The lineup for 2011 Sasquatch! Music Festival was announced last night at the Showbox Market. Big headliners for this year include Foo Fighters, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, Wilco, the Flaming Lips, the Decemberists, Bright Eyes, Iron & Wine, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Bassnectar, and Robyn. Other bands I’d particularly look forward to are Chromeo, […]
Billed as “An Evening With Sarah McLachlan And Friends,” Sarah’s sold-out show featured a few songs by Butterfly Boucher (bass, vocals) and Melissa McClelland (guitar, vocals). They played for three hours with a short intermission. The first half of the photos were shot from in front of the stage, and the second half from the […]
Friday night’s Motörhead set ripped open with “We Are Motörhead,” off 2000’s We Are Motörhead. Its lyrics include we shoot power to your heart, a mighty thunderbolt/ we charge all batteries, we save your soul, and I didn’t doubt these promises at all when it came from Motörhead’s Lemmy, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee. The […]
K. Flay is a genius. The singer’s beats are hypnotic, her lyrics just so damn witty, and her delivery is second to none. I saw the San Francisco hip hop artist’s second appearance in Seattle on Monday, and next time she’s here you must check her out. She can rap fast (I mean really fast, […]
Rolling Stone magazine described Led Zeppelin as “the biggest band of the 1970s” and “the heaviest band of all time”. With 300 million albums sold worldwide, 7 Billboard number 1 albums, Led Zeppelin was one of the most prolific and legendary rock bands ever. Trying to emulate such a band would be a tall order […]
