Capitol Hill Block Party 2008: The Cave Singers
The big Seattle afternoon crowd sort of swept up the Cave Singers in their adoring collective arms. Guitarist Derek Fudesco and drummer Marty Lund created…
Capitol Hill Block Party 2008: Pleasureboaters
There is something defiantly wrong about the gassy, pushy skronk of Pleasureboaters, something shared between the band. This isn't the technically intense metal-punk of certain…
Capitol Hill Block Party 2008: Head Like A Kite
I am a huge fan of Head Like A Kite. I don't have their new album, produced by Brian Deck (Iron & Wine, Modest Mouse)…
Capitol Hill Block Party 2008: Thee Emergency
The crowd for previous band Past Lives didn't seem to want to leave. They seemed relaxed, and a little exhausted, as they milled about Neumo's.…
Capitol Hill Block Party 2008: Common Market
Tanned to almost red, lean and intense in all black clothing, RA Scion led Common Market with an angry energy I have never seen from…
Capitol Hill Block Party 2008: The Heavy Hearts
The body-crushing rock and roll slam of The Heavy Hearts ended the first night of the 2008 Capitol Hill Block Party for me, and completely…
Twilight
This is the third album from the Baskervilles, a band who sound lost in the dusky sweetness of New York at the end of the…
Opening tonight at McCaw Hall: A movie full of endless scenes of beautiful people doing weird things
Last Year at Marienbad is a bizarre, utterly challenging French film, made in 1961 by director Alain Resnais, from a script by legendary (and very…
Clearing up some of those rumors about Roman Polanski
If you're someone like me who knows Roman Polanski's caustic brilliance (from "Rosemary's Baby" to "Chinatown" to "The Pianist") but just knew some of the…
Dead Science take part in implied violence
One of my favorite local bands The Dead Science -- if you can call them a band; elegant art terrorist cell is probably more accurate…