A world without Slayer would be a sad place indeed. This band’s music is a thing of great beauty, and we’re always thrilled to feature Slayer on Back Beat Seattle. They’ve also got cool fans, including one who put together a holiday light show to Slayer tunes in dedication to the late – and missed […]
KEXP presented its fourth annual Reykjavik Calling, a free event with concerts by artists from Iceland and Seattle. Pretty cool. In case you did not know, Reykjavik is our Icelandic sister city, and KEXP matched up the Seattle and Reykjavik artists to see what would happen. Here’s some photographic evidence by Simon Krane: Hermigervill & […]
The Julie Ruin, which includes two members of Bikini Kill, Kathleen Hanna and Kathi Wilcox, appeared at Neumos in September. The group headlined shows in the States for their album Run Fast, and get to do some dates in Australia for the new year. Their album, in addition to being excellent, featured some of the […]
We did it!! Here’s our final installment of Bumbershoot photos for the 2013 festival with Shelby Earl, Mary Lambert, Le Wrens and Gus + Scout. Thank you to Bumbershoot for the wonderful shows and photographers Nicky Andrews, Simon Krane and Kirk Stauffer for covering this year’s festival! No one has asked us to plug next […]
Pearl Jam @ KeyArena, 10/6 Show Review by Abby Williamson Photos by Kirk Stauffer Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder Sitting down to write this, coming up with how to begin was harder than anything I’ve written in a long time. I’ve seen many musicians in the last five years, but I haven’t seen many legendary bands. […]