The Candidate, All The President's Men at SIFF Cinema Tuesday night
The fine people at SIFF Cinema have been showing several classic political films starting last weekend. The series wraps up on Tuesday night with two…
Band breakups, Fall edition: The Trucks, Pleasureboaters
It's always at least a little disappointing when bands breakup and in the past weeks two popular Northwest bands have decided to call it quits.…
Transformer – New Marnie Stern video
There are about four bazillion reasons why I love this video to the single "Transformer" from Marnie Stern's forthcoming 31-worded title album This Is It…
Jamie Lidell at the Showbox at the Market
Jamie Lidell’s show at the Showbox on Saturday night started off really slow. He came out just before 11pm and was twirling an umbrella with…
More Cat Power covers forthcoming
Less than a year after releasing Jukebox, Cat Power's second album of mostly other people's songs, Chan Marshall and company decided that they still haven't gotten that…
Ponytail at Nectar
Ponytail is a noisy pop band from Baltimore that makes abrasive, experimental dance-punk. Their setup is two guitars, drums and singer – no bass. They…
Vote for the beneficiary of this year's Strangercrombie auction on Slog
On Slog the other day a poll was put up to help decide the charity that will be the recipient of this year's annual Strangercrombie…
Don't worry about Palin – she reads every newspaper and magazine
Do you remember the "Celebrity Jeopardy" sketches from "Saturday Night Live"? The ones where Will Ferrell plays an incredulous Alex Trebek who gets so frustrated…
The Cleveland Orchestra and the sad state of arts criticism
I know we've beaten a dead horse with discussions about Pitchfork and their approach to criticism. On the most recent thread about Pitchfork, one reader…
Happy Birthday to the Triple Door!
A very necessary (but no less sincere) Happy Birthday is in order to the Triple Door, who turns five this week.Since the first time I…