Sigur Ros frontman Jon Thor Birgisson, “Jonsi” will be at the Showbox SoDo on April 9 and 10 touring his new solo album Go. Jonsi has posted a series of “Making of Videos” on his website documenting the production of the show - you can check out the series below. Meanwhile, head over to NPR to listen to the album in its entirety. Thanks, digital media!
PRINCE'S REIGN: Central Cinema will be showing Prince's Purple Rain until Thursday--when they will also include a "Prince and Friends sing-a-long"--maybe in jest of April Fool's Day? We're not quite sure. However, if you're not up for singing along, go tonight and enjoy yourself some fantastic Purple Rain, beers, and stone oven pizza. This is definitely one cult classic that all Prince fans should see in their lifetime (if you haven't a billion times already). more ›
Will you kids please, please sit sill and eat your goddamn carrots and not try to kill each other? Can I not leave town for five effing minutes without the house burning down? Here I am in Nice, on the French Riviera, in a freaking thunderstorm, and I get word that Christina's, the restaurant that put Orcas Island on the map, food-wise, is gone for good. Damn! more ›
DIG IF YOU WILL, A PICTURE: because we'll take any excuse we can to post a picture of Prince, we recommend Central Cinema's showing of Purple Rain tonight. While April 1st's showing is a sing along (!), it can't hurt to get a little refresher course in first. How can you just leave me standing?! more ›
"SCHOOL'S OUT" by STEVE MOHUNDRO from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›
As smaller slaughterhouses go out of business, large corporations begin to dominate the market. The problem with these facilities is that they only operate on a large scale, or under contracts with a limited number of producers. more ›
On first appearance, one might assume that Melissa Febos' new memoir, Whip Smart, is only a story about sex. And granted, the memoir does involve sex--considering that it details Febos' four-year experience or, "secret life," as a dominatrix in a Manhattan sex dungeon--but if you ask the author herself, she'll be the first to tell you that Whip Smart is, "a story about love, identity, getting honest with oneself--all that normal and incredibly difficult human stuff." more ›
This weekend, if you are one who after plenty of warning (a couple of months at least) still didn't buy a ticket to Cask Fest, you are in luck. Today we are proud to point you towards a place with kegs on the bar and another that'll drown you with mead. more ›
This week certainly started off with a bang for author Sherman Alexie, as it was announced on Tuesday that the author's fiction collection, War Dances, had just been selected as the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction--America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction. more ›
THE MAGMA COOLS: After a month of stellar underground, above-board, avant garde, and fuzzed-out shows, Hollow Earth Radio winds down their MAGMA festival with two big blow-out performances. Tonight, Dylan Carlson, Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Ben L. Robertson, Bill Horist, and Derek M. Johnson take over Kenyon Hall. Then, on Saturday, Glacier Saint, Contraband Countryband, I Hate You Just Kidding, and Garth Brooks cover band Ropin' The Wind tunnel out of The Mine. Bring your goggles and facemasks, and don’t eat the ash. Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m. // Kenyon Hall & The Mine // $10 more ›
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