Battles @ the Neptune, 10/7/15 Show Review & Photos by Dagmar Battles‘ Ian Williams New York’s Battles played with huge energy during their set at the Neptune on October 7th. Each moment of the show put many audience members in a trance of hopping around; those who didn’t hop also looked very focused. Again, the […]
Gentlemen of the Road Stopover brought its incredible lineup, including Mumford & Sons, the Flaming Lips, the Vaccines and so many others, to Walla Walla in August. A record label and events promoter, Gentlemen of the Road’s Stopovers take place internationally. For more on Gentlemen of the Road’s history, I recommend you listen to a […]
UK powerhouse vocalist Jess Glynne recently graced the stage at Barboza on Capitol Hill. Jess, her four-member band, and two backup singers supplied an evening of great music. R&B with a lot of soul, Jess is supporting her new album, I Cry When I Laugh, during her Ain’t Got Far To Go Tour. Last month, […]
What a huge variety of bands photographers Simon Krane and Kirk Stauffer covered during Bumbershoot‘s second day! On tap was rock from, among others, Social Distortion and Fox and the Law, plus the rad new wave goth hybrid that is Eliot Sumner. And then there was bluegrass band Punch Brothers, reunited punk rock band Dead […]
James Vincent McMorrow, an Irish singer-songwriter from Dublin came to Seattle in August. Now, Wikipedia claims McMorrow is left-handed but plays guitar right-handed. How that happened, who can say? We can say that McMorrow is on a very interesting label, Vagrant, home to the 1975, Band of Skulls, PJ Harvey and others. You can hear […]