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RSVP HEREIlithios Streams Debut Live Performance + MORE

Welcome to our weekly show recommendation column RSVP HERE. Due to live show cancellations we will be covering virtual live music events and festivals. More solo endeavors are sprouting up now that many musicians have been left separated from their bands due to social distancing. Most recently,...

Tarra Thiessen

ONLY NOISEIn the Wake of Kurt's Suicide, Courtney Love Changed My Life

Courtney spent her career living in the shadow of Kurt Cobain, despite her own brilliant talent. ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, legendary ROCKRGRL editor Carla Black remembers how her sympathy...

Carla Black

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NEWS ROUNDUPInternational Women's Day, Leaving Neverland, and MORE

Maggie Rogers, Mavis Staples, Phoebe Bridgers and Brandi Carlile meet at Newport Music Fest. Photo by Danny Clinch. The artists shared this photo along with messages of empowerment for International Women's Day via Twitter. It's International Women's Day! Though some form of International Women's...

Lindsey Rhoades

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PLAYING SEATTLEPreserving Seattle's Music Scene in a Transforming City

The music scene in Seattle and the surrounding Pacific Northwest area birthed Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, Heart, Steve Miller Band, Ernestine Anderson, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Death Cab for Cutie, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, and so many more artists that have shaped popular music...

Alexa Peters

NEWS ROUNDUPWarped Tour Controversy, DIY In NYC and More

This year, founder Kevin Lyman explained why he thinks this is a cool, punk rock thing to do: "I use them to drag out the pro-choice groups… We...

Emily Daly

ONLY NOISENevermind Nirvana

Dear Carl, Why do I hate Nirvana? -The Guilty Washingtonian.

Madison Bloom

INTERVIEW/EP REVIEWThe Black Black

“Thematically, it’s kind of a break-up song, a song about the replaceable nature of relationships,” the band’s singer/songwriter/guitarist, Jonathan, told us. “Sometimes, you’re replacing the relationship but not the person, and the people blur together.”

Emily Daly

WILLONA ON WAXSeattle Grunge and African Psych

Each month in Willona on Wax, Willona Sloan reviews new vinyl, reissues, and vintage finds. For her first installment, she reviews a Soul Jazz comp of lesser-known Northwestern grunge bands, and an Analog Africa comp of psychedelic sounds from Benin and Togo. NEW VINYL No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds...

Willona Sloan

APPROVAL MATRIX2/16/14 thru 2/22/14

Here's our take on the best and worst in music this week. HIGHBROW ^^^^^^^^ [box type="shadow"] Mark your calendars: on 2/28, Smashing Pumpkins' frontman William Corgan (as he's billed himself for this event) is improvising an 8 to 9 hour ambient musical interpretation of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha...

Megan Huffman

MOVIE REVIEWHit So Hard (The Life and Near-Death Story of Patty Schemel)

I've been on a bit of a grunge binge lately. It could be that the onset of certain anniversaries, observed by nearly everyone who cared about music in the mid-nineties, turns collective thought to the anti-heroes of the genre who destroyed themselves in the process of creating it. But for all the...

Lindsey Rhoades

Taking a Look at Jesse Frohman's Photos of Kurt Cobain

Because he was a photographer and not a psychic, Jesse Frohman had no way of knowing that his now-iconic pictures of grunge idol Kurt Cobain would be some of the last ever shot. But judging by the Nirvana frontman's erratic behavior both leading up to and during the session, originally commissioned...

Lindsey Rhoades