Crystal Bowersox, runner-up of “American Idol” season 9 in 2010, recently played a set at the base of the Space Needle in the Seattle Center during the Seattle Pridefest. She showcased her debut album, Farmer’s Daughter, which was released last December.
Ah, Alex Crick, thank you for capturing these photos of Two Gallants, The Mumlers and Broken Nobles as they played at Neumos last Monday evening. Here’s the skinny on what these bands are up to next: Two Gallants continue touring and blowing minds, The Mumlers look like they’ll be taking a tour break after a couple July dates, and Seattle’s Broken Nobles are playing the Comet on July 16th. Until next time, photos!:
Two Gallants
Broken Nobles
Two Gallants
The Mumlers
The Crocodile hosted a wildly-fun Saturday night of garage rock on June 18th, featuring two local practitioners of the art, The Intelligence and TacocaT, along with Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds, best-known as a former member of psychobillly punk legends The Cramps and co-founder of The Gun Club.
TacocaT opened the show with an energizing set of nicely aggressive ‘60s-style pop-punk. A happy, familiar banter went on between the band and the hometown crowd, and TacocaT’s tight, melodic songs easily held the audience. They are fun, funny, good-looking, and definitely a good time – a wonderful antidote to a scene that sometimes takes itself a little too seriously at times. They’d fit in perfectly playing at a blowout backyard BBQ, but have an “it” factor there that could and should take them to bigger prominence.
Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds
The Intelligence
TacocaT
The 19th Annual Greenwood Car Show was held on Saturday, June 25th in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle. Classic cars, muscle cars, old City of Seattle buses, police cars and (gasp) a tow truck were all on display. Children were arrested and some drove a fire truck (okay not really). The talented Kirsten Buckman ventured out and snapped some shots of the automobiles:
I’ve seen Sondre Lerche numerous times (at Bumbershoot, the Crocodile, the Paramount), and each show has been fabulous. Lerche has such a captivating way about him and is just as interesting a talker as he is a musician – and trust me, all his songs are great. People might overuse the word charming, but Lerche is its epitome. The Norwegian artist is 7 albums deep into his career with the release of Sondre Lerche, just out now, and he appeared at Seattle’s Crocodile on June 25th. My favorite moment of the night was his charged and passionate performance of “My Hands Are Shaking,” from his soundtrack for Dan in Real Life. He also dug deep in a grand way for an excellent display of 2002’s Faces Down song “Sleep on Needles.” What a thrill the show was.
