Butthole Surfers Treat Seattle to Spectacle, Classics
ALive & Kicking The Butthole Surfers, Psychic Ills Oct. 13th, 2009 @ Showbox at the Market Last month, legendary experimental punk rockers, the Butthole Surfers, played a killer hour…
ALive & Kicking The Butthole Surfers, Psychic Ills Oct. 13th, 2009 @ Showbox at the Market Last month, legendary experimental punk rockers, the Butthole Surfers, played a killer hour…
Label Me Crazy Whitney Reminisces on this Summer’s Seattle Festivals Just as Folklife celebrates the potential arrival of summer, Bumbershoot revels in the end of summer bliss. It’s the last…
Fun With Books, Spreadsheets By Gabe Baker In 1998 Modern Library, the “classy” imprint of the publisher Random House, released its list of 100 Best Novels. You can review the…
It had probably been 10 years since I saw Jason Webley perform. At that time, he was just a solo act, playing an accordian and singing “old-timey” style songs. So there was no way for me to anticipate the high concept performance art piece I was about to witness.
From the extreme Satanism of black metal to the Catholic mysticism of Black Sabbath, metal has always dipped into religion and spirituality for inspiration. Recent movements have pushed the spiritual boundaries further into a kind of metal asceticism based on restricted and conceptual musical ideas. Bands like Sunn O))), Earth, and Boris often produce music that has more in common with Steve Reich than Sabbath.