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Project 3

Seattle Dance Project‘s spring show looks like one of those big family gatherings where your parents and cousins…

Gustafer Yellowgold

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Gustafer Yellowgold

Gustafer Yellowgold is yellow and animated, but the comparisons to Spongebob stop there. Gustafer is an alien visitor…

Phoenix

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Phoenix

Even as the dust is settling around everyone’s Best Of 2009 lists, our favorite French rock stars Phoenix…

Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody

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Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody

Shoegaze bands can sometimes approach a standstill, dousing any momentum with noodling and effects. Not Swervedriver, who plowed…

Movits!

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Movits!

One of the more unlikely groups to ever drum up a cult following in the States, Movits! hail…

Matt Haimovitz

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Matt Haimovitz

Country, hip-hop, metal—cobblers in certain genres pretty much stick to their lasts and aren’t known for exploring music…

Pure Prairie League

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Pure Prairie League

There’s a good reason why the first two Pure Prairie League albums aren’t mentioned alongside country-rock standards like…

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Visual Acoustics

Just about everyone in Eric Bricker’s documentary seems to love Julius Shulman, including (adorably) the unstoppable old gent…

Garbage Dreams

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Garbage Dreams

Adham wants to get married. He’s only 17, but that hardly seems to matter. He needs a wife.…

Julie Doiron

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Julie Doiron

With her 2009 release, I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day, Julie Doiron continues the sonic…

Supervillains

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Supervillains

Orlando-based ska-funk act the Supervillains certainly aren’t on a mission to raise any IQ points any time soon;…

Fruit Bats

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Fruit Bats

Multi-instrumentalist Eric Johnson may have spent the past few years moonlighting as a member of the Shins, but…

Brokeback Mountain

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Brokeback Mountain

Though it reaches from 1963 into the 1980s, Ang Lee’s magnificent 2005 film is about people who live…

Charles LeWarne

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Charles LeWarne

It’s a sign of how long you’ve lived in Seattle, or when you were a child here, as…

Planet of the Apes

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Planet of the Apes

“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” Need we say more about our favorite post-apocalyptic…

Ghostbusters

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Ghostbusters

Who you gonna call? I think we all know the answer: the top grossing film of 1984, Ghostbusters!…

Big Trouble in Little China

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Big Trouble in Little China

John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China (1986) is an enjoyable mash-up of classic Westerns, Saturday-morning serials, and…

Movits!’ hip-hop-swing only sounds weird on paper, we swear.

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The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

Fruit Bats ~ Friday, January 22 Multi-instrumentalist Eric Johnson may have spent the past few years moonlighting as…

Narrows

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Narrows

Considering Botch’s esteemed place in the hardcore canon, it’s surprising that frontman Dave Verellen’s subsequent project, Narrows, hasn’t…

Jesse Katz

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Jesse Katz

Some of us who played little league baseball still cringe at the memory of taunting parents, chin-tickling fastballs,…