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Rachel SumnerThe situation It’s a Friday evening and I’m at re:public in
Published 7:00am Wednesday, September 5, 2012Rachel SumnerThe situation It’s a Friday evening and I’m at re:public in South Lake Union sharing plates of pork belly and pommes frites with 26-year-old ... Read more
A true Walla Walla originalGordy Venneri, along with business partner Myles Anderson
Published 7:00am Wednesday, September 5, 2012A true Walla Walla originalGordy Venneri, along with business partner Myles Anderson (one of the founders of Walla Walla Community College’s esteemed Center for Enology ... Read more
The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 4, 2012THURSDAY 9/6 First Thursday: Art for a Cause After the doldrums of August, when galleries trim their hours and many artists are out of town, the ... Read more
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye: Just Another Transsexual Rock ‘n’ Roll Marriage
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 4, 2012Marie Losier’s doc chronicles Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle founder Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s recent career and second marriage, both defined by P-Orridge’s surgically aided transformation ... Read more
This Week’s Recommended Shows
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 4, 2012From Against Me! to Blackstreet. Read more
Blanket Truth, Urban WildlifeSelf-released, out nowFacebookBlanket Truth is a DIY bedroom pop
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 4, 2012Blanket Truth, Urban WildlifeSelf-released, out nowFacebookBlanket Truth is a DIY bedroom pop collaboration between Seattle musicians Jon Manning and Eli Damm, and Urban Wildlife looks ... Read more
Singing Ambrosia at Marco’s Karaoke
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 4, 2012Between soft rock and a hard place. Read more
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, singing my song at Bumbershoot 2003. Photo by John
Published 7:00am Monday, September 3, 2012Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, singing my song at Bumbershoot 2003. Photo by John Davisson. The first time I ever stepped foot on Washington soil was in ... Read more
Renee McMahonTony Bennett — with drummer Harold Jones — played Bumbershoot’s Mainstage
Published 7:00am Monday, September 3, 2012Renee McMahonTony Bennett — with drummer Harold Jones — played Bumbershoot’s Mainstage on Sunday, September 2.If anything has characterized the past few years of Bumbershoot, ... Read more
The movie I’d seen before, and the poster seemed strangely familiar. That
Published 7:00am Sunday, September 2, 2012The movie I’d seen before, and the poster seemed strangely familiar. That film is 1963’s Elvis vehicle It Happened at the World’s Fair, shot partly ... Read more
Renee McMahonKing Khan And The Shrines played Bumbershoot on Saturday, September 1.The
Published 7:00am Sunday, September 2, 2012Renee McMahonKing Khan And The Shrines played Bumbershoot on Saturday, September 1.The first day of any music festival is always a little weird. The excitement ... Read more
The group show Skyward!, at Fisher Pavilion, riffs on the futuristic ambitions
Published 7:00am Sunday, September 2, 2012The group show Skyward!, at Fisher Pavilion, riffs on the futuristic ambitions of our 1962 World’s Fair. The sci-fi mandate would seem a natural for ... Read more
Renee McMahonGotye played Bumbershoot’s Mainstage on Saturday, September 1.That an Australian pop
Published 7:00am Saturday, September 1, 2012Renee McMahonGotye played Bumbershoot’s Mainstage on Saturday, September 1.That an Australian pop singer who was a complete unknown to U.S. listeners a year ago was ... Read more
826 Day
Published 7:00am Friday, August 31, 2012The average tutor usually sets up shop at the library, not at the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. (aka 826 Seattle), part of Dave Eggers’ ... Read more
Duwamish River Festival
Published 7:00am Thursday, August 30, 2012It’s a toxin-filled Superfund cleanup site. It’s a fetid ribbon meandering its way through industrial Seattle. And it’s the most important waterway in our city’s ... Read more
Skrillex plays Bumbershoot’s Mainstage at 9:30 p.m., Monday.By David StoeszThe Bumbershoot website
Published 7:00am Thursday, August 30, 2012Skrillex plays Bumbershoot’s Mainstage at 9:30 p.m., Monday.By David StoeszThe Bumbershoot website lists 68 musical acts by my count. Of those, exactly seven are African ... Read more
The Physics
Published 7:00am Thursday, August 30, 2012The Physics’ recorded catalog is a portrait of consistency rarely equaled in rap music. The Seattle trio has gone to great lengths to ensure a ... Read more
Cairo Vibrations Festival
Published 7:00am Thursday, August 30, 2012Vibrations is the ultimate chiller fest—a one-day, free, outdoor event with no super-huge names eliminates worrying about money, sleeping in grimy campgrounds, and fending with ... Read more
A much more comfortable garment to play in.If I were in charge,
Published 7:00am Wednesday, August 29, 2012A much more comfortable garment to play in.If I were in charge, I’d abolish the unnecessary, indefensible tuxedo once and for all from classical performance. ... Read more
There was a time when the word “supergroup” was reserved for bands
Published 7:00am Wednesday, August 29, 2012There was a time when the word “supergroup” was reserved for bands like the Traveling Wilburys, but lately it’s been flying around the work of ... Read more