There was a time when every urban iPod listener had a choice to make regarding personal speakers. Do you use some pair of headphones from the 80s with the orange foam on them that you found in the spare electronics box in the garage to disguise your identity as an iPod owner? Or do you fly the snowy whites your iPod came with and announce your Apple Cool to everyone on the bus, and damn the mugging risks, this being Seattle after all. Or do you sport the giant cans because you absolutely need to squeeze as much sound performance as you can from a 128 kb-encoded MP3? The question has fallen moot as time, incessant television advertising and the near-ubiquity of iPods themselves have wrung the last vestiges of cachet out of the white cables. Just go with what ya got--Seattlest has a pair of these Sony earbuds that sound ok, but have this terrible cord configuration that was dreamed up by either a moron or a marketing guy hoping to horn in on Apple's headphone branding successes. more ›

Seattlest got a Sony Walkman for our 15th birthday, and bought our first couple of cassette tapes with saved allowance: Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms and Eazy-E’s Eazy-Duz-It. As any self-respecting male teen would be, we were offended thrilled by the latter’s raw language and humor. So within a few weeks, we’d procured N.W.A.’s tape, Straight Outta Compton. That’s how we knew what we were hearing Sunday night when we were put on hold after calling Mad Pizza: more ›

The 1985 Orange Bowl between UW and Oklahoma is one of Seattlest's earliest memories. After Dad told us to stop fidgeting (we were real nervous) we sat our 8-year-old butt in a chair, by the 17-inch Sony Trinitron, and watched the flickering images of a titanic Husky upset beam back from Miami. more ›

The release of Pearl Jam's new album came and went without so much as a single flannel appearing in Belltown and nary a Rolling Stone cover story devoted to the Seattle Scene. Oh well, it's ok stuff and heartfelt, but hardly the life-altering event previous PJ albums may have been. The band released a video last week, though, which is something they haven't done since 1998. We barely remember '98: Y2K was approaching, the War on Terror was a gleam in Rumsfeld's eye, Pearl Jam was relevant. more ›

-A guy in Tacoma tried to step in on a fight between his mom and step-dad and was shot. Accidentally. In the head. He died 40 minutes later. more ›

We like a good dive bar. In fact, any bar that serves all of its drinks out of plastic tumblers ranks high on our list. You might not be aware that one of the best dive bars in the city is located just north of Market Street in Ballard. The Golden City which shares name and menu but not entrance with the adjoining restaurant easily fills the bill as one of Seattle's dive-iest. more ›

Apparently (and we wait for your shock and, perhaps even awe), music labels pay record stations to play their songs. more ›

Entertainment giant Sony announced yesterday that they are planting roots in Seattle's fertile developer soil by opening a development studio in the city. The move, no doubt, can also be attributed to the prominent members of the SOE team who were booted from Microsoft--namely, Matt Wilson, who had his last large project in Redmond closed down last year. After the Mythica debacle at Microsoft Wilson opened FireAnt, Inc., all of whose members will be joining Sony. more ›