On March 30, Showbox SoDo had a fantastic pairing of Underoath and Caspian. While Caspian hits Europe this summer, look out for Underoath at Riot Fest in the fall. We’re stoked to share photographer Josh Daniels’ pictures from the Seattle date. Simon Krane, another of Back Beat Seattle’s photographers, snapped a Seattle Caspian show in […]
Album Review: Swans‘ The Glowing Man ~Nick Nihil It’s both amazing and not too surprising at this point that a band as visionary, talented, and experienced as Swans can continue to evolve and deepen their uniquely monolithic attack. They’re certainly not the only band identified by heavy, droning dirges that find meditative peace within force […]
Show Review: So Pitted & Naomi Punk @ Chop Suey 5/5/16 ~Nick Nihil So Pitted New Seattle, for better or worse. When world touring, label-signed critical darlings play Chop Suey at 2/3 capacity, something is lamentably amiss. When one might be excused for wondering if they might have stumbled into a museum on the history […]
The lovely women of the Suicide Girls are proud to challenge conventions of beauty. The ladies of SG performed the Blackheart Burlesque in Seattle last night to a boisterous, sold out crowd at the Crocodile. The Suicide Girls have a massive following who enjoy getting to know these sexy women through the online community at […]
Photographer Tino Tran caught the co-headlining show of August Burns Red/Between the Buried and Me in March. The pairing of those two bands was brilliant, as each one is a different style of metal from the other, with just enough of a match to be certain there would definitely be crossover fans. They’ll both be […]