Sugar Blue @ Jazz Alley, 1/10/2011 by Marianne Spellman Seattle R&B fans came in from the cold last night to hear one of the masters– Sugar Blue. One of the world’s top blues harpists, the versatile Blue (born James Whiting in Harlem) packed the house at Jazz Alley on a Monday early set with a […]
I had the gracious opportunity to shoot KISW’s annual Christmas show titled KISW Holiday Hangover Le-Ball-Ski, which took place at the Showbox Sodo. This year the station went balls to the wall and had a theme based on the 1998 Coen brothers film The Big Lebowski, with many of the station jocks dressed as characters […]
Deck the Hall Ball, the annual holiday concert event put on by 107.7 The End, happened last Wednesday at WaMu Theater, featuring Broken Bells and The Black Keys as the headlining acts, and special appearances by The Presidents of the United State of America and Santa and Jesus. The full evening of music kicked off […]
The Dandy Warhols show is made for a venue like the Showbox. Their sound filled the room effortlessly and the bohemians, out in full force, were dancing throughout the entire set.
Gwar came out shooting blood pretty much right away. Okay it wasn’t actual blood, but special Gwar blood, and there was plenty of it. All over. Everywhere. Everything. Everybody. First red blood, coming from various puppet heads and a mutant (and mutilated?) dog puppet. Then there was the green blood that partly spewed out of […]