Canada’s Basia Bulat shared new songs from her fourth album, Good Advice, with Seattle during a February visit to Barboza. She certainly performed other material, and not to take away from Bulat’s previous work, but Good Advice was produced by My Morning Jacket’s Jim James. . . Bulat, whose debut made the shortlist for Polaris […]
Escondido, a folk rock duo from Nashville, Tennessee, headlined the Tractor in April. Jessica Maros, from Vancouver, Canada, who worked with Band of Horses’ Bill Reynolds in another pairing, KUZIN, and Taylor James, a Mount Vernon, Washington-born touring band member of several bands, including Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, comprise the band. See what […]
Tina Dico, a singer-songwriter from Denmark, performed at the Triple Door in May. For the show, she brought fellow musician (and her husband), Helgi Jónsson, with whom she’ll have a set of September performances in Germany. Some big news since the Seattle date, and just announced by Dico on her Facebook page: she’s pregnant with […]
Just one day before April Fool’s Day, Seattle quartet Tacocat celebrated their new album, Lost Time, with a show at Chop Suey. The band will begin a countrywide tour on September 20th, and end that tour with a December 15th headlining Showbox appearance. If you are in the Seattle area, and need your Tacocat a […]
Sub Pop Records celebrated its 28th birthday with a show at Barboza on April 1st. How time flies! Sub Pop artists Cullen Omori, Kyle Craft and Porter Ray performed sets to commemorate the event. Congratulations, Sub Pop, you’ll be 30 before we know it. All photos by Monica Martinez: Cullen Omori Kyle Craft Porter Ray