It's a weekend of celebration for fellow music bloggers and friends: Ear Candy and Back Beat Seattle. Both blogs are celebrating milestones with some kick ass local bills and you could make a full weekend of their shows alone. First up on Friday night is Back Beat Seattle. Back Beat is celebrating the site's one [...]
It's a weekend of celebration for fellow music bloggers and friends: Ear Candy and Back Beat Seattle. Both blogs are celebrating milestones with some kick ass local bills and you could make a full weekend - Friday, Saturday and Sunday - of just their shows alone. First up on Friday night is Back Beat Seattle. Back [...]
Justice @ Showbox Sodo 03.24.08 It's astounding how many things are going on tonight! ChrisB will be at Metric at Showbox (read his interview with them), Keenan will be at Jens Lekman (Oh Jens) at the Crocodile, imaginary victoria is at Neko Case (at the Paramount), imaginary hyme is all about the Desolation Wilderness show. Even our imaginary gal in LA, CA has chimed in with a recommendation to see recent Barsuk singing artist The Wooden Birds at Chop Suey tonight. And then there's these other show's we'd be freaking out about if the [...]
Girl Talk will make Seattle groove on Friday night photo by Tom Purves The Capitol Hill Block Party is what's happening this weekend! Consult your schedule , pack your sunscreen (remember, severe sunburn can occur even with overcast skies!), and head up to the Hill to catch an incredible lineup of local and national performers like Silversun Pickups , Spoon , John Vanderslice , Aesop Rock , Girl Talk , Blue Scholars , [...]
I don't know if I will actually make it, but I'm going to try to keep the rock and not pop theme of yesterday going for at least a week. Sure, I could probably go on much longer than that, but I think there's too much pop to ignore and not enough interesting rock to love, so for the sake of quality I'm not going to push my luck. Anyhow, let's talk Spanish For 100. The Seattle-based quartet came about in 2002 and since then they've seen a couple of releases, a few different lineups and whole [...]
An evening of firsts. Tonight is the first time I'm putting on a show at The Empty Bottle . It is also the first time I've been able to get Frisbie on a Tankboy bill, although we've been trying to work together for over seven years now! It is also Sleeps With The Fishes ' first ever show; fancier folks might even call it their debut. it is also the first time I'll be seeing Aaron (an old and close friend, and guitarist for [...]