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 […]
K. Flay is a genius. The singer’s beats are hypnotic, her lyrics just so damn witty, and her delivery is second to none. I saw the San Francisco hip hop artist’s second appearance in Seattle on Monday, and next time she’s here you must check her out. She can rap fast (I mean really fast, […]
Gang of Four is one of the very important British bands, with influence all over the musical landscape. This year they released Content, their eighth album – and first in sixteen years. What Jon King and Andy Gill bring out in Content is a selection of ten destructively sexy songs, placing them freshly in the […]
Imagine the best block party you could ever attend – fun and friendly, people hauling out their smokin’ dance moves, smiling, singing along to one of the hottest Latin-rockin’-funkin’ bands ever. That was the celebratory atmosphere as legendary group WAR began a four-night run at Seattle’s Jazz Alley. A very diverse crowd of all races […]
There’s only one problem with Interpol – they just might spoil other bands for you. I saw them for the first time in Seattle in 2003 (after the release of Turn on the Bright Lights and the Interpol EP), and that sealed my status as a fan. They set a mood so well with their […]