AltWeeklies Wire
Here Come the Copsnew
One of Seattle's fastest-rising rock bands Go Wrong in all the right ways.
Seattle Weekly |
Michaelangelo Matos |
01-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Cops, Why Kids Go Wrong
Critics of Varied Tastes Choose Year's Best Musicnew
Seattle Weekly offers "best of 2004" lists for everyone from metalheads to classical music aficionados.
Seattle Weekly |
Music Writers |
01-03-2005 |
Reviews
Highway to Hellnew
Seattle's Himsa unleash their fury on an unsuspecting nation -- just don't call it 'metalcore.'
Seattle Weekly |
Andrew Bonazelli |
11-24-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Restless Hellonew
Bob Dylan revisits the world that made him—in the world he remade.
Seattle Weekly |
Michaelangelo Matos |
11-18-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bob Dylan, Chronicles Volume 1
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
Helmet's Other Mattersnew
A monologue disguised as a conversation disguised as an interview with Page Hamilton.
Seattle Weekly |
Andrew Bonazelli |
10-20-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Helmet, Size Matters
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
Burnt Sugar Create An Aural Melting Potnew
"Black Sex Yall" is hit-or-miss, which you'd expect from a double CD that wears its indulgence on its sleeve.
Seattle Weekly |
Michaelangelo Matos |
09-15-2004 |
Reviews
Move Over, iTunesnew
Two Seattle companies—behemoth Microsoft and startup Chondo—provide an alternative for online music lovers.
Seattle Weekly |
Michaelangelo Matos |
09-15-2004 |
Music
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 Return of Princenew
He strips down everything, including his ego, on his first release since 2001.
Seattle Weekly |
Michaelangelo Matos |
08-25-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Prince, musicology
Exploring Paul Simon's Solo Catalognew
Listening to this compilation CD, it becomes clear that our most nostalgic songwriter has an uneasy relationship with time.
Seattle Weekly |
Neal Schindler |
07-27-2004 |
Reviews
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
Infomatik’s Art-Punk Leaves Early ’80s Behind.new
It's that time-honored bane of all unproven, fledgling bands: Life outside of Infomatik is a synapse-stultifying, endlessly looping Day Job, and Booji Boys are lurking everywhere.
Seattle Weekly |
Andrew Bonazelli |
06-08-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Infomatik
