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Pixies
Published 8:00am Tuesday, November 10, 2009Since I was four years old when Doolittle came out (the Pixies second album, which the band will play in its entirety on this tour), ... Read more
(Untitled): Adam Goldberg as Self-Hating Artiste
Published 8:00am Monday, November 9, 2009Aiming wide and missing, this satire of the contemporary-art scene was seemingly lifted from the transcripts of late-’80s Senate debates about the NEA. Two highly ... Read more
David Bazan performed Saturday night at Neumo’s, the first time in five
Published 8:00am Monday, November 9, 2009David Bazan performed Saturday night at Neumo’s, the first time in five years with a full backing band.From the opening bars of “Hard to Be,” ... Read more
Red, Red Fine
Published 8:00am Monday, November 9, 2009Dont let the Blood Red Dancers pop flirtations fool you. They still like things ugly. Read more
Friday Mile: He Said, She Said
Published 8:00am Monday, November 9, 2009After a rough year, Friday Mile has a new record and a new perspective. Read more
The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events
Published 8:00am Monday, November 9, 2009THURSDAY 11/12 Classical: Chorally Ambiguous Carl Orff: a hapless German Shostakovich, muddling through as best he could under a psychotic tyranny? Or a musical Riefenstahl, ... Read more
I Like Metal, Not KISS
Published 8:00am Monday, November 9, 2009Not every metalhead loves a made-up rocker. Read more
We Live in Public: Web-Cam Narcissism Runs Amok
Published 8:00am Monday, November 9, 2009Documentarian Ondi Timoner lends her credulity and camera to swollen, damaged egos who believe themselves visionaries. We Live in Public documents 10 years in the ... Read more
Q&A: Kenny G on Waynes World, Weezer, and Barack Obama
Published 8:00am Monday, November 9, 2009"Im a sax player thats trying to become a better sax player." Read more
David BelisleMichael Stipe, in David Belisle’s 2008 book, R.E.M.: Hello.If you’re looking
Published 8:00am Thursday, November 5, 2009David BelisleMichael Stipe, in David Belisle’s 2008 book, R.E.M.: Hello.If you’re looking for an evening alternative to David Gray (I have no idea who put ... Read more
If you think putting on a $75-a-head dinner is a risky proposition
Published 8:00am Thursday, November 5, 2009If you think putting on a $75-a-head dinner is a risky proposition in this economy, think again. Sorry to say, Elliott’s Oyster New Year (30 ... Read more
Cut Chemist is playing Benaroya Hall on Friday night.Are you a student?
Published 8:00am Thursday, November 5, 2009Cut Chemist is playing Benaroya Hall on Friday night.Are you a student? Aren’t we all? Tomorrow’s concert featuring LA DJ Cut Chemist is not only ... Read more
These United States
Published 8:00am Wednesday, November 4, 2009Its been a good handful of years for honest-to-goodness American rock music. Among the many bands who have gained notoriety eschewing sub-genre-isms and arty sonic ... Read more
Laura Musselman
Published 8:00am Wednesday, November 4, 2009After several years of traveling around her native Midwest in pursuit of Northwest bands like The Long Winters and Death Cab for Cutie, SW contributing ... Read more
The Mountain Goats
Published 8:00am Wednesday, November 4, 2009Mountain Goats mainstay John Darnielle has a recurring, if uneasy, relationship with Christianity. After the death and illness in recent years of several people close ... Read more
U-District Jazz Walk
Published 8:00am Wednesday, November 4, 2009Over the past year, David Pierre-Lewis has managed to achieve what few club owners even attempt: Hes gotten the kids into jazz. His LUCID Jazz ... Read more
Dirty Projectors
Published 8:00am Wednesday, November 4, 2009The New York trio (which adds two members when touring) is as easy to love as Animal Collective and as easy to hate as Vampire ... Read more
Headlights
Published 8:00am Wednesday, November 4, 2009Ethereal and deeply emotional, Headlights new album Wildlife is not so much a departure for the band as it is a fuller realization of its ... Read more
Devo
Published 8:00am Wednesday, November 4, 2009When Devo was at its peak nearly 30 years ago, founding members Gerry Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh sublimated their political ire into biting social commentary. ... Read more
Bishop Allen
Published 8:00am Wednesday, November 4, 2009Justin Rice and Christian Rudder of Brooklyns Bishop Allen both moonlight as actors in their spare time most notably, both appeared in last years ... Read more