Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” provides the soundtrack for the sexiest music video ever filmed. In it, Isaak—extraordinarily dashing and aw-shucks…
Several years ago, I soaked up every note of Steely Dan’s live recreation of Can’t Buy a Thrill from a…
Last year, a few older, more mature Rolling Stones fans took to grumbling on an online message board about “The…
“Lounge” should not be a haphazardly applied moniker. Rather, a lounge should be dark, the lines of its patrons’ faces…
From the minute Seattle Theater Group—the nonprofit behind the Paramount and the Moore—took control of a U District theater and…
While a fair number of UW students end up at Marcello Ristorante with visiting parents, the room is set for…
Primus’ Les Claypool, a frequent collaborator with The Dead Kenny Gs’ bandleader, Skerik, came to the sax player recently and…
Homosexuality has become such an accepted part of Seattle life that most straights are no longer wary of walking into…
For 10 years—before Spotify was out of diapers—Rhapsody’s been the go-to source for music fans who’d rather pay $10 a…
Jeff Fielder is everywhere: at Neumos backing up Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan; at the Neptune providing musical accompaniment to…
I discovered the White Horse Trading Company on February 7, when a friend organized a gathering there to mark Dickens’…
The most frustrating/amazing thing about classic-rock and oldies radio is the way stations condense four decades of music into a…
Perhaps it’s the B in Ballard that brings out the neighborhood’s seemingly unquenchable thirst for bourbon. A number of recently…
Somewhere along the line, Irish pubs in the U District and downtown became the favored hangouts of rowdy frat types,…
With releases from the Walkabouts, J. Pinder, Red Jacket Mine, and others over the past year, Fin Records has established…
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head was always on borrowed time, what with the lawsuit-baiting name and everything. When it closed up…
It’s been a while since a local band has had as much star potential as Deep Sea Diver. The trio’s…
It’s not enough to have only fresh fish at Pike Place Market—you can get that at any number of counters….
After making highly successful albums with two of the most prolific record producers in pop-music history—T Bone Burnett (O Brother,…
Tom Eddy has a voice so magical, one genre can’t contain it. As a solo artist, Eddy, 22, performs bluesy…
