Search Results for ""
Alex Ross
Published 7:00am Friday, October 1, 2010Accidentally or by design, modern jazz and rock combos took on the same basic template that baroque composers developed centuries earlier for chamber music: melody ... Read more
Cunningham in the Northwest
Published 7:00am Friday, October 1, 2010A native of Centralia, Merce Cunningham started his career at Cornish, where he was a student in the 1930s, and it’s Cornish that is one ... Read more
Ralph Stanley
Published 7:00am Friday, October 1, 2010Wintergrass may have jumped ship to bourgeois Bellevue, but this show is proof that bluegrass still has a home in Tacoma. With his clawhammer banjo ... Read more
Tony Clifton
Published 7:00am Friday, October 1, 2010Andy Kaufman has been dead for 26 years, yet Tony Clifton lives on. The belligerent, pot-bellied lounge entertainer is a persona he crafted with his ... Read more
Duff McKagan’s column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what
Published 7:00am Thursday, September 30, 2010Duff McKagan’s column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday. Slash plays a sold-out show ... Read more
“Fuck, I’m old.”From the first time I saw the name “Royal Unicorn”
Published 7:00am Wednesday, September 29, 2010“Fuck, I’m old.”From the first time I saw the name “Royal Unicorn” in the NW Karaoke Newsletter, I knew it was a bar I needed ... Read more
Françoiz Breut
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010The Cherbourg chanteuse Françoiz Breut began her musical career as a backup singer for her then-boyfriend, the songwriter Dominique A, but has since emerged from ... Read more
Dirty Projectors
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010Is there any band more polarizing in the current indie rock canon than Dirty Projectors? Is it even possible to be simply indifferent to a ... Read more
Das Racist
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010It takes a special breed to turn the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell into a hip-hop anthem. But dont let the fast-food fascination blind ... Read more
The Ex X
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010How Japan's biggest band plans to conquer the States without their most famous member. Read more
Artist: Aloe BlaccAlbum: Good ThingsLabel: Stones Throw RecordsRelease date: September 28 (Today)Rating
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010Artist: Aloe BlaccAlbum: Good ThingsLabel: Stones Throw RecordsRelease date: September 28 (Today)Rating (Skip, Stream, or Buy): BuyStream: “I Need A Dollar”Some album covers are just ... Read more
The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010WEDNESDAY 9/29 Visual Arts: Assembly Required Set-apart From Memory by Time is an architectural funhouse. Set diagonally across the large gallery, this corridor can be ... Read more
Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside be easily labeled as a jazz band. Ford has the voice of soul singer: throaty and rough around the ... Read more
Stage Preview: The Rite of Mercury
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010A local troupe turns ritual into rock opera. Read more
Dance Review: PNB’s “Director’s Choice”
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010Peter Boal shows his affections. Read more
Slash Dance
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010You've heard his axe, but my friend's dance moves will shred you to pieces. Read more
Not that I need any further convincing, but it’s times like these
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010Not that I need any further convincing, but it’s times like these that I’m reminded that one golden record is soooo much better than an ... Read more
Rocket Queen: Crown on the Ground
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010Rocket Queen has left the building. Read more
The Drums
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010There arent many good spots to catch a wave in New York City, but the Brooklyn trio The Drums is making some of the best ... Read more
The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows
Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 28, 2010Arcade Fire / Wednesday, September 29 Indie went mainstream—big time—this year when Merge recording artists Arcade Fire’s third album, the sprawling The Suburbs, debuted atop ... Read more