Another Rainy Saturday

Now that the Capitol Hill Block Party is in the books, we can turn our attention to Bumbershoot, the festival that takes places over Labor Day weekend at Seattle Center. Yesterday, they unveiled the schedule for the 40th anniversary of the festival. It’s quite an impressive lineup, as it is nearly every year. You can [...]

Spencer Krug has a stage presence that is unequaled. Granted, he’s only half of the Wolf Parade story, but he’s 100 percent of the reason I continue to enjoy the band. Dan Boeckner does a more-than-adequate job when he’s in the lead role, and both Arlen Thompson on drums and Dante DeCaro on keys and [...]

  Photographer Dave Lichterman was there all weekend to capture the Capitol Hill Block Party with his camera for us. Here are some of his always-excellent photos. You can see more here.

In Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man’s Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut, Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield returns with his second autobiography to tell his life story, annotated by songs he loved at the time. With his first book, 2007′s Love is a Mixtape: Life and Loss, One Song [...]

  {Photo by Jason Tang.} Several weeks ago, the very wonderful people from the Columbia City Theater asked me to take part in their weekly “Spin Class” series, which is where they have people active in the music scene to come in and DJ for an evening. My turn will be tomorrow (Thursday, July 29). [...]