Activist hip-hop, occult rap, and weirdo punk made our month.
Bleached, Erik Blood, weed, fatherhood, and more.
The Seattle nonprofit radio station has long celebrated the musicians who defined a particular kind of pop music. Now it is getting used to mourning them.
A firsthand account of the rapper’s hot-box bus stunt.
Aaron Posner loves his authors. He has since he was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, consuming every work by those writers who spoke to his particular understanding of the world.
Is dabbing the same as hot knives? And, uh, while we’re at it, what the hell is hot knives?
“I don’t think Uncle Ike’s is the cause of the problem,” Watson notes, “but I’ll be damned if it isn’t a perfect metaphor.”
The clearest and most incisive recent critique of the capital forces changing the Central District came last week in the form of a seven-years-in-the-making hip-hop record, Seattle’s Own, from Central District native and current South-Ender Draze.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled metaphors yearning to breathe free.”
From fencing to 3-D animation, there are a lot of options for Seattle-area kids this summer.
Fainting Room Collective’s Triple-Six 7-Inch Box Set features records from Haunted Horses, Bali Girls, Stickers, He Whose Ox Is Gored, The Family Curse, and Transmissionary.
People drift in and out, chat, or meditate, and you might see someone popping a melatonin or asking if the bar has tea.
From Taiwanese rappers to boozy classical music, all the best things to do this week.
“Mr. Gyros is as amazing as the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction and I would recommend it to anyone who needs a place to eat.”
Despite the clumsiness, the film casts a spell. Its jazz rhythm has something to do with this.
Seventy-five years ago, the folk icon arrived in the Pacific Northwest to write songs for a progressive cause. The progress faltered, but the songs remain.
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Seattle came a long ways in the 2000s, but it lost something as well.
An influx of talent and trouble quickly brings Seattle up to speed.
How to be in Seattle in the last decade of the 20th century.
