This week’s specialty screenings and venues.
How Norm Durkee drives the ZinZanni engine from the keyboard.
Turning the tables on the Evaporators Nardwuar the Human Serviette.
Quasi Field Studies (Up) A winning formula of soaring melody, bitterly wry lyrics, and Sam Coomes’ chiming Roxichord keyboard, a…
The greatest generation vs. the worst.
Now that the House of Representatives has excised Arctic drilling from the budget bill, we can stop worrying about polar…
East River Pipe The Gasoline Age (Merge) Since he recorded the 1996 album Mel on a Tascam ministudio in his…
Rarities from the vaults of Sly Stone, Elliott Smith, and Neutral Milk Hotel.
Also: Overnight, Sex is Comedy.
Disney rediscovers fun amid marketing jungle.
Also: Don’t Move, Head-On, and Twin Sisters.
Polaris, “Hey Sandy” (Polaris; 1999). iTunes Camper Van Beethoven, “Take the Skinheads Bowling” (IRS; 1985). iTunes Supergrass, “Alright” (Capitol; 1995)….
Chances are you’ve passed the Rainbow dozens of times and never noticed it. Perched next to the Blue Moon in…
Caribbean manifesto still carries an irresistible beat.
Omar Sosa is unmellowing with age, or so Ballads 1997–2000 (Ota) suggests. The newly released collection finds the Cuban-born pianist…
Justice may not be swift for the killer of Mia Zapata, but god (and the Miami-Dade court system) willing, it…
Ann Powers argues on behalf of sounding like something else.
The editorialists at Seattle’s dailies are all atwitter over recommendations, issued last week by a coalition of Seattle business community…
This year, a Pride divide— bridged by Dykes on Bikes.
Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Ann Powers and Eric Weisbard of the EMP Pop Music Studies Conference.
