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 […]
Going back just a little in time, we’ve got photos of the Christmas Vacation Tour for you!! The rad lineup, including Falling In Reverse, Atreyu, From Ashes to New and Assuming We Survive, made its way to Seattle’s Showbox on December 4th, 2015. Tattoos and rock are always great presents, right? We love those gifts! […]