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Jason Baldwin: Way West of Memphis
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 20, 2012How a famous former prisoner came to call Seattle home. Read more
Boy: Coming of Age in ’80s New Zealand
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 20, 2012The abundant charm of first-time actor James Rolleston, playing the 11-year-old of the title, doesn’t quite save this aimless, nostalgia-woozy second feature from Taika Waititi ... Read more
Invincible Force: Lose Weight, Lose Your Mind
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 20, 2012Directed by Daniel Schneidkraut, Invincible Force first presents itself as some YouTube video diary from a slovenly metalhead janitor in Minneapolis. The look is defiantly ... Read more
Kevin Barnes, front man for Athens, Georgia art-rock band of Montreal, has
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 20, 2012Kevin Barnes, front man for Athens, Georgia art-rock band of Montreal, has long suffered from depression. Exploring notions of identity and sexuality through various personas ... Read more
Gainsbourg: The Man Who Loved Women: Serge Is Still Dead, Still Sexy
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 20, 2012Not to be confused with Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, the biopic that played town last October, this French made-for-TV documentary, directed by Didier Varrod and ... Read more
of Montreal: Critics Vs. the Destroyer
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 20, 2012Kevin Barnes, the band's enigmatic frontman, confronts his adversaries. Read more
This Week’s Recommended Shows
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 20, 2012From Kelly Clarkson to Sharon Van Etten. Read more
Voracious Dining Guide
Published 7:00am Monday, March 19, 2012Our 2012 neighborhood snackdown! Read more
You were a little flat at the end of your performance of
Published 7:00am Monday, March 19, 2012You were a little flat at the end of your performance of “Happy Birthday” there, Wolf ViolinistThe last few days, Village Voice Media’s indefatigable music ... Read more
Danny ClinchEvery week I sit down with 97.3 KIRO FM’s Josh Kerns
Published 7:00am Friday, March 16, 2012Danny ClinchEvery week I sit down with 97.3 KIRO FM’s Josh Kerns and we put together a one-hour music show called Seattle Sounds that airs ... Read more
Pygmalion
Published 7:00am Friday, March 16, 2012In this Seattle Shakespeare Company production, director Jeff Steitzer readily accepts that Pygmalion has its own Hollywood baggage: The stage lights rise to the strains ... Read more
Judas Queen
Published 7:00am Thursday, March 15, 2012Freddy Mercury and Rob Halford totally fucking rock. They also are (were, in Mercury’s case) totally fucking gay. In fact, no two motherfuckers have done ... Read more
Islands
Published 7:00am Thursday, March 15, 2012After spending most of last year playing with the stomping, “doom-wop,” Sub Pop-signed indie supergroup Mister Heavenly, the chameleonic Nick Thorburn quieted things down with ... Read more
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Published 7:00am Thursday, March 15, 2012Ladysmith Black Mambazo is probably the most popular a cappella group on the planet. Their inclusion on Paul Simon’s massively successful 1986 Graceland—recently reissued for ... Read more
Nick RalloSharon Van Etten, at the NPR showcase, was a stunner. Plus,
Published 7:00am Thursday, March 15, 2012Nick RalloSharon Van Etten, at the NPR showcase, was a stunner. Plus, there was a box accordion?If you’re familiar with chaos theory, which in its ... Read more
HERE/NOW
Published 7:00am Thursday, March 15, 2012As a motto, HERE/NOW sounds like an admonition from Ram Dass, but as the title of this ongoing improvisation project run by Paige Barnes and ... Read more
Woody Guthrie Project
Published 7:00am Thursday, March 15, 2012The unfinished lyrical canon of American folk singer Woody Guthrie is so vast—it contains over 3000 handwritten lyrics—and universally revered it seems every few years ... Read more
Blake Shelton & Dia Frampton
Published 7:00am Wednesday, March 14, 2012Blake Shelton is one of the biggest names in mainstream country right now, but I know little about his music career other than he has ... Read more
Indie rock has long had a place on Comedy Central’s satirical right
Published 7:00am Wednesday, March 14, 2012Indie rock has long had a place on Comedy Central’s satirical right wing broadcast the Colbert Report–from Stephen Colbert’s challenging the Decemberists to a green-screen ... Read more
Casa de Mi Padre: Will Ferrell Mugs in Spanish
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 13, 2012Rogue comic Will Ferrell recently turned up in an Old Milwaukee commercial exclusively for the Davenport, Iowa, local market; the obvious next career move, then, ... Read more