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Seattle On Film: The Vanishing (1993)
Years ago, my friend’s crashed car was towed, not to the nearest city, but to North Bend, an exurb about 30 miles from Seattle. Later, my own car broke down outside of North Bend,
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Song of the Day: “Drawing Flies” (1991) by Soundgarden
Soundgarden’s breakthrough album, Badmotorfinger came out the same year as Pearl Jam’s Ten and Nirvana’s Nevermind. It came out the year that, for better or worse, grunge became the new punk rock. We did
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Song of the Day: “Hands All Over” (1989) by Soundgarden
Over the past few years, Seattle’s mighty Soundgarden have come roaring back to life with a tour, a ferocious live document called Live on I-5 and a suitably heavy collection of new material titled
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The Man Comes to Town: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Play the Paramount
…And on the seventh day of April, 2013, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds performed at Seattle’s Paramount Theater like a gang of mad-dog Baptist preachers who decided to start a rock n roll
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Song of the Day: “North to Alaska” (1960) by Johnny Horton
I was in Value Village recently shopping for used underwear, ceramic turtles and broken alarm clocks when this little dandy of a song came on over the sound system. Thanks to the miracle of
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“Hammer Down, Heaven Bound” RIP Jason Molina
When it’s been my ghost on the empty road I think the stars are just the neon lights Shining through the dance floor Of heaven on a Saturday night I saw the light Hammer
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Lemolo (and Swooning While Watching Them Perform Live)
Lemolo have made me swoon since I first saw them perform at last years Capitol Hill Block Party here in Seattle. They are a two woman band who combine sublime vocals, moody keys/synths, haunting
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Paper Machete, The Brambles and Gerhardts Own the Blue Moon Night
Last weekend, three of Seattle’s finest up-and-coming bands shared a bill together at the notorious Blue Moon Tavern. The Blue Moon is the kind of place where adventurous youngsters mix with middle-aged pint-tippers and elders who may
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Staley’s Requiem
Layne Staley never commanded the fanatical devotion of Kurt Cobain, and no one ever breaks the ice by asking what you were doing when you first heard he had died. Even so, I do
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Song of the Day: “Never Let Go” (1992) by Tom Waits
This song first appeared on the soundtrack to a wonderful film called American Heart which stars Jeff Bridges as a gruff ex-jailbird and occasional father to a scrawny, squeaky-voiced kid played by Edward Furlong.
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