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Full of fire

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Full of fire

The greatest pop singer of all time pens his provocative life story.

Showbox

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Showbox

I joked to an older friend that the crowd gathered to see the reunited Gang of Four at…

Charles R. Cross

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Ain’t No Telling

Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix biographer Charles R. Cross.

Once More With Feeling

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Once More With Feeling

An MP3 CDR of the year's reissues.

Opticlash at the Capitol Hill Arts Center

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Opticlash at the Capitol Hill Arts Center

A DJ battle is a little like a Home Run Derby for people who hate sports. Pyrotechnical display,…

Behind the music

Arts & Culture

Behind the music

An utterly predictable tale of the unpredictable music business.

R. Kelly

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Sequels and/or Remakes Find Their Groove

R. KELLY “Happy People” (Jive) The impulse to write off R. Kelly, to reduce his records to mere…

A Beat Apart

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A Beat Apart

From yodeling to cartoon sound effects, these CDs can't be duplicated

Left to right: Kurt Dahle, Neko Case, John Collins, Carl Newman, Blaine Thurier, and Todd Fancey (missing: Dan Bejar).

Music

The New Pornographers

Seattle Weekly: Your new album, Twin Cinema (Matador), sounds rawer and more garagey than the first two New…

Money v. Art: Kevin Friberg at the doomed Shoe.

Arts & Culture

The last shoe drops

Does the demise of Pioneer Square's last remaining independent artists' building signal the end of Seattle's arts community…

The new jazz: Sonic Youth keep growing.

Music

Concrete poetry

Sonic Youth connect the dots between underground music of all stripes.

Of Montreal, from left: James Huggins, Jason NeSmith, Matt Dawson, Bryan Poole, Dottie Alexander, and Kevin Barnes.

Music

The Undead ’60s

Making good on paisley-tinted retro with groovy indie-popsters Of Montreal.

He's a Plastikman: Richie Hawtin

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Plastik fantastik

Richie Hawtin reanimates the DJ-mix CD and stretches his own musical parameters.

Boom Bap Project: Karim, DJ Scene, and Destro.

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Boom Bap Project

Seattle Weekly: As Boom Bap Project, you, DJ Scene, and Destro have been around Seattle’s hip-hop scene for…

What's The Catch?

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The Catch

Seattle Weekly: Given how visible your pop-rock band, the Catch, has become locally since it began four-and-a-half years…

Darrin Wiener, left, and the Vells' Tristan Marcum with the infamous pink pleather guitar.

Music

Made of Plastiq

Cardboard CD cases, fake DJs, and pink pleather guitars: presenting Imputor?, Seattle's most intriguing record label.

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J.D. Ryznar

Seattle Weekly: Yacht Rock, the Internet program on www.channel101.com that you write, produce, and star in, has become…

They just want some of your extra time; Ann Powers, two doppelgängers, and Eric Weisbard.

Music

Conference Calling

Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Ann Powers and Eric Weisbard of the EMP Pop Music Studies Conference.

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Boot Party

The Nice Boys, “You Won’t See Me Anymore” (Discourage). Spoon, “Decora” (The Believer, June issue). The White Stripes,…

Brian Coleman with Rakim on the brain.

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Brian Coleman

Seattle Weekly: You’ve just self-published a book, Rakim Told Me: Hip-Hop Wax Facts, Straight From the Original Artists—the…