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Jenny JimenezWatch a slideshow of the people, places, and pets Jenny happened

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Jenny Jimenez Watch a slideshow of the people, places, and pets Jenny happened upon this week in Madrona. Every week, photograph and conversationalist Jenny Jimenez ... Read more

Built to Spill

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Like all great bands, you know Built to Spill within seconds of hearing them. The great Idaho concern creates music as sprawling, soaring, and wonky ... Read more

The Swell Season

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The Swell Season is the stirring, earnestly emotional duo forged by Irish rocker Glen Hansard and Czech pianist Markéta Irglová. While co-starring in the 2007 ... Read more

A Hard Day’s Night

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

With the Fab Four already in control of English airwaves in 1964, A Hard Day’s Night today feels less like a stereotypical rock movie than ... Read more

Julian Casablancas

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Part of Julian Casablancas’ reputation as the Strokes’ frontman has always been his bratty nonchalance – it’s something of a surprise, then, to discover that ... Read more

Thunderheist

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Happy accidents have been the origins of some of the world’s greatest recipes, discoveries and a majority of its siblings. In what could have been ... Read more

The Real Crooked Vultures …

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

… are the lazy journalists who tag bands—like this trio of rock legends—with glib labels. Read more

KBCS: Staying Afloat

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

KBCS ticks off listeners by getting less jazzy. The public-radio station says it’s doing what it must to stay on the air. Read more

The Books

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The Books have kept active in the past four years – touring and releasing a DVD, as well as composing elevator music for France’s Ministry ... Read more

Classical: Shock of the Old

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Peter Hallock turned medieval tradition into a contemporary phenomenon. Read more

White Center has an Art Walk every third Saturday of the month,

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

White Center has an Art Walk every third Saturday of the month, from 6:00-9:00 p.m., and all of the venues have food or drink worthy ... Read more

Nonsequitur

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Parallels between the musical style of composer John Luther Adams and the landscape surrounding him—Alaska, where he’s lived for 30 years—are easy to draw: spaciousness, ... Read more

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The Fiery Furnaces ~ Wednesday, November 18 The Fiery Furnaces can’t seem to decide what kind of band it wants to be. From the beginning, ... Read more

Those Darlins

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Mainstream country music stars reality-show blondes with streaky highlights and shrieky voices, over-emoting through ballads so leaden and unimaginative, they sound more like hair bands ... Read more

Stage: Shakespeare in Trouble

Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The Rep’s new Elizabethan thriller. Read more

Flight of the ConchordsDuff McKagan’s column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He

Published 8:00am Monday, November 16, 2009

Flight of the ConchordsDuff McKagan’s column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what’s circulating through his iPod every Monday.Clutch, “Mob Goes Wild”: Clutch ... Read more

— New York Magazine: Citing bands like Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear, and

Published 8:00am Monday, November 16, 2009

— New York Magazine: Citing bands like Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear, and MGMT, NY Mag says New York is “America’s music capital again.” Seriously? Dirty ... Read more

The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

Published 8:00am Monday, November 16, 2009

WEDNESDAY 11/18 Stage/Film: The Birds and the Bees Isabella Rossellini needs no introduction. Yet the star of Blue Velvet and daughter of Ingrid Bergman and ... Read more

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire: A Big Serving of Urban Misery

Published 8:00am Monday, November 16, 2009

In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old; mother of a four-year-old Down Syndrome ... Read more

Julian Casablancas plays Showbox at the Market on Sunday night.Julian Casablancas wasn’t

Published 8:00am Monday, November 16, 2009

Julian Casablancas plays Showbox at the Market on Sunday night. Julian Casablancas wasn’t planning to make a solo album when The Strokes went on hiatus ... Read more