Friday Mixtape of guitar music inspired by and featuring footage from a Nels Cline & Julian Lage performance at Seattle’s Royal Room.
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TONIGHT: Tubaluba Brass Band at McMenamins
Tonight! Tubaluba Brass Band from Seattle will bring a cajun big band vibe to McMenamins. The Source caught up with Josh Wilson about the band, their influences, and what they want folks to take away form their high-energy shows. Check them out at McMenamins TONIGHT! 7 pm, FREE. Source Weekly: Can you give me a […]
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How to Steel Your Record Collection
Smokey Brights picked up influence and more from old-school tastes
Ryan Devlin is a record bandit, though not a malicious one. All of his admitted record thievery happened when he was a kid, discovering musical tastes from his parents’ and others’ dusty record bins. “I took Joe Jackson Look Sharp when I was in forth or fifth grade and was learning how to play bass […]
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Introspective Empowerment
Naomi Wachira’s inspirational folk music
Originally from Kijabe, Kenya, Naomi Wachira’s velvety alto and unpredictable vocal lines over her folky wholesome guitar strumming reflect her musical upbringing and African homeland. “My dad was a pastor and when I was 5 I became a member of their singing group where we traveled to different churches in Kenya,” explained Wachira. “My mom […]
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PICK: Seattle Funk Band Down North
tuesday 19 Down North FUNK—If GoodLife’s roof had a patio, this Seattle-based funk band would tear it off. The group that managed to turn out a funk-phobic music writer for the Stranger brings an old school flavor to the genre that birthed some of music’s greats. From throbbing, syncopated base lines to funky flourishes and […]
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Double-Crossed by the Department of Justice
Five years ago, the DOJ screwed over a pot dealer in a case
that’s now undermining America’s ability to extradite other international fugitives
David Mendoza first realized something was off in the summer of 2006, when he was rear-ended by a US mail truck. He had been driving through Portland, headed south toward Bend, where his construction company—called ETA because of Mendoza’s reputation for being late—was restoring the historic Liberty movie palace, which Mendoza had purchased a few […]
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Good Day Sunshine
Susy Sun, Seattle’s anti-rain
Susy Sun has a particularly ironic name. After all, she lives in Seattle, a city with a gray cloud ceiling that lasts through nine months of the year. And that’s not the only incongruity: Her particularly squeaky-clean pop outlook contrasts with the rugged, folky alt-country that is at the heart of the Seattle indie scene […]
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Out of Town 2/26-3/6
portland friday 28 Steve-O Self-deprecation is the hallmark of good stand-up and “professional idiot” Steve-O takes it to the next cringe-worthy level. The masochistic stuntman of Jackass fame may have given up booze and beef, but he’s still beating himself up in other ways. Past on-stage stunts have included setting his head on fire and […]
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Out of Town
seattle sunday 2 The Super Bowl The Seahawks take on the Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII (that’s 48 for those not up to snuff on their Roman numerals). Who will win? Who will lose? Who will go nuts on camera and give the world its next viral video? How will cornerback Richard Sherman offend half […]
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Out of Town 1/22 —1/30
seattle friday 24 Krar Collective and Gabriel Teodros The krar is a lyre native to Ethiopia, its psychedelic, tinny-sounding six strings creating a smooth melodic background similar to its sitar cousin. The Krar Collective is a London-based trio with Addis Abada roots which creates what Seattle’s The Stranger describes as a “gorgeous tornado of Ethiopian […]
