alt-J & Wildcat! Wildcat! @ the Crocodile, 12/17 Show Review & Photos by Dagmar alt-J‘s Joe Newman Britain’s – and this year’s winner of that country’s Mercury Prize – alt-J had their first headlining show in Seattle on December 17th, bringing with them Wildcat! Wildcat!. A quartet, alt-J is an unusual band and one I’d […]
Ty Segall, Night Beats & Sandrider @ Neumos, 12/11 Show Review & Photos by Jimmy Lovaas Ty Segall My camera smells like beer and my ears are still ringing. I guess that means the Ty Segall show on Tuesday night lived up to its reputation of being an honest-to-god rock show. First things first though, […]
And now we’ve completed our coverage of Bumbershoot 2012 with Foxy Shazam, the awesome band from Cincinnati. I love them so much I am wearing a Foxy Shazam T-shirt as I type – no lie. I am also thrilled to share these photos as my photos I took of the band when they opened for […]
A Silent Film @ Showbox at the Market, 11/2 Show Review & Photos by Dagmar A Silent Film‘s Robert Stevenson A Silent Film returned to Seattle in early November as part of their tour with Blue October. The quartet from Britain bases itself in Oxford, and I was lucky enough to cover the show (I […]
“Manchasm” was the song that introduced me to Future of The Left. The song, and others such as “The Hope That House Built,” “Real Men Hunt In Packs” and “adeadenemyalwayssmellsgood” off their 2007 debut Curses!, made me ask, where have you, you beautiful dirty steep music, been all my life? The answer was in Wales, […]