Experimental collective Xiu Xiu get up close and extremely personal.
Kathleen Norris redefines Christianity, word by word, in ‘Amazing Grace.’
Recently a friend gave me a copy of the Television Personalities’ The Painted Word from 1984. Unsuspectingly one Sunday afternoon,…
A conversation with a Microphone.
Atreyu find the sweet spot between metal and emo.
Class is in session, and Death Cab for Cutie’s holding the chalk.
James Joyce, His Name Is Alive, and Philip Jeck.
HARVEY DANGER, King James Version (London) A radio programmer friend once told me the most common problem with the avalanche…
Y’know, the Gnome prefers to leave media criticism to Inside.com, Brill’s Content, and maybe Howard Kurtz (though definitely not to…
Deep red brick and emerald green wood trim make up the majority of the New Orleans Creole Restaurant, with casual…
Plus the latest on Hot Hot Heat, Vendetta Red, and more.
Top-selling records at local independent record stores
What do you do for your seventh album? If you’re Sleater-Kinney, you reinvent yourself as a heavy fuzz-psych monster.
Seattle Weekly: Your newest album, War of the Wakening Phantoms [Rainbow Quartz], has a bittersweet ’60s garage sound reminiscent of…
Some say you are what you drive. I say you are what you listen to when you drive. I used…
About a month before 360hiphop.com launched, the bombs started dropping. Every morning, as folks would turn on their machines, the…
Austin’s American Analog Set is almost famous.
What a year it’s been for bluegrass.
Spotted outside of: Orpheum Records, 618 Broadway E, 322-6370 Name: Julia Marie Benzinger Age: 21 Where do you live? “For…
R&B savant Cody ChesnuTT waxes poetic on bitches, Benjamins, and the Almighty.
