From Seattle 05/20/09The Capitol Hill Block Party permalinkThe Capitol Hill Block Party is Seattle’s biggest summertime music event, with 50 bands on three stages during two days. This year’s lineup includes Sonic Youth, The Gossip, Deerhunter, Micachu & The Shapes, and the Pains at Being Pure at Heart. And guess where you can get tickets! Give up? Ok, at all Seattle Urban Outfitters! Go! Go! |
From Seattle 03/26/09Anything can happen, but it probably won’t. permalinkJesse Brown and Aaron Harris’s two-person show at Cairo Gallery offers more than just a great name. |
From Seattle 02/27/09Bacon Suit permalinkIntroducing Archie McPhee’s bacon-scented bacon-print tuxedo. This suit will get you mad bitches—of the canine variety, that is. |
From Seattle 02/25/09Champagne Champagne permalinkTogether, DJ Gajamagic, Pearl Dragon and Thomas Gray are Champagne Champagne, an hip-hop/whatever they wanna do group that keeps it poppin’ better than a bottle of André Cold Duck. Be sure to check out “Molly Ringwald,” a love song about a girl who looks like, well, Molly Ringwald.
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From Seattle 02/12/09Free Yr Radio Benefit Compilation permalinkYou don’t get this at the dollar store: Now just $.99 at Insound, Free Yr Radio’s 2008 Benefit Compilation, featuring 12 exclusive tracks from the likes of Chairlift, Yeasayer, No Age, White Williams and Dan Deacon.
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From Seattle 02/05/09Mike Leavitt permalinkThough best known for his cardboard sneakers, the rest of artist Mike Leavitt’s work is just as jaw-dropping, like hand-sculpted synthetic polymer clay action figures, painted pennys, and turtles created from salvaged road debris. Much of it, like this Kermit the Frog painted on a found guitar pick, is for sale at a pretty reasonable price. It’s the perfect present for the art-, recycling- and Muppets-loving guitar player in your life. |
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From Seattle 07/25/08Capitol Hill Block Party permalinkThis Friday and Saturday we’re sponsoring Seattle’s 2-day music megablast known as the Capitol Hill Block Party. Umpteen bands are playing with big boys like Vampire Weekend (above), Les Savy Fav, Hold Steady, and Chromeo sharing four stages with local acts like U.S.E., Fleet Foxes, Throw Me the Statue, and tons more. It all kicks off at 4 pm today and tickets (sans service charge!) are on sale for $18/per day at each of our 4 Seattle stores. Art lovers bonus: From 2-7pm on Saturday, Greg “Pnut” Galinsky will be at our 4518 University Way NE location painting custom Vans slip-ons. It’s first come, first served with a minimum $10 donation that’ll be split between the two charities the Block Party is supporting: VERA Seattle and Home Alive.
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From Seattle 07/22/08Mudhoney In-Store Performance permalinkMudhoney came just as strong as they did in their 1990 heyday and when they played their FreeYrRadio show at KEXP on July 23. (More pix here. Donate to KEXP.) |
From Seattle 04/10/08Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head permalinkWe’re pretty much into any band that sings about fruit snacks and describes themselves as “a delicious explosion of freak-dance fruit pie”. Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head are on a mission to make the booty bounce and CSS asked them to open up for them on tour so you know they’ve got that magic stuff.
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From Seattle 01/30/08
New Store in Seattle permalinkOur new store at 4518 University Way, NE opens on February 1. The first three hundred customers get one of our awesome totes and 10% of the first seven days’ sales will go to the Urban Outfitters Good Neighbor Scholarship Fund at the University of Washington.
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From Seattle 12/14/07Trophy Cupcakes and Party permalinkTis the season for holiday-inspired cupcakes from Trophy Cupcakes and Party. We think we would choose chocolate candy cane. Or maybe bourbon eggnog or gingerbread or candied yam or snickerdoodle or…let’s be honest, we’d get a whole dozen.
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From Seattle 11/07/07Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. permalinkThe Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. is the “faux” storefront that houses the Seattle outpost of Dave Eggers’ 826 Valencia project, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center dedicated to helping youth improve their creative writing skills. Eggers’ altruistic impulses don’t stop there: His latest book, What Is the What, is the novelized autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, from his pre-war life in southern Sudan to his resettlement in the United States. All proceeds from the book go to aiding the Sudanese in America and Sudan. |
From Seattle 08/29/07Bumbershoot permalinkWeird name, awesome lineup. Seattle’s music & arts melee runs from September 1st through the 3rd, complete with a host of headliners from Wu-Tang to The Shins.
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From Seattle 08/06/07 |
From Seattle 07/24/07Capitol Hill Block Party permalinkThe Capitol Hill Block Party is a huge, two-day music explosion happening this weekend (July 27-28) featuring over 40 bands on 3 stages that’s the Northwest’s biggest celebration of independent music, art and progressive culture. We designed these killer tees for the event and you can get ‘em at all 3 of our Seattle locations. |
From Seattle 06/13/07The Pipettes Live at Sonic Boom permalinkThe Pipettes are playing a live in-store tomorrow nite (June 14) at Sonic Boom’s Ballard location. |
From Seattle 05/09/07HunterGatherer permalinkBeautiful work featured in HUGA’s Indicators show at Seattle’s BLVD Gallery.
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From Seattle 05/08/07The Long Winters In-Store Performance permalinkThe Long Winters got the Seattle area all hot and bothered with their FreeYrRadio in store set. (Donate to KEXP here. More pix here.)
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