AltWeeklies Wire
General Practitionersnew
If your indie rock 'n' roll aches, go see the Can't See.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
04-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Can't See
Tongue-Twister Disguised as a Novelnew
Niederhoffer uses baseball metaphors and twin cliches to slowly tease out the process of natural selection.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
02-01-2006 |
Fiction
Railing Against Rolling Stonenew
Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with Rockrgrl magazine founder Carla DeSantis.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
11-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Woman at Warnew
A former military-intelligence sergeant of the 101st Airborne Division writes of her year in Iraq.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
10-05-2005 |
Nonfiction
Castles Made of Guitarsnew
Chicago rockers the Ponys dodge the sophomore slump.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
05-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The Ponys, Celebration Castle
Girlie Winesnew
No one ever went broke marketing anything to women, so I wasn't surprised to open an e-mailed press release and read about Rainier Wine's new "female-targeted" "lifestyle" brands.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
03-16-2005 |
Food+Drink
David Byrne ♥ PowerPointnew
Appearing in Seattle, Byrne jokingly referred to himself as a stand-up comedian, but the seminal musician is unapologetically seduced by the medium's immediacy and charmingly lo-fi properties.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
03-09-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
An Italian Duo Speaks the Lingua Franca of Psych Rocknew
Jennifer Gentle aren't the first or only foreign band to write and sing in English, of course. But of the present-day ESL practitioners working within the psychedelic pop patois, they're certainly the most fun.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
02-03-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jennifer Gentle, Valende
Bridget Behind Bars!new
Desperate to propel a plot when chemistry doesn't work, this sequel puts its heroine through the wringer. Female viewers may feel similarly abused.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
11-10-2004 |
Reviews
Trying to Make Sense of Elliott Smith's Final Albumnew
Songs From a Basement on the Hill feels like the natural progression of a gifted and obsessed musical mind with more and more resources at its disposal—and more and more time to fiddle with them, and more and more drugs to fuel the fiddling.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
10-20-2004 |
Reviews
The New Psychedelic Classnew
While Ben Chasny, Joanna Newsom, and folks like Devendra Banhart and the band Sunburned Hand of the Man aren't asking the lyrical question, "Where have all the flowers gone?" there is a palpable spirit of '60s politics in their ethos.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
09-29-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Eddie Vedder's African Connectionnew
The rocker helps a South African youth choir sing the songs of Pearl Jam.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
09-15-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: eddie vedder
The Accessible Improv of Saxophonist Wally Shoupnew
Genre names are a bitch. But Wally Shoup, the saxophonist whose 1981 LP Scree-Run Waltz was one of the first free-improv recordings to be independently produced in America, avoids naming his by referring to the maze of sounds as “this music.”
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
06-16-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Confluxus, Wally Shoup
