Recommended show + free tickets: Hotels CD release at Columbia City Theater this Friday {4/27}
Seattle post-punk(ish) new wave band Hotels just released their latest EP Cinemascope I, the first of a series of three EPs that the band plan…
Recommended Film Event: NIFFTY Music Video Mixtape {4/28}
Nothing like a mini-film festival in April to get us prepped for both STIFF and SIFF, which arrive in May. NFFTY (pronounced “Nifty”) is the…
Recommended Show: M83 at the Paramount Theater {4/26}
The past year has been a big year for Anthony Gonzalez, the mastermind behind M83: he relocated from his native France to Los Angeles, worked…
Recommended Show: Prom Queen CD Release at The Can Can {4/24}
Prom Queen, the newest solo project by my pretty friend Leeni, has a lush 60s-esque sound that started as covers and has now evolved into…
Recommended Show(s) + free tickets: Matthew Sweet Girlfriend Tour at The Triple Door {4/25-26}
If you listened to radio at all in the 90s, you couldn't escape hearing Matthew Sweet's swirling guitar-filled, gets-stuck-in-your-head, bouncy hit "Girlfriend". And if you…
Natural Selection
{Natural Selection opened in Seattle Friday, 4/13, and is screening at SIFF Cinema at the Uptown through 4/19} Natural Selection is one of those indie-darling…
Celebrate Friday the 13th with BOAT, Bottomless Pit (ex-Silkworm), Police Teeth, the Bismarck
Happy Friday the 13th {April, 2012 edition}!!! There are so many reasons to be happy today: - It's Friday! - We've been promised that tomorrow…
This Is Not a Film
I've been wanting to see This Is Not a Film since hearing about it last year when it premiered at Cannes. Smuggled out of Iran…
The Round 83: Damien Jurado, Jonathan Russell and friends
I'm almost not quite sure how to begin recounting last night's show at the Fremont Abbey {Round #83, with Damien Jurado, The Head and the…
Mike Doughty: The Book Of Drugs
The short version: I saw Mike Doughty perform a few songs and read from his recently-published The Book Of Drugs at the Triple Door this…