Troye Sivan, an Australian singer-songwriter (and actor!), headlined Showbox SoDo in February. The 2016 winner of GLAAD’s Outstanding Music Award, Sivan combined his talent with several producers, XXYYXX and Jack Antonoff among them, on his debut album Blue Neighborhood. In 2014, Time rated the then nineteen-year-old Sivan one of the most influential teens of 2014. […]
California’s Giraffage (musical name for one Charlie Yin) had the opening slot for Slow Magic at the Showbox in December 2015. Giraffage, whose genre Yin describes as “idk idc whatever dude” on Facebook, is an electronic producer who’s remixed songs by artists such as Mapei, Tinashe and Carly Rae Jepsen, among others. We’ve loved featuring […]
Iggy Pop & Noveller @ the Paramount, Monday March 28th Show Review & Photos by Monica Martinez Iggy Pop – Brings us Post Pop Depression! Iggy Pop came to Seattle on Monday, and of course he was amazing! The show started out sleepy and slow with opener, New York’s Sarah Lipstate, aka Noveller, who sounded […]
The fabulous Ani DiFranco visited Seattle’s Neptune Theatre on March 6th. Winner of numerous awards, DiFranco produced her latest album, Allergic to Water (woah, that would be an awful condition!), and began an awesome Ani’s Recommended Reading on her web site. That’s a brilliant idea, really. And, cool DiFranco alert: she’ll be on Jefferson Public […]
EMP hosted its annual Sound Off! competition on February 27th. The Semifinals #3 made Dre’zy and too Smoove the winner (and audience favorite!), and LEE the runner up. The event is always a favorite here at Back Beat Seattle. Enjoy photographer Simon Krane’s photos of Dre’zy and too Smoove, LEE, and the other two Semifinals […]