Brooklyn-based Elizabeth & The Catapult, fronted by Elizabeth Ziman, played a fantastic, but unintended solo set at the Neptune Theater. The drummer was stranded in New York because of Snowmageddon 2015, but an audience member in the front would fill-in with random drum sounds. I saw Elizabeth & The Catapult for the first time at […]
Cirque du Soleil‘s KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities @ Marymoor Park, 1/29/15 Review by Dagmar KURIOS Entrance – photo by Dagmar Cirque de Soleil‘s KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities opened at Marymoor Park on Thursday evening to an excited, and sold-out audience. The show, which premiered only last year in Montreal, featured acrobats, contortionists, live […]
Twin Shadow had one of the fullest photo pits (and largest outdoor crowds) I saw at Bumbershoot last year. Photographer Simon Krane was there as well, and so Back Beat Seattle had two photographers to capture pictures of the very photogenic Twin Shadow and band (yes!!!). Want more Twin Shadow? He’ll return to Seattle on […]
Australia’s Wolfmother hit the Neptune in Seattle on July 31, 2014. The very rocking trio released its first album in five years, New Crown, also in 2014. Welcome back, Wolfmother! We missed you. With them was Electric Citizen, a Cincinnati, Ohio band including husband and wife Ross and Laura Dolan. All photos by Monica Martinez: […]
Seattle was the first stop on Brooke Fraser’s Brutal Romantic Tour. The sold-out show was also her first show in three years. Brooke and her three-member band played songs off her new album, Brutal Romantic, which was released last November, as well as alternate versions of her older songs. The style of her music has […]