Videos: Adam Lambert, Gringo Star & Dead Sara

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If you missed Adam Lambert on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, here’s video of Lambert performing his new song, “Better Than I Know Myself.” Adam Lambert’s second album, Trespassing, will see a March 20th, 2012 release.


Adam Lambert – photo courtesy of adamofficial.com

 

 

Gringo Star, a quartet from Atlanta, has a new video for “Count Yer Lucky Stars,” the title track from their latest album. I’ve been listening to this album a lot, and recommend it.

 

Gringo Star

 

 

I saw Dead Sara open for Bush last year. This is one powerful band, and they announced today they’ll be on Vans Warped Tour in 2012. Enjoy “Weatherman.”

Dead Sara – photo courtesy of Jed Root


Photos: Ivan & Alyosha @ the Neptune

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New Year’s Eve saw Seattle’s Ivan & Alyosha opening for Brandi Carlile at the Neptune. We’ll have photographer Amy Elyse’s photos of Brandi Carlile up for you very soon – first up we’ve got some of Elyse’s gorgeous Ivan & Alyosha shots. Their EP, Fathers Be Kind, was one of last year’s best releases. You can check out Back Beat Seattle’s prior coverage of the band here.


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Show Review & Photos: Pickwick & Campfire OK @ the Neptune

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Pickwick & Campfire OK @ the Neptune, 12/8
Show Review & Photos by Abby Williamson

As I am writing about what became the final concert I saw in 2011, I can’t help but feel incredibly warm and fuzzy inside. Pickwick and Campfire OK co-headlining the Neptune Theater was a perfect way to end 2011 for me, as I was in Australia for the rest of the month of December and didn’t get a chance to see more shows. But I think it’s better that way.


Campfire OK


Pickwick

After being involved in this lovely little music scene we call our own here in Seattle for 2 years now, I feel like I actually belong now, and this show further exemplified it.

Not only were two of the best emerging local bands headlining. Jessica Dobson and Deep Sea Diver brought the house down, and I use that cliché wisely. She was phenomenal. No wonder the Shins brought her along as guitarist for their recent tour. I was blown away, and it was just getting started.

While the bands on the bill were the highlight of the evening, the rest of the theater was ripe with other local artists, even if there were other shows going on downtown. I spotted members of Hey Marseilles, The Local Strangers, Lemolo, Kris Orlowski, and Noah Gundersen several times. It just goes to show you how much love there is in this city.

Then Campfire OK took the stage, and they are by far the most adorable thing to come out of this city. So humble and gracious to be in a venue that Jimmy Hendrix once played. Did you know that? It’s so cool!

But their set was beyond what I expected. They played through some of my favourite songs off Strange Like We Are, as well as some new tracks that they tested on us all. Whatever this band does – I’m on board. And speaking of Noah Gundersen, he was Mychal’s guitar tech through their set. I kept half-expecting him to come and bust a song out with them, but he sat on the side of the stage, enjoying it with the rest of us, helping Mychael switch out his guitars every so often. The Neptune was a bunch of musical gumbo that night.


Pickwick


Campfire OK

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