August 2006

FEATURES

HOT TIME, SUMMER IN THE CITY
Seattle braces for yet another installment of Bumbershoot with the Gossip’s Beth Ditto, Reggie Watts, Laura Veirs, Rocky Votolato, Common Market, Mountain Con, Kane Hodder, Degenerate Art Ensemble, and more

BUMBERSHOOT SCHEDULE
Everything you need to know: day by day, stage by stage, hour by hour

LORD OF THE RING
Eight singers face off for $30,000 in the Seattle Opera’s first International Wagner Competition

SPEED KILLS
Harvey Danger frontman Sean Nelson discusses the band’s meteoric rise to fame and the long, slow crawl out of the pigeonhole that resulted

SOUL MEN
Spelunking the funk tunnel from Jamaica to Toronto with Seattle’s Light in the Attic Records

SNAPSHOTS
Sax-man Skerik kicks modern jazz square in the pants, Jovino Santos Neto brings Brazil to the Northwest, and organist Dennis James revives the sounds of silent film.

COLUMNS
Jargon Soup (global)
Lucky Like That (country)
No Rest for the West (jazz)

DEPARTMENTS

AT THEIR WORD
Blue Scholars emcee Geologic moves mountains

CALENDAR
Your day-to-day guide to the best entertainment August has to offer

OUT & ABOUT
From the Windy City to the Heartland, the summer festival circuit heats up

NIGHTLIFE
Rack n’ roll: Take a dip into pool with our billiard hall roundup

REVIEWS
Optimus Rhyme’s School the Indie Rockers plus 26 august music reviews

CODA
Nouvelle Vague takes on the Stranglers