Single Spotlight: The Purrs' "Rotting On The Vine" b/w "You, The Medicine and Me"
Seattle's melodic and menacing The Purrs have a new 45 single out, their first for esteemed new local label Fin Records. It arrived on this…
Love's Not Impossible: My Top Ten Songs of 2012
We had to have some good tunes to get us through a year of watching a psychopathic plutocrat trying to pitch us back into the…
The Comedy will be adored by dark-hearted '70s cinema misfits {at SIFF, 12/7}
{The Comedy opens in Seattle on Friday, December 7, and is screening at the SIFF Film Center} Director Rick Alverson is in a band called…
FYI: What I'd love for you to know about John Cale and Graham Parker
{John Cale is playing the Showbox at the Market on Thursday, December 6, 2012, with Cass McCombs. Graham Parker is starring in the upcoming Judd…
Fall rotation: The Pharmacy, The Coup, Dum Dum Girls, Doug Stanhope, King Tuff
Autumn is a favorite, TIG-cherished time of year, but that isn't necessarily good for new music for me: I am a sentimental bastard and tend…
Come see and hear the history of the Carter Family at the Hugo House this Monday {10/8}
On Monday, October 8 at 7:00 p.m., the Richard Hugo House, writer Frank M. Young, and artist David Lasky will be presenting The Carter Family:…
Pay attention to the soul-shaking ideas of Simone Weil at the Northwest Film Forum {9/24-27}
{The Seattle premiere of An Encounter with Simone Weil is at The Northwest Film Forum Monday, 9/24, and it screens through Thursday, 9/27. The Thursday showing includes…
Bill W.: A fascinating doc about the A.A. founder
"Bill W." was a synthesizer. A human synthesizer, that is, someone who took an analogue expression and somehow craftily made something needed out of it…
Bumbershoot 2012: Still fighting it out in my head, but I saw lots of neat stuff!
Whoa. Three days of Bumbershoot and one day afterwards got lost there. So here I am, dazed but plowing ahead like Pee Wee on his…
Bumbershoot 2012: Fighting it out in my head! What do I choose to see?!
Bumbershoot is a large, chilled, blue raspberry drink of piping-hot entertainment, if that makes any sense. This year seems particularly well thought out for taste…