Music This time last year, The Builders and the Butchers had scored—and had to turn down—a spot at PDX Pop Now! 2007. But the invite was probably the coolest thing that had happened to them as a band until that point.

Fast-forward a year, and the band just got done playing ...   More

Music There is no Seattle Pop Now! festival.

Portland may not have a festival as large and significant as Bumbershoot, but Seattle doesn't have an all-local showcase like Portland does. What they do have is the Capitol Hill Block Party, which was going on at the same time as the first two ...   More

News It's strange to see Eddie Izzard out of make-up, in a pair of jeans. The English comedian's built a reputation based almost as much on his cross-dressing as on his Monty Python-esque non-sequituring all over the place. But that's how ...   More

Books Comics and music. On the surface, they seem a strange combination—it’s not like you can weld music to print the way you can build a soundtrack into a film. Still, in the past few years the ...   More

Music You almost expect to hear a faint trace of static dusting Run On Sentence’s songs. The band’s music—a mixture of swing, blues and folk often embellished with Spanish trumpets, subtly Latin rhythms, even yodeling—sounds like something coming out of a phonograph horn a century ago. Even the lyr...   More

Music Stories You almost expect to hear a faint trace of static dusting Run On Sentence’s songs. The band’s music—a mixture of swing, blues and folk often embellished with Spanish trumpets, subtly ...   More

Special Section WHO: Ritchie Young, Scott Magee, Laurel Simmons, Heather Broderick, Jade Eckler, Amanda Lawrence, Dave Depper, Pia Da Silva (plus Heather Broderick and Jason Leonard when they aren’t busy with H ...   More

Music However you spent your Monday night on April 7, there's a 95% likelihood that you would've had more fun watching Tim Fite at Mississippi Studios. But that's sort of a given—Fite puts on one of the strangest and most enjoyable live shows you're ever likely to see.

Fite is som...   More

Music [SYNTH POP] Since 2002, they’ve been living among us, observing the inanities of life here on “Planet Zero”—NASCAR, low-rider Honda Civics, the band Creed—and reporting back to their superior officer via catchy synth-pop tunes. But Hello Lobster recently announ...   More

Music Stories [SYNTH POP] Since 2002, they’ve been living among us, observing the inanities of life here on “Planet Zero”—NASCAR, low-rider Honda Civics, the band Creed—and reporting b ...   More