The Bellydance Superstars are coming to Seattle on Saturday, February 12th. The dance troupe, which began in 2002, will perform as part of their latest show, Bombay Bellywood. The show includes classical Indian dance, Bollywood themes, and of course bellydancing! On tour with the troupe is dancer Petite Jamila, whom I spoke with last weekend, […]
Photographer Geoffrey Gribbin got some stunners of Slash on Saturday night. Slash, who appeared at the Tacoma Dome while on tour with Ozzy Osbourne, released his first solo CD, the self-titled Slash in 2010. He followed up Saturday’s show with a surprise gig at yesterday’s Super Bowl (at about the 3:55 mark of this video). […]
This past Saturday night Campfire OK celebrated their CD release party at the beautiful Columbia City Theater. They played to a sold out audience who ended up hootin’ and hollerin’ as the final song ended, and they were able to round up an impromptu encore for the crowd. Bryan John Appleby got everyone started with […]
The lineup for 2011 Sasquatch! Music Festival was announced last night at the Showbox Market. Big headliners for this year include Foo Fighters, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, Wilco, the Flaming Lips, the Decemberists, Bright Eyes, Iron & Wine, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Bassnectar, and Robyn. Other bands I’d particularly look forward to are Chromeo, […]
Friday night’s Motörhead set ripped open with “We Are Motörhead,” off 2000’s We Are Motörhead. Its lyrics include we shoot power to your heart, a mighty thunderbolt/ we charge all batteries, we save your soul, and I didn’t doubt these promises at all when it came from Motörhead’s Lemmy, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee. The […]