ARS interview: ZZ Ward talks about her hip hop and blues influences and more

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It seems as though singer-songwriter ZZ Ward has been everywhere for the past year or so. She’s released a mixtape, an EP and LP in 2012, plus has toured almost constantly. Later this afternoon, she’ll kick off the mainstage at Sasquatch and return to Seattle in September for Bumbershoot. But, as Keegan Prosser wrote on these [...]

SIFF interview: Scrapper filmmaker Brady Hall

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“Scrap metal is America’s fourth largest export,” says Hollis Wallace, the central character played by “Sons of Anarchy”‘s Michael Beach in Seattle filmmaker Brady Hall’s excellent new film Scrapper, which just made it’s world premiere Tuesday night at the Seattle International Film Festival. Hollis gets up at 4am each morning to drive around South Seattle (most of Scrapper was [...]

Celebrate ten years of Rainy Dawg Radio Thursday evening

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A sincere, but no less necessary, congratulations are in order to the fine people at Rainy Dawg Radio. The internet radio station run by University of Washington is turning ten years young. And no party, eleven years from drinking age or not, would be complete without a big party. Fortunately, the party takes place tomorrow [...]

Download Katie Kate’s new single “Buffalo”

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ARS friend Katie Kate just released a new single called “Buffalo” that you can download below, or from her Bandcamp page. She’ll be playing a free show on Thursday with Ononos and another favorite of ARS, Don’t Talk to the Cops!, on Thursday at Neumos (8pm doors, 21+).

(Short) SIFF review: Nick Cassavetes’ Yellow

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Yellow, the new (troubled) film from Nick Cassavetes, works because of the strong, (mostly) understated performance from Heather Wahlquist. She plays Mary Holmes, a second grade teacher in Los Angeles who is self-destructive and numbed from taking a bit too many anti-depressants and painkillers. After she loses her job by sleeping with a parent on “parent’s [...]