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Tell Me About That Album: The Magnetic Fields
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 13, 2012Stephin Merritt explains why he's got 69 Love Songs, but not a single cupcake. Read more
After taking a three-album break from using synths, Stephin Merritt and his
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 13, 2012After taking a three-album break from using synths, Stephin Merritt and his Magnetic Fields return to their 1990’s sound — and label — with Love ... Read more
Opening Nights: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 13, 2012The lead is exceptional, the script isn't. Read more
Say No to (Manhattan) Drugs
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 13, 2012How tough is it to bake a potato properly? Read more
Family Stepping Stone
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 13, 2012Two of the city's hippest funk institutions would rather hit an off note than play the same thing twice. Read more
Being Flynn: Robert De Niro as a Mean, Drunk Writer
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 13, 2012Written and directed by Paul Weitz (American Dreamz), Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn’s 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which ... Read more
Cumulus’ Cloud Rock
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 13, 2012Alexandra Niedzialkowski on Lilith Fair, riot grrl, and the world's most comfortable pillows. Read more
The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 13, 2012WEDNESDAY 3/14 Photography: A New Continent It takes courage to open a gallery these days, when so many have closed since the recession hit. Yet that’s ... Read more
Cozell WilsonThe situation I’m on Capitol Hill at Cafe Presse with 24-year-old
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 13, 2012Cozell WilsonThe situation I’m on Capitol Hill at Cafe Presse with 24-year-old Alexandra Niedzialkowski, founder and frontwoman of the pop-rock band Cumulus. We’re sharing a ... Read more
This Week’s Recommended Shows
Published 7:00am Tuesday, March 13, 2012From Vetiver to The Raincoats. Read more
Garrick Ohlsson
Published 7:00am Monday, March 12, 2012My good friend Mary Louise is a Garrick Ohlsson groupie: not just an owns-all-his-recordings fan, but a plans-vacations-around-his-concert-tours fan. Probably it’s the pianist’s fluent, bittersweet ... Read more
Marco Torres”What I want from each and every one of you is
Published 7:00am Monday, March 12, 2012Marco Torres”What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and ... Read more
Hey Beautiful is the dream-pop project of Mackenzie Buchanan and Seattle resident
Published 7:00am Monday, March 12, 2012Hey Beautiful is the dream-pop project of Mackenzie Buchanan and Seattle resident Matt Menovcik, and Gone is the result of studios sessions that occurred just ... Read more
Oklahoma!
Published 8:00am Friday, March 9, 2012I’ve got three quibbles with this otherwise vigorous production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic. One, many cast members do a terrible job with their ... Read more
Yesterday I was out to lunch when a visitor stopped by our
Published 8:00am Thursday, March 8, 2012Yesterday I was out to lunch when a visitor stopped by our office to hand deliver a letter to me. Susan Gemson is a longtime ... Read more
Nellie McKay
Published 8:00am Thursday, March 8, 2012Reviewing then-teenaged Nellie McKay’s debut album in these pages in 2004, I fretted that—despite her mischievous instincts and prodigious gifts—that she was maybe a bit ... Read more
Grynch
Published 8:00am Wednesday, March 7, 2012This is the album release show for Grynch’s third album, Perspective. Expect to see a few of the album’s guests and hear a ton of ... Read more
Soul Train Party
Published 8:00am Wednesday, March 7, 2012Soul Train’s Don Cornelius (RIP) taught a nation to get down while exposing audiences to some funky music; tonight DJ Riz and Shonuph honor that ... Read more
Tell Me About That Album: Speed of Darkness
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2012Flogging Molly guitarist Dennis Casey on making a record with Jesus. Read more
Sound of Noise: Rogue Percussionists Terrorize Malmo!
Published 8:00am Tuesday, March 6, 2012“I really dislike music,” says a cop ironically named Amadeus, and this ingenious Swedish comedy soon makes it clear why. His younger brother is a ... Read more