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Dead Man’s Party

“Do you play disco?” This is not a question one typically expects to hear from a massage therapist.…

The first lady of country music returns to her roots.

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Still country

After all these years: Loretta Lynn.

Brad Pitt in see-through shorts! Run!

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Going the Distance

Me and my big mouth. One minute, I’m contentedly digesting Thanksgiving dinner, and the next, I’m running laps…

Superdrag: Putting back the feeling into pop songwriting.

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Songwriting With Superdrag

SUPERDRAG DEATHRAY DAVIES, THE LASHES Crocodile Cafe, 441-5611, $8 9 p.m. Tues., Aug. 13 Some cretin once said…

Get a job

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Get a job

A chattering voice pierces my slumber. Consciousness comes over me like a cat that’s left a half-chewed mouse…

The Donnas: R, C, F, and A.

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Barely legal

Now 21, the Donnas keep fighting stereotypes in the manly world of rock.

You are here

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You are here

I am not a resourceful person, not the type of guy who can repair a car engine with…

Here's a story you're gonna love, Kurt.

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Inside Donny Osmond

The public loves it when squeaky-clean celebrities reveal their naughty sides— remember the flap after Julie Andrews flashed…

The amazing Constantines (clockwise from top left): Steve Lambke, Bry Webb, Dallas Wehrle, Doug MacGregor.

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How to love your job

The Constantines make being in the music biz worthwhile.

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Small pleasures

I hate my life and I want to die. And that’s not the worst part. What truly sucks…

Extra-Ordinary haircut—the suicidal coif.

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Little boy blue

One fateful afternoon when I was 10, I shuffled into the kitchen. Jodie Foster had just been on…

They see you, baby

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They see you, baby

Groove Armada's Andy Cato speaks out on Britney, playing live, and shakin' that a—.

More beats and falling leaves

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More beats and falling leaves

Here’s a challenge to Seattle songwriters: Would somebody please pen a tune about the arrival of fall in…

Great Scott

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Great Scott

I AM NOT A romantic individual. My boyfriend e-mailed me a love note the other day, and I…

Fork it over: It's a lover's symphony waiting to happen!

Eat Drink Toke

Do you fondue?

The skinny on dipping.

Unsung musical hero James Talley with his father in Richland, Wash.

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James Talley vs. Bob Dylan

If I followed up on every unsolicited pitch about an unknown musician that I receive, this column would…

Irving Berlin wrote an ideal pop song in "God Bless America."

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Some Slight Solace

Pop music is my constant companion. It has seen me through my happiest moments and my worst crises.…

Bad Girls

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Bad Girls

I missed my true calling, and the error all boils down to missing one lousy Y chromosome and…

Caglar Singletary: author of the eternal song poem classic "Nonviolent Taekwando Troopers."

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Chart Attack

AS A YOUNGSTER, I read comic books voraciously. And although I dismissed the advertisements hawking X-ray glasses and…

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It takes a thief

“If you want me to be a human jukebox, I’ll bend over, and you can take a quarter,…