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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Music / Drugs / Film Tonight at SIFF: A Quadrophonic Restoration of Tommy
Posted by David Schmader on Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Tonight, SIFF Cinema at the Uptown screens Ken Russell-and-the Who's Tommy, and here are Stranger film intern Amy Scott's reasons why you should go see it.
Referring to Tommy, the musical album, Steve Knopper in Kill Your Idols writes, “The central maddening contradiction of Tommy is it retains musical power because it makes no sense,” and this also applies to Ken Russell’s adaptation, which adds even more breadth to the story's confusion via picture power, with a thick and buttery spread of surrealism.
Reasons to get stoned and watch Tommy:
9) Quadraphonic restoration, SIFF better REPRESENT
1) Ken Russell
7) Tina Turner’s rendition of “The Acid Queen” is AH-MAZING complete with the grooviest bass-line ever, gigantic needles, red platform shoes and a Darth Vader helmet.
11) Russell updates the album’s time period, placing it in 1951, then outfitting it with kaleidoscopic psychedelic imagery and 70s décor
17) Ann-Margret’s champagne, chocolate and baked beans bubble bath and phallic-pillow humping.
546) Roger Daltrey is the most convincing deaf, dumb, and blind kid, ever. His “huh” face after “Christmas,” gets a good ten-seconds of camera love before the slow zoom-out to an awkwardly-robed Eric Clapton
200) “Smash the Mirror” is PERFECT in all of its confetti glass. The song is combined with “I’m Free,” (instead of “Sensation”) and Daltrey waddles haphazardly—on water/through fire, plus upside-down camera angles, carnival-sounding synths, and Pinball worship
5) Keith Moon as “Uncle Ernie”
9) Jack Nicholson sings quietly and winks in time with the music
12) KEN RUSSELLPlus many more.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Music / Sports So Say Seattle DOES Finally Get a Hockey Team
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:51 PM
What do you think this team's goal song should be? Discuss over here! (Because it's gonna have to be better than what the Nashville Predator's have got.)
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Music Sasquatch 2012 Lineup
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:58 PM
Music / Homo Gregoire Rocks Out to Marriage Equality
Posted by Dominic Holden on Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Awww. It's a a nice spot, and kudos to the governor. But whoever did the music should be punished by being forcibly gay-married to Donald Trump.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Music / Nightlife / Books Today Is the Last Day of January, Which Means Tomorrow's the First Wednesday of the February, Which Means It's Time Again for the Reading Party!!
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:45 AM
This month we're doing a theater theme, with special guests David Schmader and Sarah Rudinoff. As always, they will just sit there and read whatever they like, silently, to themselves, just like you, while Kyle O'Quin plays classical music on the piano.
Schmader is The Stranger's longtime Last Days columnist and a theater-maker whose new show, A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem, closes this weekend at Richard Hugo House (click here to get tickets). Rudinoff is a Genius Award-winning actress currently in rehearsals for a new thriller written by Keri Healey called Torso, which runs March 9-March 31 at Theatre Off Jackson.
The silent-reading party happens in the Fireside Room at the Sorrento Hotel, it starts at 6 pm, it's all ages, it's free, and the drink special is a $5 Manhattan. More on how weirdly fun it is right here.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Music Happy Birthday, Vera!
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:29 PM
The Vera Project turns 11 today! Which has caused me to fall under a nostalgia-filled daze while I recall some of the best shows I've seen there over the last decade and one year. What have been some of your favorite Vera Project memories? Share them here.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
City / Music Big News at Seattle Symphony
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Music A Very Important Saturday Afternoon Poll: Which Band, of These Three Bands, Is the Worst Band?
Posted by Megan Seling on Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:30 PM
Kiss, the Doors, or Red Hot Chili Peppers? Vote here!
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Music Do You Know Who Wrote the Song "Manic Monday?"
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:45 PM
I did not know until today! SHOCKING!
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Music Jessica's First Hardcore Song
Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:35 PM
What does an eight-year-old girl sing about in her first hardcore song? Her pet goldfish and dog, of course.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Music / The Weather Slayer Snowman!
