Steven Tyler @ McCaw Hall, 7/8/16 Show Review & Photos by John Rudolph On his 19-city “Out On a Limb” tour, Steven Tyler is dipping his toe into the country music world. Tyler’s new song “Red, White, and You” has a country sound, however do country fans take him seriously? For this show at least, […]
The Game @ Showbox SoDo, April 2016 Photos by Casey Brevig The Game Compton, California’s The Game (real name Jayceon Terrell Taylor) headlined Showbox SoDo in April. The rapper, who’s worked with an amazing variety of producers, including Travis Barker and Kanye West, offered his approach to mortality in an interview with Billboard in 2015 […]
Kickin’ Ass and Chewin’ Bubble Gum: John Carpenter‘s Live Retrospective at the Paramount ~Blake Madden “Underpromise and over-deliver” is a motto for service providers, not the kind of sentiment an artist should use. John Carpenter is not your typical artist. He may be the least pretentious man in show business, a director and musician who […]
Mirah & Jherek Bischoff @ the Neptune, June 8th Review by Nick Nihil Mira & Jherek Bischoff Jherek Bischoff’s lack of the enigmatic is what makes him so fascinating. Cartoonishly gangly and coiffed, his sincerity assures he is not a mere construct of irony. So is it with his art that he has keenly drawn […]
The Used @ Showbox SoDo, 4/5/16 Show Review & Photos by Monica Martinez Growing up as a screamo-loving angsty teen, I never really thought about what songs meant. I just knew that screaming them at the top of my lungs made me feel better. A decade later, it was soothing to hear the Used’s singer […]