Category: Music

How to get to Eistnaflug

Eistnaflug is a remote and mysterious ritual, underground even among the denizens of its home country and virtually unheard of outside of Iceland. More famous...

Opera on Tap

On a recent Wednesday night, while the rest of the family was upstairs reading bedtime stories, I snuck out of the house and met my...

Tales of Hoffmann at Seattle Opera

A while back I wrote a post about the erroneous perception that heavy metal has to be grim and angry and depressing. Even a lot...

Have a Good Time

I’ve already written up the Decibel Magazine Tour at Showbox, with its dream team of a lineup: Carcass, Black Dahlia Murder, Gorguts, Noisem, and Bastard...