Bumbershoot Announcement Show Featuring Pickwick, Naomi Wachira, 5/8/14 Review & photos by Arlene Brown Pickwick On May 8, 2014 Neumos was the spot to be to catch the pink and purple Bumbershoot fever. We were even given ice cream before the music and got started. The night was MC’d by Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame. […]
Franz Ferdinand @ Showbox SoDo, 4/24/14 Show Review & Photos by Abby Williamson Franz Ferdinand‘s Alex Kapranos It’s been 10 years since 2004. Take a second; I’ll let you catch your breath. Crazy, isn’t it? That means it’s been 10 years since Mean Girls, 10 years since Oceanic Flight 815 first crashed on the island […]
Battleme @ El Corazon, 3/27/14 Review by Jessica Price Battleme Ah, the exquisite pain of standing in an achingly slow-moving line in the rain, knowing that the band you really came to see is already on stage because you can hear them starting up, less than 50 feet away from you, through the decrepit walls […]
Aging Gracefully: Marc Maron’s Thinky Pain by Blake Madden Thinky Pain Marc Maron was once the clean-shaven, shorthaired guy with the snarling wit and small bifocals. He donned the standard open sports jacket issued to male comedians of the era. He was the skinny, wiry, angry guy. That’s the Marc Maron I remember from my […]
Jherek Bischoff/Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra @ the Crocodile, 5/1/14 Review by Nick Nihil Seattle seems to be THE spot in the U.S. – the current cultural and economic axis; Macklemore, Mary Lambert, weed, Super Bowl, socialist councilperson and the $15/hr wage debate. At least that’s what it seems to a Seattle dweller. Truth […]