If you want to stick near the festival I highly recommend the Streamline Tavern (it recently moved a couple blocks, I haven't been to the new location but the old location was great) or the Mecca Cafe. Both are great dive bars. South of Seattle Center in Belltown is a great dive bar called Shorty's with a record shop…

Marc Cohn's debut album was literally inescapable in my house growing up. Most people know Walking in Memphis, but I even have all the deep cuts permanently imprinted on my soul… Sometimes I will casually reference something like "Silver Thunderbird" and people just give me blank stares.

You should really get into Veep, it's as good if not better than Silicon Valley. Definitely want to start with the first season instead of jumping in now though.

I will give this a shot if only because that Jim James (feat. Calexico) cover of "Goin' to Acapulco" is not just one of my favorite Dylan covers ever but might just be one of my favorite songs in general.

Wow. This was the first thing I'd read in terms of interviews with him, but that is pretty shocking. I wonder how you could spend months/years on this project and never really understand that part of the movie. I mean, he obviously still made a great show, so that's impressive. But still. Wow.

I have to assume that just came out wrong. Maybe what he meant was that the casual viewer thinks "Why is this in the movie? It has nothing to do with anything!" while the true underpinnings of the scene make a lot of sense when you drill down deeper.

Am I the only person who was shocked by the twist ending to this clip in which we find out THE GUY WHO MADE THIS HAS AN AOL EMAIL ADDRESS? My mind is blown.

I highly suggest Said The Whale. Incredible live show and great people. Also, Shad is an incredible hip-hop artist — such dense wordplay and so much fun. If you like smart folk-country music, I recommend Corb Lund.

I saw Prince Avalanche at the Seattle International Film Festival a few months back and walked away thoroughly unimpressed. The two main characters are supremely unlikable and you spend the entire film stuck with them. Character motivations throughout are impossible to decipher and much of the dialogue is stilted…

It says right on the cover above that it was co-written by Greg Sestero and (renowned journalist/critic) Tom Bissell, so I think it's safe to say the only lazy writer here in need of some editing is you.

I really need to check out Run The Jewels. You seem like a real hip-hop head so I highly recommend checking out Shad & Skratch Bastid's new collab EP, The Spring Up (it's free).

The fact that he hasn't returned to read/reply to any of the various responses to his original post suggest that his complaints are disingenuous and he just wanted to complain instead of actually finding new music.

Might be a bit too on the nose and/or depressing, but my #1 pick is probably Iron & Wine's "Trapeze Swinger."

Wow no joke, you need to check out a rapper named Shad. He is essentially everything you just described in your first paragraph… except instead of decent-to-great lyrics, he has absolutely incredible ones. Dude is a lyrical genius. Easily my favorite rapper in the game right now.

Everyone else seems to be saying this already, but Madrigal sounds like such a douche here. If he read the lyrics half as close as his son seems to be reading them he would know the song is more earnest than it is ironic. It's obviously overplayed and that can make anything annoying, but it's not a bad song just…

Agree. When they announced that Stewart would be gone for the summer I wished that Wyatt Cenac was still around because I would have preferred him hosting to Oliver. I often find Oliver's righteous indignation shtick a little tiresome, but last night's episode turned out to be pretty funny. It's obvious the writers…

The newest album from Shad, an incredible rapper out of Canada, is also coming out later this year. People need to stop sleeping on him, he's a lyrical genius. This is his latest mixtape, "Melancholy and The Infinite Shadness" http://shadk.bandcamp.com/a…