Springtime Carnivore, fronted by Greta Morgan, played a sold out show at the Tractor Tavern last week. It was the first stop of their short west coast tour with the Fruit Bats. Backed by Kathleen Cruger (keys) and Dasha Shleyeva (bass), Morgan played numerous songs off her most recent album, Midnight Room, which was released in October. They’ll be back on the road in March with The Head and the Heart.
Springtime Carnivore (L-R: Kathleen Cruger, Greta Morgan, Dasha Shleyeva)
Grant-Lee Phillips @ the Triple Door, 5/17/16
Photos by Amy Elyse
Details: Singer-songwriter and Nashville-based Grant-Lee Phillips visited Seattle last May. Phillips, also an actor (catch him on Gilmore Girls!!), released his eighth solo album, The Narrows, in 2016. His most recent appearance on Gilmore Girls included a Christmas song, “Winter Glow.” European fans will have several Grant-Lee Philips’ February dates to look forward to, while the U.S. gets him in March.
Grant-Lee Phillips
The Neighborhood @ Showbox SoDo, 5/6/16
Photos by Casey Brevig
The Neighbourhood
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.”
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.
Megs McLean
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.”
