Ravenna Woods at the Summer Bonfire Series ::: photo by Abbey Simmons One of our favorite new things in 2011 was Artist Home's (the fine folks who put on Doe Bay Fest and Slack Fest) summer bonfire series at Golden Gardens. A free outdoor show and bonfire with surprise performers, we got to see Bryan John [...]
Kelli Schaefer ::: photo by Dylan Priest Having fallen deep down a used-vinyl sized hole this year, I managed to completely miss most of the national blog buzz bands and mp3s making the press release copy&paste rounds of 2011, those things that so often fill end of the year lists. But considering the immense output from [...]
Fifty seconds into the second track of After Nights Without Sleep , Seattle pop quintet Curtains For You 's newest release, lead singer Matt Gervais belts the song's title: "What good am I to you now?", and the band follows up with a vibrant guitar interlude that makes you bounce in your chair. All of this captures the what makes After Nights Without Sleep so good: catchy music with a smart edge. Throughout the album, Curtains For You continually matches hook-laden pop with emotionally sensitive lyrics. [...]
Smokey Brights ::: photo by Abbey Simmons Sitting in my house with gloves on, its hard to believe this was just a little over a month ago. These photos and videos got buried in Bumbershoot and Doe Bay Session editing, but with the chill of fall upon us I dove into editing and uploading shots and [...]
Charles Bradley at Bumbershoot 2011 (09/04/11) Words and Photos : Drake Lelane Enjoy the final installment of Drake's coverage from Bumbershoot 2011. -ed. Bumbershoot 2011 - Day 3 For the third and final day of Bumbershoot, I had a special guest with me to start out. My four-year old son Zane, freshly back from a week at Camp Grandpa, loves himself some live music, so he acted as my 'assistant' for the first half of the day. [...]
Bumbershoot 2011 Day Three (September 5th, 2011 - Seattle, Washington) ** There may not be a better way to begin a day of musical carousing than by watching Charles Bradley, otherwise known as "The Screaming Eagle of Soul," and "The Black Swan," take the stage for an intimate, live KEXP performance. The Gainesville, Florida born funk-star and soul-singer is a true legend, and it's easy to see why. Draped in a royal-red, sequined blazer, and offering a reverential bow, Bradley held the audience in a state of excited bliss [...]
Bumbershoot 2011 Day Three Photographs (September 5th, 2011 - Seattle, Washington) All photographs taken by Steven Smith Head Like A Kite Phantogram Big Boi [...]
Phantogram ::: photo by Josh Lovseth We're into the final stretch Fly Moon Royalty (12:45pm Fisher Green Stage) - Fly Moon Royalty took a 12-gauge shotgun, place it to the side of my left temple and pulled the trigger when they played the Yoga Studio at Doe Bay Music Festival a couple of weeks ago. There were [...]
The Lonely H at ReverbFest 2009 ::: photo by Abbey Simmons There was a time when local music festival season lasted from Sasquatch to Bumbershoot, a strictly spring and summer affair. But that time is no more. With two of our city's print publications now hosting music festivals during October, Festival Season is just about all [...]
Slack Fest isn't the only local music festival happening this weekend. If you're not heading North to Stanwood, or even if you are, you can still catch some of Seattle's best bands this weekend in two uniquely Northwest festival settings ... and thanks the annual West Seattle Summer Fest and the Ballard Seafood Fest, [...]
Bumbershoot ::: photo by Josh Lovseth After a band a day in May, Bumbershoot has burst with its full day-by-day line-up. We're loving the local selection including: Shabazz Palaces, Grand Hallway, Lemolo, Pickwick, My Goodness, Ravenna Woods, Curtains for You, Whalebones, Allen Stone, Kaylee Cole, The Lonely Forest and lots more. Though it's soul singer Charles [...]
The Seattle-based power poppers in Curtains For You are back with their third album on August 23. After Nights Without Sleep (Spark & Shine) follows 20092s What A Lovely Surprise To Wake Up Here and is highly recommended if you dig bands such as the Posies, Jellyfish or Zumpano. (And really, who doesn't?) But if [...]
Curtains for You find a new fan in Drew Grow ::: Photo by Josh Lovseth Five years on, the Round is more than just an intimate event that's catching on internationally, it's a malleable concept that's potential is only limited by how much it's participants are willing to run with the idea and cross-pollinate. The participants [...]
Ivan & Alyosha and Friends ::: Photo Josh Lovseth Rising Seattle pop act Ivan & Alyosha are poised for taking their band to the next level in 2011. For Friday night's sold out show celebrating the release of their Fathers Be Kind EP at Columbia City Theater was evidence of that. Performing with a string section, [...]
Hands down, one of our favorite parts of booking monthly shows is the moment we click the attached file in our inboxes and get to see whatever gorgeous poster one of the Pacific Northwest's many talented artists have imagined for us. So obviously our mornings started out on a high note with this stunning poster [...]
Hands down, one of our favorite parts of booking monthly shows is the moment we click the attached file in our inboxes and get to see whatever gorgeous poster one of the Pacific Northwest's many talented artists have imagined for us. So obviously our mornings started out on a high note with this stunning poster [...]
Ivan & Alyosha ::: photo by Josh Lovseth With two sold out shows already in 2011, its shaping up to be an amazing new year for Sound on the Sound Presents showcases. And we think our February showcase of Seattle pop powerhouses Ivan & Alyosha and Curtains for You is going to continue the trend. Sound [...]
Ivan & Alyosha ::: photo by Josh Lovseth With two sold out shows already in 2011, its shaping up to be an amazing new year for Sound on the Sound Presents showcases. And we think our February showcase of Seattle pop powerhouses Ivan & Alyosha and Curtains for You is going to continue the trend. Sound [...]
Ivan & Alyosha ::: photo by Josh Lovseth With two sold out shows already in 2011, its shaping up to be an amazing new year for Sound on the Sound Presents showcases. And we think our February showcase of Seattle pop powerhouses Ivan & Alyosha and Curtains for You is going to continue the trend. Sound [...]
The Doe Bay Sessions Team ::: portrait by Hilary Harris Another Tuesday has passed with no new video, which means I'm sitting here missing The Doe Bay Sessions and reflecting in wonder that they happened at all. For the folks involved with the technical side Doe Bay Sessions, they have another nickname: the serendipity sessions. Everything [...]
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