Top-selling records at local record stores 10. DIANA KRALL The Girl in the Other Room (Verve) 9. FRANZ FERDINAND Franz…
GREEN DAY International Superhits! (Reprise) Pop punks have time of their lives on singles set. ‘Tis the season to release…
For Christmas 1979, one of my cousins gave me Molly Hatchet’s Flirtin’ With Disaster. At the time, this was a…
Top-selling records at local independent record stores
The most frequently asked question I receive besides, “How do you get up so early?” is “How did you become…
Kasey Chambers makes beautiful music with the sorrow of the world.
Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch takes a solo detour.
BJ֒K Vespartine (Elektra) Iceland’s favorite yelping pixie does the new romantic—and it’s a beautiful thing. Bj�is in love—that much is…
MINUS THE BEAR This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic (Suicide Squeeze Records) Local heavy hitters chill, tell all…
You know Christmas is imminent when you check your e-mail and find a message bearing the subject “Martha’s To Do…
Online, everyone can be a DJ. That’s great news for alternative music fans.
Also: Gilles Peterson in Brazil, John Legend, Hem, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, and Coachwhips.
Being the sensitive guy of the new millennium that I am, I recently felt a strong urge to break out…
Josh Rosenfeld juggles a record label, a band, and a desire to remain true to himself.
Rising stars IQU crossbreed pop and electronics to relieve rock’s boredom.
CINERAMA, Disco Volante (Manifesto) Late in the ’90s, David Gedge faced the perilous question that all accomplished rock songwriters eventually…
Professor Deena Weinstein talks about what makes bands work or not.
Such Great Heights: The Postal Service’s whimsical electronic pop strikes a melancholy chord.
I had checked off “percussion” when Ms. Weiskopf handed out the thin slip of paper that listed our sixth-grade band…
We asked Seattle Weekly’s music writers to compile a CD-R of their favorite music from the year. Here’s what they came up with.
