¡Cubanismo! carries old-time Afro-Cuban rhythms to a modern audience.
Let me declare my interests up front: Chris Lorraine contributes to this section, and he and his wife, Shannon, aka…
Hellhammer’s black metal band overcame bloody controversy to get back on the screeching track.
“I was in a room with Chuck Berry once,” Elvis Costello told Esquire‘s Tom Junod in a “What I’ve Learned”…
Psycho-country music stars like Porter Wagoner were violent before Eminem made violence cool.
The current Henry art show transfigures old movie and magazine iconography to trenchant effect.
Wim Wenders’ commercial for Buena Vista Social Club.
Lee Ranaldo on reading, writing, and the secret of success.
Ashley Kahn’s A Love Supreme celebrates John Coltrane’s masterpiece.
High above on the catwalks, hot undulating babes undulate hotly in halter tops and short shorts. Images of go-go girls…
The other day, I had lunch with a friend I hadn’t seen in a couple years. Tucking into her roast…
Earshot headliner Shorter heads another sterling lineup.
I had a dream. I had a dream that one day I would smuggle a flask of Jack into the…
Organic meets high-tech in Grandaddy’s songs of deserts and superhumans.
You almost don’t expect such a wild time way out in Ballard, but at the Sunset Tavern, practically anything can…
Today’s lesson in integrity comes from—who knew?—the White Stripes’ Meg and Jack White, who recently turned down $1 million to…
In band polls, as in politics, it’s all about getting out the vote.
The Catheters get curious on their second album.
The week’s local music calendar.
From 1979 to somewhere in the mid-’80s, me and Mark Smith of the Fall, the second greatest band of the…
