Pop Loser: Chastity Belt’s New Album Made Me Cry
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week I’ll dive into Chastity Belt’s new album All My Friends (out Friday on Suicide Squeeze), the best musician costumes I saw this Halloween, and that time the Pet Shop Boys produced an album for Liza Minnelli. There are so many great shows happening in Seattle this week, and…
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Idaho Voters Picked the Evilest Possible State Gun
Despite the best efforts of the Idaho Republican Party, the state’s people still have the right to propose citizen initiatives, which appear on the ballot alongside initiatives referred by the far-right state Legislature. For instance, Idaho residents this year voted down a grassroots attempt to restore abortion access, as well as a ploy by the…
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Slog AM: Democrats Take Congress, Millionaires Tax Stays, Trans Sports Ban Could Pass
Goodbye Republican Congress! Try not to let the tsunami hit you on the way out. Oops! It hit you? Hm. Maybe that’s because you did zero to help Americans with basic problems—food prices, gas prices, housing prices, the list goes on and on—while at the same time opening the door and laying yourselves down as…
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Four Years Ago, Vito’s Beloved Stuffed Cougar Went Missing
During Thanksgiving weekend of 2022, Vito’s was deprived of a key part of its identity, a taxidermy cougar named Barbara. Killed somewhere in Northern Canada some 20 years before the start of the present millennium, and purchased in 2010 by Vito’s owners, Greg Lundgren and Jeff Scott, the beast commanded the back room reserved for…
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Levitating Together
When XOË (pronounced X-O-E) began making music together a year and a half ago, they had no preconceived notions about what influences might come to the surface. “I feel like it’s only been since the end of last year that we’ve really found our sound,” the band’s keyboardist, Max Irvine, tells me. “And even then,…
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What to Do If You See ICE
Print, fold, and keep this ’zine on hand so you know how and where to report an ICE sighting. You can submit photos and video, and search for ICE license plate information, anytime at ICEout.org. The Washington Immigration Solidarity Network announced staff layoffs in October, and its Deportation Defense Hotline is only monitored Monday–Friday, 7…
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Where to Scream
Solidarity Day with Seattle Democratic Socialists of AmericaNov 14La Resistencia, which started in 2014 to “end immigrant detention and deportations in Washington,” regularly hosts vigils outside the detention center and monitors deportation flights out of the King County International Airport. On November 14, they’ll be joined by members of the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America.…
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Vito’s Lives
The sky is pitch-black as I park my car along a seemingly dead stretch of Main Street on Saturday night in Waitsburg, Washington. I had driven 300 miles from Seattle to get to this tiny town that measures roughly 10 blocks across in each direction. Twenty minutes northeast of the Eastern Washington metropolis of Walla…
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Co-
Maya Tacon and Emma Lawes are the driving forces behind CO-, a production engine that serves as an incubator for artists working across genres of movement and brings dance into unconventional spaces. At one of their Performance + Party events, you’ll encounter artists working in short form, flying around stages, galleries, or even parks. Years…
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New Music You Shouldn’t Miss
Spontaneous RexCataclysm (self-released) The virtuoso instrumentalists in Seattle quartet Spontaneous Rex hark back to the apex competitors of fusion’s peak in the 1970s. Complexity’s back, baby! Look at the success of artists such as Angine de Poitrine, DOMi & JD Beck, and Kamasi Washington. Now, I’m not saying that Spontaneous Rex will reap their commercial and…
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Addicted to the Rot
Alex Tatarsky, who once made headlines by pulling a hoax at the Andy Kaufman Awards in 2013, where they announced they were Andy’s daughter and that he was still alive, says their absurdist performances live in “the uncomfortable in-between zone of comedy, dance-theater, performance art, and deluded rant—sometimes with songs.” Their solo show Sad Boys…
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The People You Meet in Chinatown
I actually kinda love that it’s hard to park in Chinatown. Don’t get me wrong, I also fucking hate it. But I do appreciate what it represents: a neighborhood that’s alive, which, in 2026, is not a given with Chinatowns across the country. Our CID is something special, and the best way to experience it…
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