Seattle was the second stop on Meghan Trainor’s North American Untouchable Tour. The sold out show at the WaMu Theater was filled with 7000 moms and daughters. Backed by a seven-member band and flanked by four dancers, Trainor’s 90-minute set included three costume changes. Near the end, she brought four kids on stage during “Friends.” […]
English singer-songwriter Birdy headlined at Neumos on June 29th. The sold-out show was the last on the North American leg of her Beautiful Lies Tour. Birdy and her five-member band thoroughly entertained the audience during their 90-minute show. They ended the main set with “Wings,” played a three-song encore, and wrapped up the evening with […]
Steven Tyler @ McCaw Hall, 7/8/16 Show Review & Photos by John Rudolph On his 19-city “Out On a Limb” tour, Steven Tyler is dipping his toe into the country music world. Tyler’s new song “Red, White, and You” has a country sound, however do country fans take him seriously? For this show at least, […]
The Game @ Showbox SoDo, April 2016 Photos by Casey Brevig The Game Compton, California’s The Game (real name Jayceon Terrell Taylor) headlined Showbox SoDo in April. The rapper, who’s worked with an amazing variety of producers, including Travis Barker and Kanye West, offered his approach to mortality in an interview with Billboard in 2015 […]
Kickin’ Ass and Chewin’ Bubble Gum: John Carpenter‘s Live Retrospective at the Paramount ~Blake Madden “Underpromise and over-deliver” is a motto for service providers, not the kind of sentiment an artist should use. John Carpenter is not your typical artist. He may be the least pretentious man in show business, a director and musician who […]