Did your favorite win the Sound Off! 2013 Finals? If so, that favorite was Dave B., a hip-hop artist from Seattle. Nabbing second place was Puyallup’s SHEBEAR and taking third place was the Fame Riot, a Tacoma-based glam duo – one of them had Dance Tax Free written across his chest, protesting the proposed dance […]
Carrie Rodriguez recently opened for Ari Hest at the Triple Door in Seattle. She’s touring with Luke Jacobs in support of her latest release, Give Me All You Got. I’ll have the pleasure of seeing Carrie again in a few weeks at SXSW, held in her hometown of Austin, TX. Carrie Rodriguez
Ari Hest performs @ the Triple Door, 2/21 Interview & photos by Heather Fitzpatrick Growing up in the Bronx, New York, Ari Hest had been surrounded by music his whole adolescent life (his father is a college music professor), yet he had always had aspired to become a professional baseball player. It wasn’t until he […]
The View @ the Crocodile, 2/28 Show Review & Photos by Dagmar The View‘s Kyle Falconer Approximately four songs into the View’s superb set on Thursday night in Seattle, a fan yelled, “Six years I’ve waited for this!” And the View’s answer? “So have we.” You don’t know the View? Well that’s not really okay […]
EMP Sound Off! 2013 held the Sound Off! Semifinals #3 on Saturday, February 23rd. And the winner was . . . As It Starts!, a Seattle sextet who lists the Fray and Death Cab for Cutie as influences. Bellingham’s Vervex got the Wild Card spot, while Gig Harbor’s Eye for Eye and another Bellingham act, […]