November 15th saw Alice Cooper sweep into Tacoma for a gig at Emerald Queen Casino. Cooper, prolific with 26 albums, ended his Raise the Dead tour at EQC. And if you didn’t know, Alice Cooper got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. All photos by Geoffrey Gribbin: Alice Cooper
Lighthouses are cool. Thomas Dolby thinks so too – so much that he made a film, The Invisible Lighthouse, about them. The film has won awards at film festivals in the States already, and on November 18th Dolby brought the film and his music to the Showbox at the Market. For the evening Dolby played […]
Robert DeLong @ the Neptune, 11/5 Show Review & Photos by Dagmar Robert DeLong Our own Robert DeLong (okay, he’s technically from Bothell, Washington) was here in November to open for Twenty One Pilots. He’s based in Los Angeles now and released his debut full-length album, Just Movement in 2013 and it is excellent. It’s […]
A world without Slayer would be a sad place indeed. This band’s music is a thing of great beauty, and we’re always thrilled to feature Slayer on Back Beat Seattle. They’ve also got cool fans, including one who put together a holiday light show to Slayer tunes in dedication to the late – and missed […]
KEXP presented its fourth annual Reykjavik Calling, a free event with concerts by artists from Iceland and Seattle. Pretty cool. In case you did not know, Reykjavik is our Icelandic sister city, and KEXP matched up the Seattle and Reykjavik artists to see what would happen. Here’s some photographic evidence by Simon Krane: Hermigervill & […]