Interview & Show Preview: Future of The Left @ Neumos, Sun. 11/11

“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, […]

Interview & Photos: Greg Holden @ The Fremont Abbey w/Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino of A Great Big World

The week before Halloween, Seattle was given a real treat. Scotland born singer-songwriter, Greg Holden, (on tour with Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino of A Great Big World) played his first show in Seattle at The Fremont Abbey. I sat down to chat with him just after soundcheck to see what he’s been up to, […]

Interview: Andrew Bailey of DIIV

Interview with DIIV‘s Andrew Bailey by Holly Cartwright DIIV This is a conversation I had with Andrew Bailey, guitarist from Brooklyn-based four-piece group DIIV. He had already made it back to the East Coast, and this was his last night of summer touring before safely landing back in NYC. We began the conversation by talking […]

Interview & Show Preview: The Hives @ Showbox at the Market, Fri. 9/7

At least in America, Swedish band The Hives were barely legal when they released their first LP, Barely Legal in 1997. Most band members were around the age of eighteen years old, and they began their ascent to international stardom at an age when many Swedish men become eligible for Sweden’s then mandatory military service. […]