The incredible Sigur Rós, an Icelandic band utilizing every instrument from bowed guitar to glockenspiel to oboe, visited Seattle on September 20th with a headlining show at the Paramount. For the concert, Sigur Rós was a bit stripped down, without brass and string sections. American concerts are set up through September and first half of […]
On May 29th, Los Angeles’ La Sera, comprised of Todd Wisenbaker and Vivian Girls’ Katy Goodman, performed at Barboza. The formerly Hardly Art-signed duo started in 2010, and recently they moved over to Polyvinyl Records. The result of that move? Music for Listening to Music to, produced by Ryan Adams. Photographer Simon Krane captured photos […]
Canada’s Basia Bulat shared new songs from her fourth album, Good Advice, with Seattle during a February visit to Barboza. She certainly performed other material, and not to take away from Bulat’s previous work, but Good Advice was produced by My Morning Jacket’s Jim James. . . Bulat, whose debut made the shortlist for Polaris […]
Escondido, a folk rock duo from Nashville, Tennessee, headlined the Tractor in April. Jessica Maros, from Vancouver, Canada, who worked with Band of Horses’ Bill Reynolds in another pairing, KUZIN, and Taylor James, a Mount Vernon, Washington-born touring band member of several bands, including Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, comprise the band. See what […]
Tina Dico, a singer-songwriter from Denmark, performed at the Triple Door in May. For the show, she brought fellow musician (and her husband), Helgi Jónsson, with whom she’ll have a set of September performances in Germany. Some big news since the Seattle date, and just announced by Dico on her Facebook page: she’s pregnant with […]