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Hello! Kento Oiwa and Michiko Swiggs originally hail from Japan. “We both ended up in Olympia to go…
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New Romantics
Bettie Serveert, “Hands Off” (Palomine). iTunes Sick Bees, “God Will Stop Yer Party” (Up). iTunes Barbara Manning and…
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Teenage Fanclub at Neumo’s
Often, power-pop fans are hilarious. Only a confirmed Pollyanna or an extremely sloppy thinker would have imagined Teenage…
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Surprisingly Good Electronica
VARIOUS ARTISTS Offshore Presents Troubled Water Mixed by Clever (Offshore/ Single Cell) The last genre where any nondiehard…
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Louis Jordan and his Tympany Band: Films and Soundies
Idem, $19.95 THE ’40S SAXOPHONIST, bandleader, and songwriter Louis Jordan spent 106 weeks at the top of Billboard‘s…
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Lifesavas at Neumo’s
Last Thursday, Oct. 6, I arrived at the office to a computer whose hard drive had spontaneously combusted…
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Out of the Past
Ossman-Dudley Trio, “St. Louis Tickle” (Columbia/Legacy; 1906). Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright, “Ticklish Reuben” (Old Hat; 1927). Alfred…
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Peter Hook at Neumo’s
The oldies circuit is seldom fun for the people on it. You hit the casinos or dinner theaters,…
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Whadchagit?
Spotted outside: Eye and Ear Control, 4822 Rainier SW, 722-0300 Name: David Wight Where do you live? Issaquah…
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Remastery
Among those feeling oppressed by the cultural hegemony of the ’60s (and considering that horribly mummified “500 Greatest…