Show Review & Photos: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Showbox SoDo

Posted on 11/18/2016 by Dagmar

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Showbox SoDo, 10/20/16
~Review & Photos by Dagmar

Black Rebel Motorcycle’s first and second releases, B.R.M.C. and Take Them On, On Your Own brought excellent psychedelic music into the 21st century. Those two albums were my introductions to the band, who, with their ability to create psychedelic and bluesy music, has remained a favorite of mine. The show last month in Seattle paid special attention to those albums with the setlist predominantly featuring tracks off them.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club‘s Peter Hayes

I’m pretty sure everyone in the audience was wearing black (really, no joke) at their Seattle show last month. I mention this because, while Seattle audiences wear a lot of black, the BRMC crowd wore black times ten. This is fine with me (whenever I shop for clothes, and if it’s not black, I want to know if it comes in black. It’s automatic). So I felt very at home in a BRMC fanbase: we’re all into an almost goth psychedelia.

The trio, Peter Hayes, Robert Levon Been and Leah Shapiro, played several of my top early BRMC songs such as “Spread Your Love,” “Awake,” “Whatever Happened to My Rock ‘n’ Roll (Punk Song)” and “Six Barrel Shotgun” along with newer tracks “Beat the Devil’s Tattoo” and “Let the Day Begin, plus unreleased tracks “Bandung Hum” and “Haunt.” What a fantastic setlist. And hearing these musicians play and watching them perform is a an extraordinary experience. There’s talent, and then there’s talent shared in this band. The word intense might get overused, but BRMC owns that word. Completely.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

More Photos of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Showbox SoDo

Setlist – Seattle, October 20th 2016:

Bandung Hum – unreleased
Rival – Specter at the Feast
Beat the Devil’s Tattoo – Beat the Devil’s Tattoo
Let the Day Begin – Specter at the Feast
Ain’t No Easy Way – Howl
Berlin – Baby 81
Haunt – unreleased
Shuffle Your Feet – Howl
In Like the Rose – Take Them On, On Your Own
Conscience Killer – Beat the Devil’s Tattoo
US Government – Take Them On, On Your Own
Red Eyes and Tears – B.R.M.C.
Awake – B.R.M.C.
Six Barrel Shotgun – Take Them On, On Your Own
Spread Your Love – B.R.M.C.
Whatever Happened to My Rock ‘n’ Roll (Punk Song) – B.R.M.C.

Photos: Bumbershoot – Day 2 w/ JoJo, Explosions in the Sky, Black Joe Lewis & More

Posted on 11/15/2016 by BBS

Singer and former child star JoJo (Joanna Noëlle Blagden Levesque), all grown up and now on the Atlantic label, was another wonderful artist Bumbershoot on its 2016 lineup. Her new album, Mad Love – her first in ten years – is out now. Texas’ loud instrumentalists Explosions in the Sky and Black Joe Lewis represented their state. The Front Bottoms, an indie band from the small New Jersey borough of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey singer Donna Missal, and Nashville duet Escondido brought additional variety to Bumbershoot. And last, but not least in this post is Seattle’s Lemolo, who plays St. Mark’s Cathedral (accompanied by a string orchestra) on December 2nd.

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Photos: Bumbershoot 2016 – Day 2 w/ Hinds, Marshmello, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis & Rabbit Wilde

Posted on 11/14/2016 by Kirk

Spanish band Hinds returned to Seattle this summer for a very welcome visit. And who got them? Bumbershoot, of course! Also great guests on hand for day two of the festival were Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Marshmello and Rabbit Wilde. Marshmello had so many tour dates this year, but watch out for Marshmello imposters. They are out there. The second part of photos from day two to be released tomorrow, November 15th.

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Show Preview: Rising Appalachia @ the Showbox, Th. 11/10

Posted on 11/09/2016 by Dagmar

Show Preview: Rising Appalachia @ the Showbox, Thursday November 10th
~Dagmar

Rising Appalachia – photo by Chad Hess

Rising Appalachia, a wonderful folk band including sisters Chloe Smith and Leah Song, makes an appearance in Seattle on November 10th. The show, set to take place at the Showbox, a venue big enough to let fans know Rising Appalachia has serious appreciation, yet intimate enough for those fans to experience the band in a beautiful environment where you can actually see the group, is part of the Resiliency Tour.

Mixing American sounds from the group’s native Appalachia and world influences (especially international drums), Rising Appalachia found inspiration for their latest album, Wider Circles and said album’s title track, from Austrian poet Rainier Maria Rilke. They also honor Rilke by focusing on his mysterious – and questioning spirit – with the band’s tour promo photo: I’ve been circling for thousands of years and I still don’t know: am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song?, part of the poet’s “Wider Circles.” Maybe you can you be all these things?

Smith and Song have musical lives. I am impressed by their combination of lifestyle and art, with a focus on the world and how we – and music – fit in. It doesn’t come across as preachy, which could happen while working along these lines. It’s always pretty.

Photos: T Sisters @ Nectar Lounge

Posted on 11/09/2016 by Kirk

Siblings Erika, Rachel and Chloe Tietjen – the T Sisters – headlined at the Nectar Lounge in support of their new self-titled album, T Sisters. This was the second visit to Seattle this year for the Oakland-based band and their music is always welcome. Accompanying the sisters were Steve Height (bass), Andy Allen-Fahlander (mandolin/guitar) and Marlon Aldana (drums/percussion). Portland-based Moorea Masa opened, with harmonizing vocals by Margaret Gibson Wehr and Mel Guérison.

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