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Posted by Mike Harper

Oh So Saintly…

The calm croon of Annie Clark's voice can be a smiling trap  to capture you in a cascading lull as her gut-pulling guitar will tear at your ears with the lovely contrasting blows of string-bending and wall-of-sound instrumentation. Seeing her is like a glimpse of a nymph (one who listened to a good bit of Beatles), her small stature a misleading element of her raucously perfect musical wave that combines the sound of destruction and whispers of sonnetesque ballads.

St. Vincent is gracing the Doug Fir with not one but two sets on Saturday, February 6th, including one ALL AGES matinee at 5pm ($15). Catch her later at 9pm for just two bucks more!

St. Vincent with Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Saturday Feb 6 @ The Doug Fir
5pm $15 ALL AGES
9pm $17 21+

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Posted by Jeff Guay

True Stories is a surreal sociological musical — or a magical-realist anthropological music video — in which David Byrne floats about a fictional town called Virgil, Texas, wearing a cowboy hat and bolo tie. Byrne, who wrote and directed the film, was artistically ahead of his time with this 1986 cult classic — but hasn't he always been ahead of his time? Here he boldly breaks and expands cinematic convention and stretches the concept of genre to its limits, but to suggest that True Stories is artsy-fartsy indie-film stuff would be like calling

The Talking Heads music ‘esoteric.' In fact, the film is hilarious in a perfectly dead-pan Read the rest of this entry »