Bless Kirk Stauffer for coming back from Bumbershoot with these photos of band Warpaint. Warpaint is an all-female quartet from Los Angeles with a seductive and stirring sound. Their debut LP, The Fool, came out on Rough Trade Records last year.
Summer may be almost over, but it was a warm one at the Seattle Center! The BEST hair of Bumbershoot: photos by Amber Barni It band, Tennis gave a surprisingly rocking show. And the guitarist Patrick Riley resembled Franz Ferdinand’s frontman Alex Kapranos – never a bad thing, IMO. Tennis – photos by Amber Barni […]
Seattle finally found its blue sky, just in time for Bumbershoot: Kris Orlowski was described as a troubadour, but when I saw the cello, violin, drums, guitar, etc. –I was hooked. Wagons hark from Australia–by way of the deep southern USA. I created the genre “nerdish country” just for them.
I had the good fortune to see and photograph The Dave Matthews Band at The Gorge on Sunday night. The amphitheatre was packed for 3 days with the largest and most enthusiastic crowd that I had ever seen there. Dave and the boys eased onto the stage in their laid-back style and the crowd was […]
Mavis Staples sings gospel and rhythm and blues, and this year she won a Grammy award for her album, You Are Not Alone. Little Dragon is a band from Sweden who just released their third album. Each act performed at Bumbershoot on Friday, and we’ve got pix from Kirk Stauffer to prove it. Mavis Staples […]