We interrupt your regularly scheduled music column for a concert review. The Metro Gnome will return next week. Coldplay, Showbox,…
PASTOR TROY Face Off Madd Society/Universal PREFUSE 73 Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives Warp THE SOUTH’S FIRST HIP-HOP wave may…
Amsterdam’s ICP Orchestra is coming into town, swinging.
Doves point the way for a guitar-pop revival.
BEACHWOOD SPARKS, Beachwood Sparks (Sub Pop) Two years ago, near the Southern California corner of Beachwood and Sparks, four West…
Wednesday, Nov. 10Black Eyes and NecktiesThe outfits alone make this band worth seeing. Crass is their biggest influence. Enough said….
Weird spelling and quiet music: the Carissa’s Wierd story.
WedLive MusicBenaroya Hall The Coats (a capella) at 7:30 p.m. $24.50 Handel’s Messiah at 7:30 p.m. 200 University St., 215-4800.Celtic…
Top-Selling Records at Local Record Stores10.CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (self-released)9.LAURA VEIRS Year of Meteors…
Bathed in date-flattering red-gold light, the Mirabeau Room—very different from the space’s former incarnation, the lovably divey piano bar Sorry…
Top-selling records at local independent record stores
Also: Nouvelle Vague, RÖYKSOPP, Rosie Thomas, Scharpling and Wurster, and David Gray.
A chat with one of New Zealand’s coolest exports.
Wed LIVE MUSIC AGUA VERDE Gypsy swing with Zhaoui, 8-10 p.m. 1303 N.E. Boat St., 206-545-8570. ALL AMERICAN Metro Retro…
You’ve heard it a thousand times: Breaking up is hard to do. Nonsense. Breaking up is easy to do. It’s…
THEA GILMORE Rules for Jokers (Compass Records) Winning American debut from up-and-coming English folk chanteuse. Hard to say where 21-year-old…
A few weeks ago, I was booked to DJ in the ARO.space lounge on a Friday. The promoters specifically asked…
Emil Richards, “Sapphire (September)” (Uni; 1967). The Zodiac (Mort Garson and Jacques Wilson), “Aries—the Fire-Fighter” (Elektra; 1967). The Electric Flag,…
RAS KASS Van Gogh (Priority) Ras Kass was the answer. Seven years ago, the Carson, Calif., native appeared out of…
Top-selling secords at local record stores 10. PEDRO THE LION Achilles Heel (Jade Tree) 9. MORRISSEY You Are the Quarry…
