... the aughts, Passion Pit slather their indie rock in shameless synth hooks, and they're doing fine. DAVIDSCHMADER Stripmall Architecture, Erik Blood, the Tea Cozies (Chop Suey) San Francisco's Stripmall Architecture used to be called Halou, which sounds very much like a Cocteau Twins song title. Nomenclature aside, the sextet's creative core, vocalist Rebecca Coseboom and guitarist...
... Kanye-endorsed debut, Man on the Moon: End of Day, the Cudder performs tonight at Showbox Sodo. DAVIDSCHMADER Bastard Noise, Iron Lung, Same-Sex Dictator, Requin (Vera) Noise was always a crucial component to the output of dual-bass power-violence originators Man Is the Bastard, with the higher frequencies normally occupied by guitar often replaced by layers of oscillated tones....
... at the (men-only) Yoga Den. Priceless! Current highest bid: $61. BID NOW. • Buy Last Days! DavidSchmader devotes a whole week of his infamous column Last Days to describing seven days of your life, to run in The Stranger 's January 21 issue. Priceless! Current highest bid: $31. BID NOW. • Corianton Hale Makes an Award-Winning Design for Your Band! Do you need a logo? A...
... "Dreams." Tonight, the band plays at Seattle's Moore Theatre. If you want, you can go. DAVIDSCHMADER And there's always more in our complete music calendar listings . [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
The 'Almost Human: Madonna on Film' festival at Central Cinema Dec. 7-Jan. 4, presented by DavidSchmader with running commentary, is a celebration of bad acting.
... tomorrow night , with different line-ups in each show. Tonight's show features The Stranger 's own DavidSchmader , who is funnier than me but without big boobs (SNAAAP!), competing against comedian Ross Parsons , writer/joker Becky Poole , Ian Schemp and David Rollison of Jet City Improv , and Kevin Kantner of the Ubiquitous They . And Saturday night you can see me (Lindy...
... got all fucked up . But the book-related event of the night has to be the Bailey-Coy wake . DavidSchmader wrote very eloquently about the importance of Bailey/Coy in this week's book section . Here's the first explosion of genius in his story: Bailey/Coy's visionary move was situating its perfect little gay bookstore in the center of a fully functioning regular old bookstore—a...
Before we all get too caught up in holiday cheer and movies in which people gather around a table and beam at each other, let's take a look at something not so pretty: bad acting. It's on my mind because the very funny DavidSchmader, the Seattle writer and performer who knows more about "Showgirls" than anyone in the world, is hosting a film series this month called "Almost...
Before we all get too caught up in holiday cheer and movies in which people gather around a table and beam at each other, let's take a look at something not so pretty: bad acting. It's on my mind because the very funny DavidSchmader, the Seattle writer and performer who knows more about "Showgirls" than anyone in the world, is hosting a film series this month called "Almost...
