SPECIAL YEAR-END EDITIONDear Mexican, Longtime reader, first-time writer. I need some advice. My wife (who’s a half-Mexican L.A. native, just…
A best-selling “demo” paves the way for a 2013 debut.
The ravishing and kitschy Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3-D is the rare movie whose title accurately indicates whether you’d…
A Murray Stenson protege serves a cozy cave of Belltown regulars.
Kind of what theater was like in Shakespeare’s day (i.e., rowdier).
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26 Blue Ribbon Boys A benefit for the headlining rock band, who recently had their equipment stolen. With…
Sparklehorse and the symphony of sadness.
WEDNESDAY 12/26 Classical: The Trumpet Shall Sound In the chorus “For Unto Us a Child is Born” in his Messiah, Handel…
Paper Machete/Thursday, December 27 First off: Great band name, right? Secondly: Singer/guitarist/keyboardist Nate Stone and bassist/drummer Guthrie Scarr have a…
Rock and roll proves the coming-of-age crucible in Not Fade Away, Sopranos creator David Chase’s semiautobiographical feature debut of shaggy…
Ah—gratuitous nudity, graphic sex, toilet humor, and pervasive cynicism. Balagan’s homegrown take on the hit puppet musical is perfectly timed…
A lot went into writing your favorite song, but how much do you really know about it? This week Seattle…
Stop stealing Glass Houses! There are 200 copies at your local record store, and they all sell for less than…
The S.S. Coachella took her maiden voyage out of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on the Celebrity Silhouette. The…
The great acoustics you can get in a bathroom is one of musicians’ favorite jokes (or not joke—Paul Simon liked…
The Wild Flag and Portlandia star had one hell of a 2012.
Father John Misty brings sex, drugs, and hijinks to 2012 folk.
We could all stand to spend more time listening to bands, not the echo chamber.
703 local releases reviewed.
You can hear the people sing—really hear them—in the long-gestating screen version of that Broadway juggernaut Les Misérables. Countering the…
