This past Friday night at the Crocodile had the most explosive show I’ve ever attended there. It was the third of four days of the first ever City Arts Fest and Brent Amaker and the Rodeo‘s CD release show for their third album, Please Stand By. Kicking off the night was local hip-hop artist Ra […]
The Drums. The Drums. The Drums. I will not forget this band. Stylized and elegant in performance and sound, I was pleasantly shocked by their set the other week at Neumos. You would think they were a British band and not from Brooklyn (yes, check their MySpace and see their influences: Orange Juice, the Smiths, […]
Rusko is on fire, that’s for sure. I was able to stand a little bit next to this fire at his recent appearance at the Showbox Market. The dubstep star displayed the heavy prowess of his sound – it’s kind of like if some electronic music is sheer pop, then Rusko is like excellent metal. […]
The So So Glos are just yummy. The New York band opened for the Futureheads in Seattle on September 14th, and as with co-openers Young the Giant, I am eagerly waiting for them to return here and have a headlining slot. It’s pretty much obvious that would like this band, what with their classic arrangement […]
The Futureheads are a demonically exciting band. They sound like no other band and they are one of my top bands to see live. I hate that I ever missed a show of theirs here – the fact that these misses could not be avoided, and that one was replaced by seeing them in Vancouver […]