May 3-16
New York promoter SFX has been taking over the live-music market all across America. Could Seattle be next?
It isn’t much to look at, and little niceties like toilet paper and bottled water are often in very short…
After six years, pop songsmith Brendan Benson is back.
A grim but worthwhile docudrama about Afghan teens struggling to go West.
Playing around in the Walden Parking Lot of A Frames’ punk dystopia.
Final score in the Peter Buck/British Airways Terror in the Skies Smackdown: Ambien 1, victims of projectile yogurt bombs 0….
One night with the Strokes might convert you, too.
ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS The Day the Earth Met the . . . (Smog Veil) Finally, some pants that fit….
Norwegian murderer/musician Burzum is a monster with a knack for melody.
Top-Selling Records at Local Record Stores10.R.E.M. Around the Sun (Warner Bros.)9.BRIAN WILSON Smile (Nonesuch)8.BLOOD BROTHERS Crimes (V2)7.ARCADE FIRE Funeral (Merge)6.JOSEPH…
EELS, Daisies of the Galaxy (Dreamworks) Happy music for sad people or sad music for happy people— I can’t decide…
Fledgling female-led musical movement gets ready to blossom.
During the last two years of high school, I whiled away my weekends at a certain Washington, DC, disco. I’ve…
What’s in, what’s fresh, what’s cooking.
Far from their bespectacled and backpacked stereotype, most underground rappers are sonically and sartorially indistinguishable from their mainstream counterparts. Except…
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Take Me Home— A Tribute to John Denver (Badman) What’s this? A tribute album that required thought and…
Wed Live Music All American Metro Retro at 9 p.m. Baranof Kimball and the Fugitive Combo, Stick Shift Annie 8…
Bowling for Soup, “Girl All the Bad Guys Want” (Jive; 2002). Bel Biv DeVoe, “Do Me!” (MCA; 1990). Naughty by…
THE REPUTATION Graceland at 8 p.m. Mon., April 19, with Six Select, Ms. Led, and the Lashes. $5. Elizabeth Elmore…
