Rarities from the vaults of Sly Stone, Elliott Smith, and Neutral Milk Hotel.
FAITH & DISEASE Tractor Tavern at 9 p.m. Thurs., Oct. 30, with Euclid and John Massoni. $6. Seattle’s own Faith…
Polaris, “Hey Sandy” (Polaris; 1999). iTunes Camper Van Beethoven, “Take the Skinheads Bowling” (IRS; 1985). iTunes Supergrass, “Alright” (Capitol; 1995)….
Chances are you’ve passed the Rainbow dozens of times and never noticed it. Perched next to the Blue Moon in…
Seeing how everyone in town was either at the sold-out Sit & Spin, the sold-out Showbox, or the sold-out Sky…
Omar Sosa is unmellowing with age, or so Ballads 1997–2000 (Ota) suggests. The newly released collection finds the Cuban-born pianist…
Justice may not be swift for the killer of Mia Zapata, but god (and the Miami-Dade court system) willing, it…
Ann Powers argues on behalf of sounding like something else.
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”…
Westerberg replaces himself.
On his eighth album, Beck readjusts his position without altering it.
July 21, 2003. 11 a.m. The Gorge. My Roommate Matblond, tan, lean, apple-cheekedflipped off his sunglasses and surveyed the half-naked,…
Also: Breakestra and Elbow.
TIMONIUM Until He Finds Us (Pehr) Some bands work quietly and never go anywhere, but others show a little spark…
Bobby Caldwell, “Take Me Back to Then” (Syndrome; 1978). Les McCann, “Will We Ever Find Our Fathers” (Atlantic; 1975). The…
Highlights—and otherwise—of the week’s calendar.
Top-selling records at local independent record stores
You say goodbye, and I say hello: This week, we bid a fond farewell to several Seattle institutions—the Teen Dance…
COL. BRUCE HAMPTON, One Ruined Life of a Bronze Tourist and Arkansas (Terminus) Despite a wildly iconoclastic recording career that…
