Show Preview – Suicide Girls: Blackheart Burlesque @ the Crocodile, Fri. 4/22

Suicide Girls brings their popular show, Blackheart Burlesque, to the Crocodile tomorrow night, Friday April 22nd. The event, which we are always happy to cover on Back Beat Seattle, features an amazing group of women, including ladies from the entire United States, plus international beauties from Brazil, France and beyond. Talented and creative, the artists […]

Photos: The T Sisters @ Tractor Tavern

Erika, Rachel and Chloe Tietjen – collectively known as The T Sisters – played at the Tractor Tavern last week while on tour with The Show Ponies. As always, the Oakland-based siblings put on a great show with terrific harmonies and guitar, drum and bass accompaniment. So good to have them back in Seattle! (L-R) […]

Show Review & Photos: Paul McCartney @ KeyArena

Paul McCartney @ KeyArena, 4/17/16 Show Review & Photos by Dagmar Paul McCartney @ KeyArena in Seattle, April 2016 Paul McCartney played a stunning sold-out show at KeyArena on Sunday evening, in a performance I’d easily run out of positive superlatives to describe. With a band (Rusty Anderson, Brian Ray, Abe Laboriel, Jr. and Paul […]

Photos: Meiko & Marie Digby @ Tractor Tavern

Meiko and Marie Digby recently played at the Tractor Tavern, for the last stop on their Hapa Tour. Hapa – a person of mixed Asian and/or Pacific Islander heritage – was the perfect name since both Meiko and Marie are part Japanese (one-quarter and one-half respectively). Always adding humor to her set, Meiko has been […]

Photos: August Burns Red & Between the Buried and Me w/Good Tiger

Photographer Tino Tran caught the co-headlining show of August Burns Red/Between the Buried and Me in March. The pairing of those two bands was brilliant, as each one is a different style of metal from the other, with just enough of a match to be certain there would definitely be crossover fans. They’ll both be […]