Haley Reinhart – American Idol finalist in 2011 – brought her What’s That Sound? Tour to Chop Suey, one of the first stops. Reinhart and her four-member band are on the road in support of her third studio album with the same name. The show was the day before Halloween, so on several occasions, she threw handfuls of candy into the audience. The evening ended with a three-song encore, complete with costume change. Portland-based singer-songwriter Moorea Masa and her band The Mood opened.
Florida Georgia Line & Granger Smith @ the Tacoma Dome, 11/11/16
Photos by Kirsey Sutton
Florida Georgia Line
Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, from Georgia and Florida, respectively, comprise the country duo we know as Florida Georgia Line. They’ve been nominated for – and won – so many awards you start to lose count. And the awards are from a huge variety of organizations, from Billboard to Teen Choice Awards to CMA Awards. Really impressive. The Tacoma Dome appearance they made in 2016 was just one date of their Dig Your Roots Tour, which found its roots in the album, Dig Your Roots. If you’ve been paying attention to them this year (we hope you have), you’ll know one of their projects is “Meant to Be,” a collaboration with Bebe Rexhe. Texan Granger Smith provide support for this concert, which we’re sharing as part 17 of our Memory Lane series.
Florida Georgia Line
Granger Smith
Anthrax, Killswitch Engage & the Devil Wears Prada @ Showbox SoDo 4/25/17
Photos by Josh Daniels
Joey Belladonna of Anthrax
Anthrax. Killswitch Engage. Together they are Killthrax, a great metal combination. Turns out the Killthrax Tour earlier this year was so successful (our date was April 25), the bands will join forces again in 2018 for Killthrax II. Dates for that tour are now set, starting in January. Those shows will have Havok as openers. This year’s tour had hardcore quartet the Devil Wears Prada, who just partnered with Metric Coffee to combine coffee with a special TDWP mug, open the co-headlining tour. No one asked us to mention the coffee, it’s just a cool thing.
Killswitch Engage‘s Jesse Leach
Anthrax
Danielle Bradbery – winner of The Voice in 2013 at age 16 – headlined at Steel Creek in Tacoma. The singer is on the road in support of her upcoming sophomore studio album, I Don’t Believe We’ve Met. The show was sponsored by local country radio station, The Wolf.
Show Preview: Yasmine Hamdan @ the Crocodile, Thursday 11/9
~Dagmar
Yasmine Hamdan – photo by Tania Feghali
What a great opportunity this is to see Lebanese electronic artist Yasmine Hamdan at the Crocodile tomorrow night, Thursday November 9th. Seattle is just one of her three West Coast United States dates (along with San Francisco and Los Angeles)! Hamdan, who gained icon status in the band Soapkills, branched out as a solo artist with 2013’s Ya Nass; she’s returned this year by giving fans Al Jamilat. Now based in Paris, Hamdan’s emerged as a powerful voice in world music – and a female voice, at that – also receiving a 2014 Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for “Hal,” which appeared in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive. She’s using her presence and sultry voice to call attention to many important issues, describing her themes as “relationships, manipulation, self-reflection, self-mocking, deception, lust, sin, fear, love and rebellion.”
Show is all ages! Get more details here.
