with…
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Deerhoof
Deerhoof hasnt had an album out since 2008s Offend Maggie, but their near-legendary status among the indie kids…
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Urban Craft Uprising
Seattle is a city of whimsy. Concrete trolls guard our bridges. We build museums in the shape of…
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BOAT
Everything you need to know about BOAT can be summed up by one of their most charming songs,…
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The Desperate Hours
From 1955, William Wyler’s drama was based on a play, and the setting shows it–basically one suburban house…
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Sleepy Sun
While Sleepy Sun’s first release, Embrace, takes a revivalist approach to psychedelia, the San Francisco outfit’s latest effort,…
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The Wailers
No name is as synonymous with the reggae genre than Bob Marley and no band is as closely…
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Summer in the Park
Most of the art in the Olympic Sculpture Park tends toward the metal, massive, and permanent. So were…
Music
The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Steve Earle / Wednesday, June 30 Steve Earle may be many things, but he is definitely not subtle.…
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The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
WEDNESDAY 6/30 Film/Music: Setting His Own Tempo Determinedly obscure, the amorphous Nashville band known as Lambchop rarely plays…
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South Park Bridge
Today, who has strong feelings about the old West Seattle Bridge, destroyed by an errant freighter in 1978?…
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Seattle International Beerfest
During an ordinary July, the Seattle International Beerfest arrives like a cool oasis in the scorching heat. This…
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The City of Lost Children
This futuristic 1995 phantasmagoria is a gorgeous amalgam of 19th- and 20th-century fantasy. A mad scientist, Krank (Daniel…
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Bret Easton Ellis
It’s been more than two decades since Less Than Zero branded Ellis part of the Literary Brat Pack…