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Whalebones
Retro psych-rock band Whalebones hasn’t played a single show since Sasquatch ’08, much to the dismay of the…
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Country Joe
Country Joe McDonald that hairy dude in the Woodstock documentary who leads the infamous F-U-C-K chant …
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Seattle Helping Haiti
Every time the subject of MxPx comes up, I tell the same story: My freshman year roommate at…
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Elton John and Billy Joel
Elton John hasnt written anything worth shit since the 70s, and Billy Joels once-stellar career careened into homeless-mans-Springsteen-on-the-ivories…
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Kool Keith
Dismaying as it may be, America still prefers its black entertainers to be goofy and depraved. The elephant…
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Prefuse 73
The notion of Scott Herren a.k.a. Prefuse 73 bringing along a live band for a performance…
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Kids & Animals
If all of the songs on the Seattle band’s self-titled debut EP sound familiar, there’s good reason: Kids…
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The Ax
It cant be easy to be a band sharing a bill with hard and heavy Portland duo the…
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They Live!
Rowdy rap meets rock cacophony at this show, which is They Live!’s very last before changing their moniker…
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Train Man
In Train Man, a nation of lonely hearts is connected by e-mail, IM, and SMS, making the 2005…
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Nomo
Though Afrobeat has spawned a new generation of bands here in the United States, the overwhelming majority of…
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DJ Krush
Japans founding father of instrumental hip-hop, DJ Krush, has lost none of his serene prowess since the mid-80s.…
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Tower of Power
It makes perfect sense to assume that any band thats been around for over 40 years is past…
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Zoe Muth
Though Zoe Muths debut album is nothing less than superb, even unabashed superfans like me must admit that…
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Akira Kurosawa Retrospective
SIFFs Akira Kurosawa retrospective begins with his classic 1949 film noir Stray Dog. Toshiro Mifune plays a naive…
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Bad Vibes
Dear Dategirl, I am in the middle of a long dating drought, yet I have certain needs. Being…
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Kronos Quartet
One of contemporary music’s favorite legendsright up there with Philip Glass driving a cab for a living while…
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Introducing
While the UW is renowned for its medical research and law school, this display of work from first-year…
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Kathy Griffin
Kathy Griffin performed four consecutive stand-up shows at the Paramount the last time she was in Seattleall of…