World Extreme Pencil Fighting Championship… now with music
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVUXAiMnU5A] This Thursday, May 20 Seattle fans of music mixing it up with extreme sports should head to The Funhouse to see the next round…
Nothing Hurts
For fans of their split 7 " with the Dum Dum Girls (track "Before It's Gone" not included here), Dalston, Great Britain-spawned three piece Male…
Redwood Plan, The Shondes, The Young Evils & Mal De Mer this Thursday, May 13 at The Crocodile
If you are a fan of smartly written music that wallops with chutzpah and high energy, and were to ask for the line up coming…
Grey Oceans
Grey Oceans sounds like a night in the desert, which makes sense, as CocoRosie's fourth full length is released after Sierra and Bianca Casady moved…
World Record
Blunt Mechanic is a great name for a band shedding the viscosity of main dude Ben Barnett's basement bawl over gobs of releases as Kind…
Bat Country has a new video and plays out Friday, May 7 at The Mix
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORz8pNJbryQ] Bat Country is the latest band of Bill Bullock, one of my very favorite songwriters/performers in Seattle, who fronted protest punk band Mea Culpa…
The Decemberists' Colin Meloy to write children's books for HarperCollins
Most TIG readers realize that Colin Meloy knows his way with a fetching narrative whether in song (on oodles of albums by his band The…
The Brutalist Bricks
"If there's one place where you're scared, it's a bunker." So said urbanist, art critic, and political theorist Paul Virilio in an interview in a…
Win tickets to see Head Like A Kite at Neumos {album release show} on May 21
Seattle soul-rock noir band Head Like A Kite has a new album called Dreams Suspend Night out at iTunes starting this week, but CDs will…
Michael Kupperman and Jim Woodring art exhibitions & signings coming up in May at Fantagraphics
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lGe8ePQzqA] Fantagraphics (the publisher) has announced a couple of frantic hype-worthy meet-the-artist shows coming up at Fantagraphics (the store) in the next few weeks. Michael…