Music Stories [ORGAN JAMZ] When the McMenamin brothers purchased funeral home Little Chapel of the Chimes (open-bar burial services still pending) three years ago, they transformed the North Killingsworth Street la ...   More

Music Stories [PRE-GRUNGE] Different sorts of folks attend reunion shows. Those who delight in Schadenfreude eagerly await chances to compare hair and waistlines from the Class of 1980; some wish to rekindle past m ...   More

Music With the release of second Jicks album Real Emotional Trash (the first with Sleater-Kinney's Janet Weiss) just weeks away, all the indie world's clamoring for a taste of Stephen Malkmus' tuneful musings, and, though Pitchfork got there first, we're honored to share "Baltimore" ...   More

Music Seasonal Affective Disorder, as a genre, rarely extends beyond tweaked Christmas music, but not all stormy weather blows away with the holidays. The lingering, literally-frosted-over post-party malaise deserves its own soundtrack, and, this long winter's fitful nap, may we suggest "Take Me Over Tonight?"
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Music The group was old. No getting around that. Neighborhood stragglers wandering into Slabtown last Saturday wondered about the size of the crowd so late at night, looking to the stage with puzzled delight. It wasn’t a “dad band”; there was no hobbyists’ self-satisfaction, bu...   More

Music Stories The group was old. No getting around that. Neighborhood stragglers wandering into Slabtown last Saturday wondered about the size of the crowd so late at night, looking to the stage with puzzled deligh ...   More

Music It's easy to figure why most music critics—even, especially, "community" obsessed northwest writers (our own very much included)—trash the Dandy Warhols. They specialize in infectious, lyrically available, immediately-explicable pop rendering the critic's job rather beside the point. They freely admit the...   More

Music Location: Aimee Mann's 2nd Annual Christmas Show at the Aladdin Theater, Dec. 5, 2007.

Our wandering correspondent Jay Horton has returned home to spend the holidays with his long-suffering ex, Janet Baker. Whether from sentimentalized memories or Seasonal Affected Disorder, they've developed a troubl...   More

Music [ELECTRO POP&POP PUNK] This must be a joke, right? A fire code-taunting publicity stunt, some hacker’s Make-A-Wish or a trenchant satire of music industry 2.0? Homegrown pop-punk sensation the Thermals caps its annus mirabilis with a free concert at cafe/gamer haven Backspace? ...   More

Music Stories [ELECTRO POP&POP PUNK] This must be a joke, right? A fire code-taunting publicity stunt, some hacker’s Make-A-Wish or a trenchant satire of music industry 2.0? Homegrown pop-punk sensation the T ...   More