Show Preview: Suicide Girls @ the Showbox, Wed. 5/2

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Show Preview – Suicide Girls: Blackheart Burlesque @ the Showbox, Wed. 5/2
~Dagmar

Suicide Girls are back! And you only need to be at least 18 years old to attend, because this is art. Anyone seeing photos of the show or going to the show knows this is art, and we at Back Beat Seattle love these girls. All women are beautiful! Last time they were here, they were dancing stormtroopers (big thumbs up from me, I adore stormtroopers and you should, too). Who knows what they’ll be up to this time (Stranger Things, anyone?). Respect the fact that the girls are the self-proclaimed “daughters of Bettie Page,” and they will do whatever they want. Oh, and entertain you, naturally.

For details & tickets, please head over to the Showbox’s event page.

Music: Kaskade/Phoebe Ryan/LöKii – “Almost Back”

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Artist: Kaskade/Phoebe Ryan/LöKii
Song: “Almost Back”
Why You Want to Watch: New track combining the talents of Kaskade, Phoebe Ryan and LöKii, is out now! “Almost Back” makes me wish these three would work together as often as they possibly can. Ryan’s vocals are so sweet. Kaskade described that voice: “Phoebe came in and just put these angelic vocals over it and completely nailed the sort of painful – but more importantly, hopeful – sentiment of what it’s all about.”

Photos: Kelsea Ballerini @ Showbox SoDo

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Kelsea Ballerini and her four-member band played a sold-out show at Showbox SoDo. It was the second to the last stop on her Unapologetically Tour, supporting her new album of the same name. She began the show by playing the album start to finish, then followed up with songs from her previous record. The evening ended with only Kelsea onstage for an acoustic version of her Platinum-selling “Love Me Like You Mean It.”


Kelsea Ballerini

Photos: Real Estate & Bedouine @ Neumos

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Real Estate & Bedouine @ Neumos, 2/21/18
Photos by Lisa Hagen Glynn


Real Estate‘s Martin Courtney

In February 2018, New Jersey quintet Real Estate played the top of the bill at Neumos. In addition to releasing a new album, In Mind, last year, the now-New York-based band had their own shoes made! How many bands have done that? I don’t think that many. Fans who love merchandise will adore them. (Disclaimer: No one asked us to mention the shoes). International singer Bedouine opened.


Real Estate


Bedouine

Photos: Regina Spektor @ the Paramount

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Regina Spektor @ the Paramount, 4/3/17
Photos by Kirsey Sutton
Memory Lane Series, part 30


Regina Spektor

Wonderful pianist and singer-songwriter Regina Spektor headlined the Paramount Theatre for a spring show in April, 2017. The Russian-born artist’s most recent album, 2016’s Remember Us to Life, included an incredible group of string artists, from cellists to violinists to double bassists. Some of those string players were onstage with her. Lovely! Cute side note for 2018: Spektor’s, husband, musician Jack Dishel, appeared in his second full-length movie, Wanderland, this year.


Regina Spektor