Photos: Brian Wilson @ the Paramount – & Wilson Returns This Sunday, April 9th!

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Brian Wilson @ the Paramount, 10/8/16
Photos by Tino Tran
w/ a Special Preview: Brian Wilson @ the Paramount, 4/9/17
~Dagmar


Brian Wilson – October 2016

Brian Wilson visited Seattle in October of last year, and thank all the heavens he’s returning tomorrow, Sunday April 9th. I’m so excited the Beach Boy is going to perform songs from Pet Sounds, an album that changed popular music forever. It really did! And Wilson says it’s going to be his final performance of the record. In its entirety.

In a recent interview, Wilson spoke a bit about the tour:

“It’s really been a trip to sit here and think about releasing Pet Sounds 50 years ago,”. . . “I love performing this album with my band and look forward to playing it for fans all across the world.”

We’re also lucky Seattle is one of the dates Beach Boy Al Jardine and former Beach Boy Blondie Chaplin will perform. So check this show out and let all that love and light flow through you. There’s no other sound like The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson. But first, we’ve got Tino Tran’s photos from 2016.

Tickets & more details can be found here.


Brian Wilson

Show Preview: Mitski @ the Neptune, Sat. 4/8

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Show Preview: Mitski @ the Neptune, Sat. 4/8
~Dagmar


Mitski – photo by Ebru Yildiz

Singer-songwriter Mitski has now sold out the Neptune tomorrow night! If you weren’t fortunate enough to get a ticket – or somehow didn’t know about her, which makes me sad, here are 5 things to know about her:

1) The Japanese-American lived all over the world while growing up. For real. Japan (naturally), Turkey, Malaysia? Yes, she was there.

2) Mitski has released four albums. If you know her, you’re probably most familiar with last year’s Puberty 2.

3) She has an outrageously beautiful voice.

4) She’s got a damn fine talent for songwriting and lyrics. My favorite lyric of hers might be I’m holding my breath with a baseball bat in “Townie.”

5) Mitski revealed, in an interview with The Guardian: “If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.” Now that has to speak to so many people.

& keep your spirits up if you can’t catch her on Saturday, she’ll be back (fingers crossed).

Show Review & Photos: Jose’ James Featuring Nate Smith w/ Corey King @ the Triple Door

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Jose’ James @The Triple Door Show 4/2/2017
Review & Photos by John Rudolph

Sometimes life gets crazy busy with work, kids, and other responsibilities and you just want to sit down in a welcoming club with some great food and listen to some deeply soulful music.

Jose’ James was the artist in the perfect venue for a date night with my beautiful wife. Jose’ gave us the opportunity to slow down and enjoy each other’s company and just groove the night away, and we did.

Jose’ James sauntered onto a very dark, somewhat sparse stage and lit it up with his infectious yet engaging personality. James, a neo-jazz / Neo-R&B singer-songwriter has so much personality that he beams.

He started his performance with some slower jams to warm up his crowd and then he took us on a magic carpet ride of his work, followed by some Billie Holiday, and then into the streets with some very dark yet poignant hip hop, and back to a safe landing with some neo-soul by Emily King. Jose’ James didn’t limit himself to just the stage, he strolled out into the audience reaching out his hand and crooned to the ladies. The audience – men and women – ate it up.

This ride sounds dizzying and all over the place, but it wasn’t. The crowd followed Jose’ James thru his vast musical style journey as if he were a Pied Piper. Jose’ James is a true musical artist and someone who has earned his reputation as one of the most innovative jazz singers of his generation, and the Triple Door was the perfect venue to see him in.


Jose’ James

Photos – Ty Segall, Axis: Sova & Gazebos @ Neumos

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Ty Segall, Axis: Sova & Gazebos @ Neumos, 3/3/17
Photos by Monica Martinez


Ty Segall

How cool is this? Ty Segall headlined THREE nights at Neumos in March. We sent photographer Monica Martinez to cover the middle date of March 3rd, featuring openers Axis: Sova and Gazebos.

The brilliant and generous Segall (he’s released nine albums in as many years) now has his very own imprint under Drag City. Called God!, the imprint includes Axis: Sova and Jack Name, among others. Great choices! And Segall himself? He worked with producer Steve Albini on this year’s album, Ty Segall, which has received awesome reviews. Congratulations, garage rock – or whatever it is Segall decides to do – always wins. He’s also an artist (as in painter): his first art show, Assterpiece Theatre, took place in Chicago on March 26th.


Ty Segall


Axis: Sova


Ty Segall


Gazebos

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