Photos: The Neighbourhood @ Showbox SoDo

The Neighborhood @ Showbox SoDo, 5/6/16
Photos by Casey Brevig

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Details: They love the black and white, the Neighbourhood sure do. The five-member Californian group requests to be photographed only in black and white, which definitely lends nostalgia and mystery to their look. Black and white is even listed as their genre on Facebook, perhaps as singer Jesse Rutherford is color blind. Perhaps. The band worked with director Warren Kommers (Fitz and the Tantrums, Twenty One Pilots etc.) for their most recent video, “Daddy Issues.”

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Photos: Megs McLean @ Capps Club

Local country singer-songwriter Megs McLean headlined at Capps Club in Kenmore for her last show of the year. Backed by Tim Fernley (bass), Ilya Ignatov (guitar) and Josh Willaert (drums), Megs sang songs from her EP, Out Of School, as well as several covers. Be sure to see her at one of several shows around Seattle in January. Megs and her band took a few minutes after their set for some portraits.


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Video: The 1975’s “Somebody Else”

Band: The 1975
Why You Want to Watch: I can’t say how much I love the 1975’s song “Somebody Else.” A lot! I love it loads. The video for it, directed by Tim Mattia (who’s directed other videos for the band), is an unsettling but beautiful night in the life of singer Matthew Healy’s imagination. Healy gets to display more of his acting chops (makes sense, his parents are actors) in the piece the label’s presser describes like this: Picking up where the video for “A Change Of Heart” left off, “Somebody Else” continues to see the band taking their unique aesthetic to new heights. . . [it] follows Healy through the murky world of a Lynchian night-time London, struggling with self -obsession in the face of heart-break.”

Photos: Kris Orlowski @ the Crocodile

Kris Orlowski w/ the Hollers & Silver Torches, 5/6/16
Photos by Kirsey Sutton

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Details: Seattle’s Kris Orlowski celebrated the release of his 2016 release, Often in the Pause, at the Crocodile in May. Bonus: the album is available on the very cool vinyl. Double bonus and congratulations: Orlowski got engaged in August! Congratulations to him and his special lady. For May’s show, Orlowski was joined by two additional Seattle acts, the Hollers and Silver Torches.

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Photos: VHS @ the Black Lodge

VHS w/Creative Adult & GAG @ the Black Lodge, 4/21/16
Photos by Monica Martinez

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Details: Seattle’s – and Reno, Nevada’s – punk band VHS (Violent Human System) headlined the DIY venue the Black Lodge in April. After releasing its debut, Choking on the Fruit, last year, VHS has gotten quite a large number of local shows. That list of shows includes a spot on Macefield Music Festival’s lineup. VHS was joined by Creative Adult, a Bay Area band, and Olympia’s GAG.

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