G.L.O.S.S.: “Being in the mainstream media, where total strangers have a say in something we’ve created for other queer people, is exhausting.” Rising Olympia-based, queercentric punk group G.L.O.S.S. have broken up, according to maximumrocknroll.com. The news comes two weeks after the band made headlines for rejecting large indie label Epitaph’s $50,000 record deal. G.L.O.S.S.’s members […]
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Bumbershoot’s Highs and Lows: From Tyler the Creator’s Hectoring Raps to Reggie Watts’ Buttery Soul
Tame Impala fans at Memorial Stadium, going to heaven. Josh Bis Content warning: There are as many Bumbershoot recaps as there are Bumbershoot attendees. Here’s another one to file in your memory banks/confirm your biases/boil your blood. FRIDAY 9/2 Tyler, the Creator: “Profanity? I shan’t dare.” Josh Bis Wearing a golf shirt, ballcap, and yellow […]
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Miss Sharon Jones! and the Test of Time
Want another documentary about a musician overcoming great adversity to achieve glittering critical and modest commercial success? Possibly not, but you should make room in your callous heart for director Barbara Kopple’s Miss Sharon Jones! The titular subject is a powerful vocalist who merits your respect and attention, regardless of whether or not you’re a […]
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Kicking Cancer’s Ass with Miss Sharon Jones!
Make Room in Your Callous Heart for Another Feel-Good Documentary!
Make room in your callous heart for another feel-good documentary!
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Bumbershoot Helpfully Announces Daily Schedule for 2016 Fest
Pick a day, any day! The 46th annual Bumbershoot—which happens at Seattle Center September 2-4— has presented its day-by-day schedule, which you can view here. Friday’s looking good on the Seattle front with hiphop subversive DoNormaal, wry rockers Chastity Belt, power-pop pros STAG, and lush R&B unit Fly Moon Royalty. Further thrills can be found […]
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Radiohead Have a Big Treat for Fans at Record Stores Worldwide June 17
The special rich-person version of A Moon Shaped Pool, which contains 32 pages of artwork, two LPs, two CDs, MP3s or WAVs, and a Thom Yorke eyelash. On June 17—the day their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool, comes out—the very popular and autonomous British rock band Radiohead will be featuring a “day-long audio stream, […]
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Shill Yr Idols—Thurston Moore Cuts Benefit Song for Bernie Sanders’s Campaign
Contribution is sex; Thurston Moore feels the Bern. Cover art by David Kloc Former Sonic Youth guitarist/vocalist and avant-rock icon Thurston Moore has recorded a benefit song for Bernie Sanders‘s presidential campaign called “Feel It in Your Guts.” In an arrangement with the Joyful Noise Recordings label, the release came out yesterday on square white […]
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Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Death Cab for Cutie Will Head Bumbershoot’s Music Lineup After All
Nobody here sounds remotely like Negativland. Well, that supposedly illegitimate Bumbershoot lineup that was circulating on social media earlier this month turned out to be legit. (Good thing I used “Probably” in the header.) As it turns out, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Death Cab for Cutie, and KYGO will be headlining the annual arts festival, […]
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Never Mind Nirvana, Here’s No Seattle
Collecting the Northwest’s Hidden Rock Legacy
You may think you know grunge history, but you don’t No Seattle.
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Man Runs a Sub-5-minute Mile While Downing 4 Beers
Yeah, this may seem like a fratboy stunt, but have you run a 5-minute mile while not drinking beer? Thought not. James Nielsen bust out a 4:57 mile while chugging a can of the stuff before completing each of four laps of the track. Granted, it was Budweiser, but still… It’s a remarkable feat. (I […]
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The Accidental Anti-Diva
Anika Takes Dub into an Odd Future
Anika’s weird dub-pop hybrids reach a new peak.
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Platform Boots on the Beach
Ty Segall Gets Out of the Garage
Segal on Segall: Everybody must get Ty.