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The Taqwacores: Muslim Punks Are Just as Annoying as They Sound
Published 8:00am Tuesday, February 8, 2011There are all the elements of a terrific spoof in The Taqwacores, which follows a year in the life of a house of Muslim punk/hardcore ... Read more
Phantogram made their TV debut last Wednesday on Late Night With Jimmy
Published 8:00am Tuesday, February 8, 2011Phantogram made their TV debut last Wednesday on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, where they performed “Mouthful of Diamonds.” It was a killer number, especially ... Read more
Last year’s festival sold out months in advance, and there’s no reason
Published 8:00am Monday, February 7, 2011Last year’s festival sold out months in advance, and there’s no reason to believe this year’s won’t, too. And after last night’s announcement of the ... Read more
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
Published 8:00am Sunday, February 6, 2011Not a composer, but an inventor of genius was Arnold Schoenbergs description of John Cage, and the phrase is even more apt for Seattle-based, German-born ... Read more
Moulin Rouge
Published 8:00am Sunday, February 6, 2011Baz Luhrmanns flamboyant, cartoonish, often headache-inducing Moulin Rouge (2001) has maybe a thousand musical cues that trigger samples, cover versions, and bits of original songs, ... Read more
I’m new here (like Gil Scott-Heron), so just let me introduce myself
Published 8:00am Friday, February 4, 2011I’m new here (like Gil Scott-Heron), so just let me introduce myself (like Humpty). My name is Grandy, pronounced with a “that’s as far as ... Read more
1. We don’t know what chillwave is, and we refuse to find
Published 8:00am Friday, February 4, 20111. We don’t know what chillwave is, and we refuse to find out. So we’re outsourcing it to Eric Grandy, a longtime local music writer ... Read more
Our friend and colleague Travis Hay has taken in on the chin
Published 8:00am Friday, February 4, 2011Our friend and colleague Travis Hay has taken in on the chin in recent years. After freelancing for the P-I forEVER, he finally scored a ... Read more
Even Filipinas want to be her.Things settled down during my second and
Published 8:00am Friday, February 4, 2011Even Filipinas want to be her. Things settled down during my second and final week in the Philippines. One big Sunday of brandy, Red Horse, ... Read more
Photo courtesy Joshua HustonAnd if not lasers, then what we eat will
Published 8:00am Friday, February 4, 2011Photo courtesy Joshua HustonAnd if not lasers, then what we eat will be beyond cuisine, beyond borders, beyond the traditional definitions of French food or ... Read more
Rodney Crowell
Published 8:00am Thursday, February 3, 2011Rodney Crowell has lived a Nashville dream life. He was a member of Emmylou Harris Hot Band in the ’70s, wrote Grammy-winning songs covered by ... Read more
A new copy of The National’s Boxer, $12.99.I’m not sure if this
Published 8:00am Wednesday, February 2, 2011A new copy of The National’s Boxer, $12.99.I’m not sure if this story is funny or sad, but it’s true, and it demonstrates almost everything ... Read more
Hey, did you hear that the White Stripes broke up today? That
Published 8:00am Wednesday, February 2, 2011Hey, did you hear that the White Stripes broke up today? That means they’re going to continue not making music until they decide to make ... Read more
It was a good run; after earning a spot high on Seattle
Published 8:00am Wednesday, February 2, 2011It was a good run; after earning a spot high on Seattle Weekly’s “Top 10 Seattle Hip-Hop Videos of 2010,” Seattle expat J.Pinder’s captivating Jon ... Read more
Rihanna and Lady Gaga owe some of their success to C89.5 FM.
Published 8:00am Wednesday, February 2, 2011Rihanna and Lady Gaga owe some of their success to C89.5 FM. Die-hard dance-music fans already respect C89.5 FM as one of the genre’s most ... Read more
http://www.elasmodiver.com/It’s a Basking Shark, and yes, there’s a connection.Once upon a time,
Published 8:00am Wednesday, February 2, 2011http://www.elasmodiver.com/It’s a Basking Shark, and yes, there’s a connection.Once upon a time, I thought about going to cooking school, until I realized I would have ... Read more
Ask a Mexican!
Published 8:00am Wednesday, February 2, 2011Dear Mexican, My gabacho friends look at me askance for being a gabacho who enjoys mariachi music. They, and even some of my Mexican friends, ... Read more
John Roderick is the singer and songwriter responsible for Seattle’s the Long
Published 8:00am Tuesday, February 1, 2011John Roderick is the singer and songwriter responsible for Seattle’s the Long Winters. His column appears on Reverb every Tuesday.I was singing along to oldies ... Read more
The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Published 8:00am Tuesday, February 1, 2011The Get Up Kids/Wednesday, February 2 If you thought you’d outgrown heart-on-your-sleeve, power-chord-laden emo, you probably broke up with the Get Up Kids at least ... Read more
The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
Published 8:00am Tuesday, February 1, 2011THURSDAY /2/3 Burlesque: Take Most of It Off! Overbearing mothers skank up their preteen daughters for beauty pageants while we watch in horror. But is ... Read more