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The Pipettes: Brit Revisionists Seek to Overcome the Hegemony of Cock Rock.
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 12, 2007Bananarama, the B-52's, and Phil Spector haunt the band's full-length debut, We Are the Pipettes. Read more
Break Point: Ballard High School’s New Age Tennis Coach and the Bad News Beavers
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 12, 2007The 50-year-old life coach likes to record flute music and tend to organic vegetables. Read more
Getting Slap-Happy and Sappy at the Final Pretty Girls Make Graves Show
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 12, 2007Die young, stay pretty. Read more
A Shot In The Dark
Published 7:00am Thursday, June 7, 2007Hide & Seek The Dynasty Room at the Four Seas is what it is. It will never favor of-the-moment indie rock on its jukebox. It ... Read more
Summer Road Trips, Sans the Car
Published 7:00am Wednesday, June 6, 2007Hop a Groovy Bus to P-Town Itching to get south of the border? Go green on the new biodiesel-powered shuttle. Started last fall by former ... Read more
SIFF 2007: Week Three: Picks and Pans
Published 7:00am Wednesday, June 6, 2007Alive Russia’s been producing some interesting movies about its disastrous military intervention in Chechnya (as we’ll soon be doing about Iraq), but this isn’t one ... Read more
PNB’s Stravinsky Tribute Features Precious Stones and a Stunning Solo
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 5, 2007When Vaslav Nijinsky premiered his choreography to Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in 1913, the story of pagan sacrifice—combined with bizarre costumes and never-seen-before moves—resulted ... Read more
Where to Catch a Great Show, Even When You’re Miles From the Croc
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 5, 2007THERE’S SOMETHING about simply driving past the city-limit sign that’s reinvigorating—an excitement that builds as urban density fades and clumps of brightly lit signs spring ... Read more
Idling With Blake Lewis, Loving Georgetown, and Checking In With City Hall
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 5, 2007Plus plenty of other reasons Seattle nightlife should be spared the chair. Read more
How the Y Chromosome Resulted in the Worst Reviews of Lucinda Williams’ Career
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 5, 2007Male rock critics are from Mars, post-menopausal genius is from Venus. Read more
The Melvins’ Hired Hands In Big Business Can Hardly Contain Themselves
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 5, 2007The annual shitstorm that is Austin’s South by Southwest music conference always offers up some choice imagery, be it dignified record executives puking in the ... Read more
West Side Story Revival: Two Views
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 5, 2007For a musical that strove—with unprecedented vigor—to be timely, to tackle contemporary issues, West Side Story has held up magnificently 50 years after its premiere. ... Read more
Your Essential Concert Calendar
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 5, 2007JUNE 6,7 THE POLICE Offset all that summer lawn watering: A portion of the proceeds from yoga-toned Sting and Co.’s tour will go to WaterAid, ... Read more
New Releases From Handsome Furs, Architecture in Helsinki, and Keren Ann
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 5, 2007Handsome Furs Plague Park (Sub Pop) That it will be at least three years between Wolf Parade albums is enough to make anyone cry. But ... Read more
Beware the Chorizo Stuffer
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 5, 2007Dear Mexican, I was sitting around with my daughter and her Mexican husband the other day talking about her past. Jokingly, I mentioned that when ... Read more
Summer’s Events & Escapes
Published 7:00am Tuesday, June 5, 2007A fairly subjective clip-‘n’-save selection of the season’s major or curiosity-provoking happenings (excluding pop music and outdoor movies). Free except as noted. 8–June 17 NORTHWEST ... Read more
10:32 a.m. Though she’s not scheduled to be interviewed for another half-hour,
Published 7:00am Saturday, June 2, 200710:32 a.m. Though she’s not scheduled to be interviewed for another half-hour, Nancy Pearl arrives downstairs with Lauren Silverberg from Sasquatch Books. “She’s a very ... Read more
Tomorrow, BookExpo, the nation’s largest publishing convention, kicks off in New York’s
Published 7:00am Thursday, May 31, 2007Tomorrow, BookExpo, the nation’s largest publishing convention, kicks off in New York’s Javits Center. This comes soon after the demise of the LA Times Book ... Read more
Gerald Collier Makes Up With the Band He Should Never Have Left
Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 29, 2007Gerald Collier’s career commenced with shiny power-pop outfit Best Kissers in the World, but it was the devastatingly dark and beautiful solo work he did ... Read more
Sasquatch! Wrap-Up, Featuring the Beastie Boys, the Arcade Fire, Björk, and More
Published 7:00am Tuesday, May 29, 2007We paid the price in sunburns for these slideshows and live tracks from the annual festival at the Gorge. Read more