Show Review & Photos: Natasha Bedingfield @ the Showbox Market

British pop singer and songwriter Natasha Bedingfield headlined at the Showbox at the Market and sang for a very enthusiastic audience. She’s in the middle of her US tour in support of her latest album, Strip Me. It was obvious that Natasha enjoys being close to her fans. There was a lot of interaction with […]

Show Review & Photos: Panic! At the Disco @ Showbox SoDo

The cavernous Showbox SoDo had turned into Seattle’s largest (and noisiest) steam room by the time Panic! At the Disco took the stage, the air filled with shrieks and teenage girlsweat. Standing in the photo pit, I began to understand why security guards wear earplugs — the band is fairly quiet from that vantage, but […]

Photos: Cibo Matto & The Chain Gang of 1974 @ Neumos

Recently reunited Cibo Matto, Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda, performed at Neumos for a truly ecstatic audience last Tuesday evening. The show followed March’s benefit the duo took part in to help victims of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami, and Tuesday’s concert was one of the first shows the band has done since disbanding in 2001. […]

Photos: Cheyenne Marie Mize @ the Fremont Abbey

I saw the talented Cheyenne Marie Mize for the first time in March at SXSW in Austin. Her name recently popped up on the Fremont Abbey’s calendar and I immediately grabbed tickets. Her website says it best … whimsical, haunting, dreamlike folk that’s dynamic and eschews the traditional folk formulae … rugged and gentle, innocent […]