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:00 PM
So this is what happens when metal fans play in the snow.
Music When It's Time to Party We Will Party Hard!
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Andrew W.K.'s I Get Wet anniversary tour is coming to Seattle in March!
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Music / Film What Does the Song "Hello" Sound Like When Pieced Together Using Lines From Famous Movies?
Posted by Megan Seling on Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:08 AM
Find out here. (It's pretty awesome.)
Monday, January 16, 2012
Music / Sports Attention Hockey Fans: Alexander Ovechkin Is In a Russian Music Video (and He RAPS)
Posted by Megan Seling on Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:08 AM
See Ovi in action here.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Booze / Music Whiskey Sounds Nice Today...
Posted by Grant Brissey on Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 1:08 PM
Megan Seling has compiled a long list of bands with the word "whiskey" in their name, all with links. Enjoy this list here.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Etiquette / Horrors / Music / Tech That Damnable I-Phone Marimba Ringtone
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 8:50 AM
It echoes through the mind while reading this, whereas how many of us can instantly hear Mahler’s Ninth in our heads? (Not me.)
And an UPDATE with an explanation and apology from the front-row-seated culprit.
Thanks, Greg.
And thanks, stinkbug!
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Music Read Jen Graves's Profile on New Seattle Symphony Flutist Demarre McGill
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:55 PM
- Kelly O
Demarre McGill's first name is pronounced "de-MAR-ay," and on the day I meet him near Benaroya Hall, he is dressed like a prep-school success with the slightest extra flash. He's an easy talker, polite, focused, and with a smile, like his mother's, that spreads the width of his face. "They almost named me Demarrio! Then I'd have had to be an R&B singer," he says, laughing. "I'd have made it work." He's interested in classical music as music, not as "the finest music," he says, and tells me that his regimen for auditions includes choosing an anthem he plays before and after tryouts. For Seattle, it was Lupe Fiasco's "The Show Goes On." "So thanks, Lupe—who's from Chicago, by the way," he says.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Music See New Videos from Death Cab for Cutie and Damien Jurado
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:25 PM
Damien Jurado's new videos is kind of scary while Death Cab's is pretty sad. Watch at your own risk.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Music Radiohead, Elvis Costello, Neutral Milk Hotel Founder Jeff Mangum, and Black Keys Have All Announced Seattle Shows This Week
Posted by Grant Brissey on Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Monday, January 9, 2012
Music It's Time to Start Speculating About Who's Playing Sasquatch
Posted by Megan Seling on Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:23 PM
It was just announced that the Sasquatch! line-up will be released February 2nd, which means we have a few weeks to fill the rumor mill with all sorts of speculation! Discuss who you think is playing the festival (and who you would want to see play the festival) right over here with all the other music nerds.
Music / Film Kim Novak Is an Asshole
Posted by David Schmader on Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Featured on the soundtrack of the 2011 film The Artist is music from Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo—and Vertigo co-star Kim Novak is pissed. From the press release and trade ad Novak's produced to express her fury, courtesy of Deadline Hollywood:
“I want to report a rape,” said Kim Novak, the legendary star of “Vertigo,” “Picnic,” and many other revered classics. “My body of work has been violated by ‘The Artist.’ This film took the Love Theme music from “Vertigo” and used the emotions it engenders as its own. Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart can’t speak for themselves, but I can. It was our work that unconsciously or consciously evoked the memories and feelings to the audience that were used for the climax of ‘The Artist’....It is morally wrong of people in our industry to use and abuse famous pieces of work to gain attention and applause for other than what the original work was intended. It is essential that all artists safeguard our special bodies of work for posterity, with their individual identities intact and protected."
Even stupider: Novak's manager admits to Deadline Hollywood that The Artist "had the legal right to use the music."
Here's hoping Ms. Novak is never forced to learn firsthand exactly how ridiculous her claim of "rape" is. (But I wouldn't mind if someone hit her in the face with a pie.)
