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'Best' of SIFF 2012 series begins Friday at the Uptown
A true 'best-of' SIFF 2012 program, IMHO, would include gritty French drama Polisse, Russian chiller Elena, Argentine road movie Las Acacias, French-Canadian melodrama Wetlands, Dutch sensuality...
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Recommended Film Event(s): Cute overload at SIFF! The Masters of Studio...
Ohmanohmanohman. SIFF has put together one of my favorite programs, EVER with Castles in the Sky: Miyazaki, Takahata, and the Masters of Studio Ghibli.They’ve lined up screenings of all these amazing...
View ArticleThree from the Stacks: trippy ambiance, nostalgic power pop, and bewitching...
Tasseomancy:Ulalume I shouldn't even like this. But I do. Twin sisters Sari and Romy Lightman infuse their folky music with a dreamy, Julee Cruise-esque feel and beautiful vocals. Basically, listening...
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Recommended Exhibit: Amazing photos of The Rolling Stones in 1972 at the EMP
Mick Jagger backstage at the Forum, Los Angeles, California 1972 | All images © copyright and courtesy Jim Marshall Photography LLCSince I know next-to-nothing about photography and famous...
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Very imaginary tribute albums for The Smiths and Repo Man out from American...
Compilations of artists covering other artists thematically or conceptually are some of the very best and worst albums in our collections, aren't they? I never knew one could admit to liking The...
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FYI: What I'd love for you to know about John Cale and Graham Parker
So there are these older white male dudes named John Cale and Graham Parker. Although one pretty much single-handedly co-created punk, alternative, and avant-classical rock -- the former as bass,...
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Love's Not Impossible: My Top Ten Songs of 2012
We had to have some good tunes to get us through a year of watching a psychopathic plutocrat trying to pitch us back into the black and white world of fifties-era paranoia and imperialism. That victory...
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Looking back at the best of 2012
As is the case for years past, best of 2012 lists for this Imaginary Girl are rarely about standard operating procedure -- ranking the best X number of albums in specific order, with exacting reason,...
View ArticleThe best of last winter: More Than Shapes
Remember last winter, when John Roderick played at a house show in Ballard, and how it was pretty much the best thing ever?Yep.In case you missed all those great videos the first time, here's a...
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Imaginary Liz's Best of 2013 Countdown: BOAT
The Grammys officially closed the book on 2012 on Sunday night. And, with SXSW nearly here and the Sasquatch line-up already announced, I think it's safe to share my very likely possibly concrete list...
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Imaginary Liz's Best of 2013 Countdown: Redwood Plan
Anything that Lesli Wood touches is gold, and with her band, The Redwood Plan, she cements that she's a Seattle rock force to be reckoned with. The Redwood Plan's new album, Green Light Go, released...
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Imaginary Liz's Best of 2013 Countdown: Pony Time
The Seattle duo Pony Time is so cool, I'm nearly too shy to even talk about how cool they are. They stunned me in late 2011 with their self-titled EP / vinyl that oozed with infectious Pike Street...
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Imaginary Liz's Best of 2013 Countdown: Stornoway
I am so defenseless against Stornoway's misty melodic tales of yearning tinged with proper British folk, most specifically the songs "Zorbing" and "Long-Distance Lullaby," that the debut release from...
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Imaginary Liz's Best of 2013 Countdown: Math & Physics Club
For the last few months the boys of MaPC have been teasing us with photos on their Facebook page of them recording at K Records' Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia. Just last week, February 11, 2013 to be...
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Imaginary Liz's Best of 2013 Countdown: Tullycraft
It's no secret I have an inside scoop on what goes on in the Tullycraft camp, so I've actually have heard this whole album. A hundred times. Because I just can't stop listening to it.I was a fan long...
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Imaginary Liz's Best of 2013 Countdown: Thermals
Oh Hutch, Kathy, and Westin, how do we love thee! In 2013, you are not only gracing us with so much:- A brand new album of brand new Thermals songs on the beloved Saddle Creek label {of Bright Eyes /...
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Imaginary Liz's Best of 2013 Countdown: Los Campesinos
{Los Campesinos by Steve Louie}Like Allo Darlin, Los Campesinos are a diligent bunch. They publish Heat Rash, a seasonal zine complete with a 7" which I am certain keeps their creative wheels moving...
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Winter rotation: The Transmissionary Six, The Great Um, The Glass Notes,...
The Transmissionary Six, Songs 2002-2012 (Skok) One of my favorite bands ever, The Transmissionary Six, has roots in The Walkabouts (which both TM6 founders Terry Moeller and Paul Austin have played in...
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Throwback Thursday: The Wrens c. 2005
Okay, it's not THAT far of a throwback, but it's hard to believe that this photo is already seven years old!Maybe you remember that most excellent two-night stand The Wrens did for KEXP's Yule...
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Lost in the Stacks: 2012 music I’m getting around to now, pt. I
What. More things form 2012? Haven’t you gotten around to the 2013 stacks? Why yes, yes I have—I just haven’t had proper time to listen to them, while this batch of things has been drifting around in...
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