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Music of Remembrance

Published 7:00am Wednesday, October 29, 2008

“[It] seemed to me like a ballet . . . It was like writing music to an existing choreography,” said Israeli composer Betty Olivero of ... Read more

Duff McKagan, a Seattle-based musician is the former bassist for Guns N’

Published 7:00am Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Duff McKagan, a Seattle-based musician is the former bassist for Guns N’ Roses. His current projects include Loaded and Velvet Revolver. His column appears every ... Read more

Current Seattle Times (and former Stranger) music scribe Jonathan Zwickel, who is

Published 7:00am Thursday, October 9, 2008

Current Seattle Times (and former Stranger) music scribe Jonathan Zwickel, who is to women who don’t like soup as honey is to bees, had a ... Read more

Music of Olivier Messiaen

Published 7:00am Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Bird calls and Hindu rhythms, chaos and tunefulness, Hollywood harmonies and “modes of limited transposition”—the music of Olivier Messiaen embraces such disparate elements in the ... Read more

Why MySpace Music Won’t Succeed

Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Rupert Murdoch’s toy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not. Read more

New Music From Ra Ra Riot and N.E.R.D.

Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Both acts are pimping their latest wares in town this week. Read more

Music of Africa at Hidmo

Published 7:00am Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Every Sunday night at Hidmo Eritrean Cuisine, a rotating roster of artists perform music from a different part of the African continent. The first time ... Read more

Day of Music

Published 7:00am Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Disarming those who groused about classical-music elitism, people lined up around the block to get into Benaroya Hall’s first Day of Music back in 1998 ... Read more

My Mini-MusicfestNW

Published 7:00am Tuesday, September 9, 2008

It’s getting harder to come home. Read more

Water Music

Published 7:00am Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Byron AuYong’s collection of story/poems becomes a “semi-guerrilla” opera. Read more

Olympic Music Festival

Published 7:00am Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Three works in the chamber-music repertory are guaranteed standing ovations, whenever and wherever they’re played, thanks to their hurtling, whizbang endings: Schubert’s “Death and the ... Read more

The Crüe Stage a Motley Broadway Musical

Published 7:00am Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Celebrating debauchery in a clean, family-friendly environment. Read more

New Music: Nas, CSS, and The War on Drugs

Published 7:00am Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The War on Drugs Wagonwheel Blues (Secretly Canadian) We’re only halfway through 2008, but Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs claims one of this year’s most ... Read more

Many a struggling musician have looked to their European travels for inspiration,

Published 7:00am Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Many a struggling musician have looked to their European travels for inspiration, and At the Spine’s fourth record, Vita, demonstrates what can happen when a ... Read more

The Melvins Continue to Moon the Music Industry

Published 7:00am Tuesday, July 22, 2008

A seminal “Seattle” grunge band is back at The Showbox. Read more

Pemberton Music Festival

Published 7:00am Tuesday, July 22, 2008

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As often happens with 3 straight days of music, I’m running out

Published 7:00am Sunday, July 20, 2008

As often happens with 3 straight days of music, I’m running out of time for posting (I’m already missing Boris just to get this up, ... Read more

The Master Musicians of Jajouka and Bachir Attar have to cancel their

Published 7:00am Thursday, July 17, 2008

The Master Musicians of Jajouka and Bachir Attar have to cancel their show at Neumo’s on Tuesday because Homeland Security has to make sure they’re ... Read more

The Master Musicians of Jajouka feat. Bachir Attar– CANCELED

Published 7:00am Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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Mamma Mia!: Meryl Streep sings the music of Abba

Published 7:00am Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Sure, it’s nice that the actors sing their own numbers—Meryl Streep has a fab set of pipes, and the fact that Pierce Brosnan sings like ... Read more