An MP3 CDR of the year’s reissues.
A DJ battle is a little like a Home Run Derby for people who hate sports. Pyrotechnical display, gratuitous spectacle,…
An utterly predictable tale of the unpredictable music business.
R. KELLY “Happy People” (Jive) The impulse to write off R. Kelly, to reduce his records to mere by-products of…
From yodeling to cartoon sound effects, these CDs can’t be duplicated
Seattle Weekly: Your new album, Twin Cinema (Matador), sounds rawer and more garagey than the first two New Pornographers albums,…
Does the demise of Pioneer Square’s last remaining independent artists’ building signal the end of Seattle’s arts community as we know it?
Sonic Youth connect the dots between underground music of all stripes.
Making good on paisley-tinted retro with groovy indie-popsters Of Montreal.
Richie Hawtin reanimates the DJ-mix CD and stretches his own musical parameters.
Seattle Weekly: As Boom Bap Project, you, DJ Scene, and Destro have been around Seattle’s hip-hop scene for a few…
Seattle Weekly: Given how visible your pop-rock band, the Catch, has become locally since it began four-and-a-half years ago, it’s…
Cardboard CD cases, fake DJs, and pink pleather guitars: presenting Imputor?, Seattle’s most intriguing record label.
Seattle Weekly: Yacht Rock, the Internet program on www.channel101.com that you write, produce, and star in, has become a cult…
Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Ann Powers and Eric Weisbard of the EMP Pop Music Studies Conference.
The Nice Boys, “You Won’t See Me Anymore” (Discourage). Spoon, “Decora” (The Believer, June issue). The White Stripes, “My Doorbell”…
Seattle Weekly: You’ve just self-published a book, Rakim Told Me: Hip-Hop Wax Facts, Straight From the Original Artists—the ’80s, featuring…
Tape, “A Spire” (Häpna). John Prine, “Glory of True Love” (Oh Boy!). The Thin Man, “An Undertaker Muses . . . ” (Contraphonic). Big…
Atmosphere reclaim hip-hop’s introspective side—hold the vegetables.
Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Lucy Atkinson and Chris Martin of Kinski.
