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Gillian G. Gaar

Alice in Chains: the other Seattle sound.

Music

Alice in Chains’ Homecoming

Sold-out shows and another Grammy nomination later, can grunge’s fourth major band finally get some respect?

In 1989, Nirvana couldn’t even brag about being the lamest band in town. From left to right: Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, and Chad Channing.

Music

Bleach Signaled Chaos Around the Corner

Nirvana's debut could have been the band's swan song. Instead it was the start of the sound that…

Up-ing the Ante

Music

Up-ing the Ante

The return of the killer Slits.

The De-Evolution Will Not Be Televised

Music

The De-Evolution Will Not Be Televised

Devo can safely say, 'We told you so!'

The art of revival

Arts & Culture

The art of revival

Appropriating the past with designer Art Chantry.

Music

Meditations on Sleater-Kinney

It was in early 1996 that I first saw Sleater-Kinney, as an opening act at CoCA. I was…

Rosies lover?

News

For Crying ‘Out’ Loud

Closet politics inform the popular campaign against Hillary Clinton.

Queer, she wrote

Arts & Culture

Queer, she wrote

The woman who turned lesbian desire into pulp fiction.

Steven Jesse Bernstein in 1987: not just a peddler of the profane.

Music

Blunt Instrument

A new EMP exhibit revives the angry pre-slam poet who helped invent Seattle culture.