What do you get when you combine former members of Sunny Day Real Estate, Wilco, the Mountain Goats, and Poi Dog Pondering with a Oscar nominated actor and set them loose on the catalog of one of our most revered and fondly remembered rock bands? The answer at the Neptune Theatre Friday night was ‘Michael […]
Alt rock progenitor and charming eccentric Robyn Hitchcock played a satisfying and memorable show to a full house at the Neptune Theater Friday night. Hitchcock has amassed a large and enthusiastic following during his 5 decades in music, a decent chunk of that time spent as a resident of the Pacific Northwest. He and his […]
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit played the Paramount Theater Friday evening, his first visit to Washington State since the summer of 2024. Isbell released his 10th post Drive By Truckers album in 2025, ‘Foxes in the Snow’. The release is his first solo acoustic album and it has been nominated for 3 Grammy awards, […]
Guitarists JD Simo and Luther Dickinson, drummer Adam Abrash, and vocalist Datrian Johnson played what will likely prove to be (for me) one of the musical highlights of 2026 at the Tractor Tavern in Ballard this week. Simo and Dickinson are touring in support of their first collaboration, ‘Do the Rump’ (released in late 2024), with […]
The Neptune Theatre hosted a raucous and well-attended New Year’s Eve show last night featuring a pair of the Pacific Northwest’s most enduring and historically significant rock bands, Mudhoney and Student Nurse. The evening’s headliners were preceded by a short and enthusiastically received performance by folk/punk acoustic guitarist Barton Carroll. Seattle’s Mudhoney is celebrating their […]