Artist: Little Boots
Song: “Taste It”
Why you want to watch: Creepy use of food, body parts and scissors.
Details: First track from Little Boots’ upcoming EP, Business Pleasure; Little Boots has sung with Gary Numan; Little Boots said, “NO MODELS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO.”
Photos: Bumbershoot – Day 1 w/ Walk the Moon, Mac DeMarco, the Both & Wu-Tang Clan
After exploring the schedule for Bumbershoot, a few of the artists photographers Abby Williamson and Simon Krane selected to cover on day one included Walk the Moon, Mac Demarco, the Both and Wu-Tang Clan. By the way, the big breakthrough from Cincinnati, Walk the Moon are set to release their second album with RCA in December (oh hi, present alert!), and music fans are also thrilled to see the joining of Ted Leo and Aimee Mann to form the Both. Mac DeMarco’s April Fool’s Day 2014 release, Salad Days, failed to win the Polaris Music Prize, but. . . well, whatever. Wu-Tang played their set after Elvis Costello, which was just a peculiar “pairing” at the festival.
Walk the Moon‘s Nicholas Petricca – photo by Abby Williamson
Mac DeMarco – photos by Abby Williamson
The Both – photos by Simon Krane
Walk the Moon – photos by Abby Williamson
Wu-Tang Clan – photo by Abby Williamson
Walk the Moon – photos by Abby Williams
Photos: Frankie Rose @ Barboza
Frankie Rose played at Barboza last week nearing the end of her headlining west coast tour. Joined by her band put together with New York performers specifically for the tour, Rose performed numerous songs from her second full-length album, Herein Wild, as well as Interstellar released in 2012. One reason I enjoy Rose’s music is that she is a former member of two of my favorites – Vivian Girls and Dum Dum Girls.
Frankie Rose
Photos: Bumbershoot – Day 1 w/ the Afghan Whigs, G-Eazy, Cumulus & Modern Kin
It may seem unlikely that, now it feels like winter in Seattle, just a bit ago there was some warmth in the city, when the Afghan Whigs performed at Bumbershoot. Plus we had G-Eazy and Pacific Northwest artists Cumulus and Modern Kin on the festival’s stages. A few important updates on these artists: The Afghan Whigs released their first album in sixteen years with Do to the Beast; G-Eazy returns to Seattle for a sold-out show at Showbox SoDo on November 24th; Cumulus plays the Sunset Tavern with Shelby Earl on December 4th, and Modern Kin has some live dates scheduled for the end of November!
The Afghan Whigs – photo by Simon Krane
The Afghan Whigs – photos by Abby Williamson
The Afghan Whigs – photos by Simon Krane
G-Eazy – photos by Kirk Stauffer
Cumulus – photos by Abby Williamson
Modern Kin – photos by Simon Krane
Show Review & Photos: Margaret Cho @ Tacoma Comedy Club
Margaret Cho @ Tacoma Comedy Club, 11/5/14
Show Review & Photos by Geoffrey Gribbin
Margaret Cho
On a rainy evening in Tacoma, Washington Margaret Cho takes the stage, her gritty humor and raw edginess are spared not. She immediately dives into her routine with a vengeance, including references to her fallen comrades. Her closeness to Joan Rivers and Robin Williams have her visibly shaken as she recounts stories with them – including talk of the funeral for Joan Rivers, with countless comedians in attendance. Howard Stern delivered a tearful eulogy, and we feel as though we are almost there with them all.
At times this evening seems cathartic for Cho. For a rockstar lifestyle now at an impasse by divorce and drug addiction, including stories of drug use with Anna Nicole Smith, Cho is embarking on a new journey of rediscovery of who she is in a world overrun with headlines of women haters and anti-homosexual sentiment. She proudly proclaims herself the biggest fag hag she knows to the cheers of the audience.
Her routine is sprinkled with feminism but in general is raunchy to the core. At one point Margaret declares she would like to kill with a gun all rapists, Catholic priests, most football stars, and numerous celebrities who have inflicted abuse upon the innocent people of the world. Some she would give a ten yard running head start. Click, click, boom.
The quote of the evening boils down to this: “There is no I in team, but you can’t spell psycho without Cho.”
Margaret Cho