Photos: Anthrax, Killswitch Engage & the Devil Wears Prada @ Showbox SoDo

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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

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Show Preview: Yasmine Hamdan @ the Crocodile, Th. 11/9

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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.

Photos: Róisín Murphy @ Mezzanine

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Róisín Murphy @ Mezzanine, San Francisco, 11/10/16
Photos by Josh Armstrong


Róisín Murphy

Part 16 of Back Beat Seattle’s Memory Lane series features Irish singer-songwriter Róisín Murphy. One of BBS’ photographers, Josh Daniels, made a fall trip to San Francisco, and how could we not help him get a photo pass for this show? Thanks to Murphy’s publicist, permission was granted! The performance included numerous costumes, and Murphy herself, of course, so these are well worth checking out. Murphy, who was the singer in the now disbanded Moloko, received a Mercury Prize nomination in 2016 for Hairless Toys.


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Video: The Kooks’ “Broken Vow”

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Band: The Kooks
Song: “Broken Vow”
Why You Want To Watch: The Kooks made a cool video (literally, there’s ice in it) for “Broken Vow,” one of two new songs on The Best of. . . So Far, a Kooks greatest hits album. Digging in to the Internet drew to my attention that the video’s director, Charlie Paul, helms ITCH FILM, an English ad and creative company. Naturally, I was drawn specifically to the cat section. The Kooks themselves are finishing their newest album, which required that they reschedule the planned 2017 headline tour. Those dates include a June 1st, 2018 appearance at Showbox SoDo.


The Kooks