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The Metro Gnome
(Gnome gnote: Due to Labor Day, a ridiculous holiday in a country where laborers are about as valued…
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The heart of rock and roll has stopped beating.
Like any respectable hack columnist, the Gnome started the new year with a host of resolutions, but these…
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Wannabe hotty talks trash.
The Gnome opens his mail this week, and guess what he finds? The second issue of Hotty magazine,…
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Coldplay parachute into Seattle.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled music column for a concert review. The Metro Gnome will return next week.…
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A report from SXSW; Hi*Score lives!
The Gnome detests flying, so I done burrowed all the way down to Austin for South by Southwest…
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Memories of ’99
When the year’s about to end, the Gnome becomes downright sentimental, weepy even. Hell, even thinking about last…
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The Metro Gnome
The Gnome expects injustice every now and again, but last week brought several blatant miscues that fouled your…
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Mudhoney at the Off Ramp, OutKast, Quasi, ATDI/MCD antics, whew!
Some of you must be salivating over the thought of seeing Mudhoney at Graceland this Saturday, hoping to…
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He’s out there: the debut of our diminutive local music columnist
Bow down to the Gnome Hey, listen up! The Northwest music scene’s moving faster than a Canadian speed…
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The rave that wasn’t.
I’ve gotta get something off my chest, dear readers. I’m guilty. It’s true. But I was panicking—the guy…
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Never Mind Mark Lindquist; Lifter Puller live.
Normally, the Gnome wouldn’t resort to the columnist’s lazy-ass tactic of answering reader mail in lieu of reporting…
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Newsweek’s Napster; Failure guy’s success.
Y’know, the Gnome prefers to leave media criticism to Inside.com, Brill’s Content, and maybe Howard Kurtz (though definitely…
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The Metro Gnome
As if the first week of the new year weren’t tedious enough, religious yahoos saw fit to protest…
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Club hopping in a Chrysler
The Gnome would like to start by thanking new sponsor Chrysler for the use of an old-fashioned-y PT…
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The Metro Gnome
The Gnome’s gettin’ a tattoo of a wristband so he can sneak into all the friggin’ festivals that…
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Weird Al turns Flagpole Sitta
There are few things the Gnome likes better than a good medley. Which is why he lunged when…
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This town was nothin’ but a ghost town.
Kudos to whoever called in a request for the Specials‘ “Ghost Town” during the WTO fiasco last week,…
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Sold-out shows and the Waterboys.
Seeing how everyone in town was either at the sold-out Sit & Spin, the sold-out Showbox, or the…
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Loosegroove gets stuck in rut; oh Goodness.
The Gnome may have his head in the ground, but that don’t keep the rumors from seeping through…
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One night in Portland makes a hard gnome humble.
“You do whatcha can with whatcha got.” That’s the Gnome’s new motto after his weekend at the lackluster…