It's Kind of Creepy To Know People: Comedy at Bumbershoot
Two of the VERY BEST things about Bumbershoot is finding new performing artists (whether it be music, comedy, literary folks, theatre, or otherwise) you wouldn't…
"Angstspiration": YA Fiction the New Punk Rock
Young adult fiction is the new punk rock it seems, as the realism-based and sometimes magic realism-sweetened stories of Francesca Lia Block, Ellen Hopkins, and…
A'cappella SHEISM From Lit-Preacher Firebrand Christa Bell
At 7 PM last night at the Leo K. Theatre near Lower Queen Anne at the Bumbershoot Festival, a loud, proud, beautiful, sonorous black woman…
Bumbershoot kicks off with a dose of Portland and Seattle comedy
The Vera Project sponsored (with the Seattle Times) the stand-up kick off of Portland and Seattle comedians together at 1:15 PM today on the very…
Through The Bloody Channels, We Raise Our Sails
Kane Hodder are one of those bands I've known about for a long time, but never experienced. That's a terrible thing to admit, because they…
There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere
The sophomore release from Head Like A Kite sounds like a mix-tape of rare, alternate twelve inch versions of radio smashes from a DJ who…
The Dro Bots Saga: A mindblowing (and free) 16-min mash up
As a fan of most of the stuff in this 16-minute "Free Bird" for the hip-hop mash-up generation I can identify, this has made my…
Thigmotactic
Negativland has a huge backstory as post-situationist pranksters and pop culture satirists and sound collage mayhem-makers that I'm going to skip for the most part.…
Villainaire
Probably the most cosmopolitan-level avant-garde rock band to ever come out of Seattle, The Dead Science present their fourth album, Villainaire. Tours through Europe and…
Tonight Karl Blau opens For Mt. Eerie at the Vera Project
Secretly famous veteran of D+ and Phil Elverum collaborator and Kelp Lunacy music subscription creator and subterranean legend of Anacortes Karl Blau comes to Seattle…