Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, singing my song at Bumbershoot 2003. Photo by John Davisson. The first time I ever stepped foot…
Renee McMahonTony Bennett — with drummer Harold Jones — played Bumbershoot’s Mainstage on Sunday, September 2.If anything has characterized the…
The group show Skyward!, at Fisher Pavilion, riffs on the futuristic ambitions of our 1962 World’s Fair. The sci-fi mandate…
The movie I’d seen before, and the poster seemed strangely familiar. That film is 1963’s Elvis vehicle It Happened at…
Renee McMahonKing Khan And The Shrines played Bumbershoot on Saturday, September 1.The first day of any music festival is always…
Renee McMahonGotye played Bumbershoot’s Mainstage on Saturday, September 1.That an Australian pop singer who was a complete unknown to U.S….
The average tutor usually sets up shop at the library, not at the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. (aka 826…
The Physics’ recorded catalog is a portrait of consistency rarely equaled in rap music. The Seattle trio has gone to…
Vibrations is the ultimate chiller fest—a one-day, free, outdoor event with no super-huge names eliminates worrying about money, sleeping in…
It’s a toxin-filled Superfund cleanup site. It’s a fetid ribbon meandering its way through industrial Seattle. And it’s the most…
Skrillex plays Bumbershoot’s Mainstage at 9:30 p.m., Monday.By David StoeszThe Bumbershoot website lists 68 musical acts by my count. Of…
A much more comfortable garment to play in.If I were in charge, I’d abolish the unnecessary, indefensible tuxedo once and…
There was a time when the word “supergroup” was reserved for bands like the Traveling Wilburys, but lately it’s been…
Wattie Cheung The Vaselines — featuring Frances McKee and Eugene Kelly — play the Sub Pop stage at Bumbershoot at…
WEDNESDAY 8/29 Books: On the Road Bainbridge novelist Jonathan Evison owns an old RV which he uses as a mobile writing…
From Deerhoof and Heart to The Offspring and Garbage.
The current July/August issue of Dave Eggers’ San Francisco lit mag The Believer is the Music Issue, and it comes…
We visit the region’s two new tourist museums.
A new UW study suggests that attending a Protestant megachurch is a lot like doing drugs.
How a remote south-of-SoDo chili shack became a star attraction.