Friday, January 6, 2012
Music 12 Local Bands I'm Excited About in 2012
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Have you noticed? For 12 days I'm highlighting 12 local bands that will probably be doing really great things in 2012. So far my list includes Black Breath, Grenades, Boom City, and Special Explosion. If these names mean nothing to you, I suggest you spend the last hour of your workday ignoring that to-do list and saying hello to some of your noise-making neighbors.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Music Top 10 NW Music for the Week of 1/2- 1/6 [sic], as Compiled By Seattle Office of Film + Music
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:27 PM
We had a white Christmas after all!
Music / Money US Music Sales Increased 6.9% in 2011
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Dig in right over here if you like to do that sort of thing!
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Music OH MY GOD: Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen, Thao & Mirah Cover “Push It”
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:20 PM
And it is the best thing I've seen all year.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Music / Theater Coming Back to Avenge Herself: Carrie!
Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:47 AM
One of many reasons to celebrate the coming year, from the NYT:
Two musicals that flopped on Broadway in the 1980s but went on to become cult legends—the stage adaptation of the novel “Carrie” and the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth heartbreaker “Merrily We Roll Along”—will receive important revivals in New York this winter.
The original creators of “Carrie” have rewritten the book and composed several new songs in hopes of rescuing the musical from Broadway ignominy, suffered in 1988 when their $7 million blood-soaked production freaked out critics and closed after 21 performances. The revival will have minimal special effects—which the creators saw as overwhelming the Broadway production—and will try to tap into societal concerns about teenage bullying.
The Off Broadway company MCC Theater is producing the revival, which starts performances on Jan. 31, and stars Molly Ranson in the title role and Marin Mazzie as Carrie’s mother...
The original Broadway production of Carrie was such a travesty it became the standard-bearer for musical travesties. I can't wait to hear about the new production.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Music Is Cee Lo Green Changing the Lyrics to "Imagine" Really So Bad?
Posted by Megan Seling on Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:55 AM
You might've heard, Cee Lo green covered Lennon's "Imagine" but changed one line of the song. Read all about it (and vote in the official poll) here!
Friday, December 30, 2011
Music Listen to All the Songs Line Out Readers Listened to Over and Over and Over Again
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:23 PM
Make your Friday even brighter with over two hours of music, approved by all the music-lovers at Line Out!
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Music I Can Sometimes Get Obsessed With a Song
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:40 PM
Example: Here's a song I listened to over 100 times in 2011.
What song did you fall in love with this year? Tell me all about it here.
Want to See the Wu-Tang Clan or Fitz & the Tantrums for Free?
Posted by Megan Seling at 12:53 PM in Music
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Intern Exposes Own Mother's Band to the Potential Scorn of Trolls; Trolls Stand Down
Posted by Grant Brissey at 5:08 PM in Music / Teh Internets
Monday, December 26, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Tim Minchin's Woody Allen Jesus: Too Blasphemous for British TV
Posted by Jen Graves at 2:35 PM in Comedy / Music / TV
All of Sub Pop's Free Downloads From 2011
Posted by Grant Brissey at 12:33 PM in Music
See Brandi Carlile on New Year's Eve for Free!
Posted by Megan Seling at 11:56 AM in Music
"I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus," and 29 More of Santa's Lost Songs
Posted by Grant Brissey at 11:17 AM in Music / Homo
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
What's the Best "Religious/Super Old-Timey Xmas/Holiday Song" EVARRRRR???
Posted by Grant Brissey at 8:45 AM in Music / Religion
Monday, December 19, 2011
Larry Mizell Jr.'s Review of Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne Show at Tacoma Dome
Posted by Grant Brissey at 8:54 AM in Music / Celeb / Money
Friday, December 16, 2011
Bree McKenna's Review of I'm in the Band, by White Zombie's Co-Founder, Sean Yseult (A Woman)
Posted by Grant Brissey at 9:02 AM in Dudes / Music / The Ladies
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Buy the Most "Valuable" Record in the World
Posted by Grant Brissey at 10:54 AM in Music / Money
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
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