'Tis the season for celebrated mythology: The Secret History of Rock 'N' Roll
Christopher Knowles is the author of the recently published book The Secret History of Rock 'N' Roll, which ties the rock-era music scene back to…
Seattle art god Art Chantry to delight Damaged Goods patrons with his beautiful artwork starting this Friday {12/10}
(This Friday, December 10, from 6 to 9 p.m., Damaged Goods will be throwing a party for influential from-the-underground arts and music scene picador Art…
20 words each on 11 of the Best Releases of 2010
{Shabazz Palaces photo from the Three Imaginary Girls Flickr Pool by Jason Tang} Through sheer quirk of fate and possibly my own fatally quirky tastes,…
Freak out "Medieval Thinkers" at Fantagraphics 4th Anniversary Party {12/11}
Seattle-based, world-slobbered, excellent comics and dazzling-arts publisher Fantagraphics is really going all out for their 4th Anniversary Party this Saturday, December 11, 2010. It will…
The Grand Theatre Volume One
***Come listen to this entire Old 97s record with us at this Sunday's Imaginary Crafternoon Listening Party! Three Imaginary Girls is hosting a free, all…
Peter Hook from Joy Division to play all of post-punk masterpiece 'Unknown Pleasures' at the Market/Showbox on Dec 7
It's the album cover that has inspired possibly the coolest t-shirt in rock music history. Peter Hook is taking Unknown Pleasures out on the road…
Cobirds Unite
It's charming to consider what recent gig-attending fans of Frank Black, Chrissie Hynde, and Bob Mould who first get to hear Rusty Willoughby and Rachel…
Barbara Manning brings twang and dazzle to the Sunset this Friday, December 3
[video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez6g-wrtDHs] {Barbara Manning, Can You Imagine?, and headliners Midday Veil play The Sunset this Friday, December 3rd, 2010.} Barbara Manning currently lives in Chico,…
The Promise
If you're an indie pop fan but the concert marathon-long face of the Bruce canon and cult has put you off, you're in luck: The…
Deep Focus: Books on They Live and Death Wish give you lots to think about and geek out on
Deep Focus is a new line of small but richly rewarding studies, the first one about a favorite film by a great writer, Christopher Sorrentino.…