Tuesday nights, in general, are tough nights to get a crowd into a venue to see some live music. After all, most people have work or school on Wednesday morning, and Tuesday just isn’t close enough to Friday to call in sick. So when you have a couple of up-and-coming bands from fairly obscure places […]
Mike Watt‘s on his third opera. Watt’s first two were 1997’s Contemplating the Engine Room and 2004’s The Secondman’s Middle Stand, and for opera number three, Hyphenated-Man, he drew inspiration from paintings. In order to understand the titles and concept of each song on Hyphenated-Man, you might want to have a look at the Hieronymous […]
On Thursday, April 14th Deftones and the Dillinger Escape Plan played live and loud at the Paramount – along with an awesome digital owl backdrop and major attack strobes in their respective sets. These are a couple forceful bands, and I was just a little terrified taking photos of the Dillinger Escape Plan. They know […]
He could tour on the strength of the Led Zeppelin back catalog until the end of his days, but 45 years into his career Robert Plant is still a musical chameleon. Plant continues to mix multitudes of diverse musical styles into unique, new and exciting sounds. His Americana/bluegrass collaboration with Alison Krauss in 2007, Raising […]
Melbourne, Australia’s Cut Copy headlined Showbox SoDo on Tuesday, April 12th with Holy Ghost! as openers. Cut Copy’s third album on Modular Records, Zonoscope, is out now. Holy Ghost!, a duo from New York, released their self-titled debut on April 15th. Can’t wait to hear it actually. For the Seattle show photographer Alex Crick went […]