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Full of fire
The greatest pop singer of all time pens his provocative life story.
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Showbox
I joked to an older friend that the crowd gathered to see the reunited Gang of Four at…
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Ain’t No Telling
Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix biographer Charles R. Cross.
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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,…
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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…
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The New Pornographers
Seattle Weekly: Your new album, Twin Cinema (Matador), sounds rawer and more garagey than the first two New…
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…
Music
Plastik fantastik
Richie Hawtin reanimates the DJ-mix CD and stretches his own musical parameters.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…