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Bus-Window Openers: Heroes or Dastards?
Dear Uptight Seattleite, One of the moms in my moms group invited me and Aiden to Japanese storytelling…
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Bass Drum of Death
If you like tawdry combinations of raw sexual energy and cheeky, off the meter smarts, meet your sweet…
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Holiday Shores
Suddenly and out of nowhere, a whole generation of young bands is looking towards the beach for inspiration.…
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These United States
Its been a good handful of years for honest-to-goodness American rock music. Among the many bands who have…
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Laura Musselman
After several years of traveling around her native Midwest in pursuit of Northwest bands like The Long Winters…
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The Raveonettes
It is a rare feat for a band to simultaneously play homage to their influences, sound current and…
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Jack Nisbet
After Lewis and Clark, but before the British were driven north of the 49th Parallel, Scottish naturalist David…
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The Mountain Goats
Mountain Goats mainstay John Darnielle has a recurring, if uneasy, relationship with Christianity. After the death and illness…
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Lydia Davis
Like Don DeLillo, Lydia Davis is as much sculptor as writer. I put that word on the page,…
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
From 1989, Steven Spielbergs third leg of the Indiana Jones trilogy doesnt quite match the first, but the…
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U-District Jazz Walk
Over the past year, David Pierre-Lewis has managed to achieve what few club owners even attempt: Hes gotten…
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Ken Auletta
“I just fell in love with Larry and Sergey,” Jeff Bezos tells Auletta in an interview for his…
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Odd Man Out
James Mason is unforgettable as a doomed fugitive IRA gunman in Carol Reed’s extraordinary and eccentric 1947 film.…
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Verellen Amp Night
Verellen amps are the custom-built, low-end loving beauties designed and manufactured locally by Helms Alee frontman Ben Verellen.…
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Dirty Projectors
The New York trio (which adds two members when touring) is as easy to love as Animal Collective…
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Jim McManus
In May 2000, in a convergence that in a novel would seem eye-rollingly contrived, that years World Series…
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Headlights
Ethereal and deeply emotional, Headlights new album Wildlife is not so much a departure for the band as…
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Le Combat Dans Lîle
Alain Cavaliers 1962 Le Combat Dans Lîle isnt a lost masterpieceits too unstable for thatbut its fascinatingly nervy.…
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Devo
When Devo was at its peak nearly 30 years ago, founding members Gerry Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh sublimated…
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Bishop Allen
Justin Rice and Christian Rudder of Brooklyns Bishop Allen both moonlight as actors in their spare time …