Critics' Picks
[SAMPLEDELIA] + FRI, AUG. 8 The duo of Francisco y Madero is comprised of two dudes who met through MySpace and collaborated from hundreds of miles apart - Jesse Sylvester in San Francisco and Carlos Pesina in Guadalajara, Mexico. Despite the piecemeal approach they had to forming their band, their music
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In The Last Waltz, the Band describes how they landed on their nondescript name. After trying out on-the-nose names such as the Honkies, and being in the middle of a typhoon of bands named things like Strawberry Alarm Clock, the Electric Prunes, and the Chocolate Watchband, Robbie Robertson and company
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The concept: Ask a question and have it answered by a randomly chosen song, like a musical tarot card. Andras Jones created Radio8Ball in 1998 on KAOS in Olympia. Now, he is producing it as a local TV series (for the web, for now) with Olympia Film Collective. The episodes are
Music
OK, word association: What are the first images and sounds that come to your mind when you hear the word "metal" in reference, of course, to music. Give yourself a little time. OK, now let's do it again with the term "Puget Sound metal." I'd be willing to bet dollars
Features
Enough with the praise, it's time for some tough love. Today, I feel like bitching and you're the only one who's paying attention to me right now, so you're going to get an earful. Or an eyeful. Whatever. I could give a shit if they fire me from the Weekly Volcano.
Archives
Keeping up with the Joneses is a bitch. So when the owners of Mary’s Burger Bistro chose the noted Pacific Avenue for their new location, they had some big shoes to fill. After delaying the opening more than two weeks, the new burger joint finally debuted last Wednesday, and of
Food Matters
MATADOR AND WILDFIRES Matador Restaurant and Tequila Bar has partnered with local organization Band of Brothers Northwest to help raise funds to assist victims of the Eastern Washington wildfires. Thursday, August 7 from 11 a.m. to close, Matador restaurants - including the downtown Tacoma location - will be donating 100 percent
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE NOW Halie Loren Seattle. Aug. 26-27 7:30 pm. $20.50 (Jazz Alley, jazzalley.com) Keiko Matsui Seattle.
Show And Tell
Richard Linklater spent 12 years making this week's movie. He filmed a small piece of the film each year to allow the cast to age naturally onscreen. He isn't the first director to do something like this. In 1994, Danish director Lars von Trier started filming Dimension, shooting a three-minute
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The Gregarious Oranges may have a name that calls to mind the psychedelia of the late '60s, but their sound recalls a period in music that came almost a decade earlier. Drawing from the Merseybeat sound of the early '60s - which included early Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers and
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It is always a treat to be part of a movement - to catch an artist during their incline rather than having to vomit your way through a decline (see: Ja Rule, that was a hard one to sit through). Saturday, you may see a young, up-and-coming rapper before he
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The duo of Francisco y Madero is comprised of two dudes who met through MySpace and collaborated from hundreds of miles apart - Jesse Sylvester in San Francisco and Carlos Pesina in Guadalajara, Mexico. Despite the piecemeal approach they had to forming their band, their music resonates with a form
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Coven. What does that word do for you? Does it evoke images of darkness, figures shrouded by mystery and ritual? What does it smell like? Dank, dark and bloody? What does it sound like? In this case, Coven, the thrash metal band that dominated the late '80s and early '90s
