Photos: Vans Warped Tour w/Against Me!, The Ready Set & Asking Alexandria

Vans Warped Tour ’11 made its annual trip to Gorge, Washington’s Gorge Ampitheatre with a huge number bands. Against Me!, The Ready Set and Asking Alexandria were just three of those bands, and photographer Graham Lee caught these acts in action (and many more – those photos will be up shortly):


Against Me!


The Ready Set


Asking Alexandria

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Photos: The Vaccines @ Showbox SoDo

The Vaccines are delicious. The exciting London band opened for Arctic Monkeys at Showbox SoDo recently and completely blew my mind. I’ve been compulsively listening to their debut, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?, and what an absolute stunner of a CD it is. Seattle gets lucky again because The Vaccines will headline the Crocodile on Thursday, September 8th.

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Photos: Sade @ KeyArena

On Sunday night British artist Sade packed Seattle’s KeyArena as part of a tour that follows the release of The Ultimate Collection, a CD which features my favorite Sade song, “Hang on to Your Love.” Sade is actually the name of the band, though we all commonly refer to only the singer-songwriter Sade when we talk about the band. Don’t leave out the other band members! I had a blast taking pix at this show, and I hope you enjoy some of my shots:

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