In the spring of 1995, I was still a resident of the middlest part of middle America, Fargo, North Dakota….
The Watering Hole: Sam’s Tavern, 1024 E. Pike St., 860-4238, CAPITOL HILLThe Atmosphere: A quintessential Capitol Hill bar with a…
LOCAL BANDS* Blooper, Long Distance (out now, Manic Pop! Records, blooper.bandcamp.com): This four-song EP is a bracing blast of quick…
SW: You built a new studio prior to recording the album, correct?Everett: What happened was, most of the previous records…
Michael Apted’s subsequent chapters of this famed documentary series, first created for British television in 1964, have ranged far beyond…
You goddamn Washingtonians. You hear “Ohio” and you think “Iowa.” I swear to God you don’t know the difference. You…
Last month Microsoft, in the hope of burnishing the reputation of Internet Explorer, launched an ad that essentially asked, “Remember…
Dave LakeThe Beatles are arguably the greatest band of all-time, which could just make Rain the greatest cover band of…
Duff McKagan is the founding bassist of Guns N’ Roses and the leader of Seattle’s Loaded. His column runs every…
Break out the plaid flannel and ragged jeans you have hidden in your closet, because listening to the all-female trio…
On the press page of Lonesome Shack’s website, a bit written by a Luke Bergman describes the band’s tunes as…
Feature-length animation has become a monopoly for Disney and Pixar, while basically nothing is made for adults. At a typical…
Curt Krause prefers a strange face to a familiar one.It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate the regular fans who come…
On one hand, with fingers left to spare, you can count the number of local authors who’ve had their books…
After a dozen years apart, Ben Folds Five, one of the ’90s’ most surprising success stories, re-formed last year, inspired…
Hot Bodies in Motion, Principle AOut now, self-releasedWebsite Befitting a band whose website bears the unfortunate tagline “Soulful Swagger,” Hot…
Israel Keyes killed people, but he didn’t have an exact count, he said, sitting at a table in an Alaskan…
Hollywood generally treats aging as an ennobling process, a time of gauzy reflection or an opportunity to transmit sage wisdom…
The unheralded godfather of minimalism, Canadian-born composer Colin McPhee (1900–64) became so captivated by a recording of Balinese music that…
Eliot Hazel For Swedish duo Niki and The Dove, anything can serve as a source of inspiration. “We can hear…
