Photographer Graham Lee was at Arizona rockers blessthefall‘s show on October 25th. The quintet were in Seattle for a date with Atreyu, and fans will be happy to hear they are working on a new album for 2011. I’m still especially enjoying the song “You Deserve Nothing And I Hope You Get Less”. Thanks Graham for the foxy shots!
blessthefall
Sister cities – Reykjavik and Seattle – came together at the Croc on Friday for an evening of music. Nathan Wade, Petur Ben, Jason Dodson, Lay Low, Rachael Flotard, Rusty Willoughby, Sindri Mar Sigfusson, John John Roderick and Mugison played four sets with everyone back on stage for the encore.
The Crocodile had the Henry Clay People as headliners on October 25th. The Los Angeles band’s MySpace profile announced their first national headlining tour – congratulations to the Henry Clay People for now completing this first tour. Alex Crick has brought back some mighty fine photos of the band from their Seattle date:
the Henry Clay People
Back in May of this year I saw Two Door Cinema Club play a show at Nectar in Fremont. I write that and it sounds so usual, yet I assure you there was nothing usual about it. The Northern Irish band blew my music mind. They got on that stage and proceeded to play a glamorous, feisty, perfectly tasty set of pop rock. I will admit that I am wired to give a Celtic nations band more of a chance than anything, but this band needed no additional lures to get me into their music. Go check them out tonight, Saturday, November 6th at Neumos – and buy their wonderful debut CD, Tourist History – you’d need to be made of stone not to like these guys.
Two Door Cinema Club
Also definitely worth catching is openers, Los Angeles’ Funeral Party, whose roaring opening performance for New Politics I caught at El Corazon. A larger stage such as Neumos’ will let this young band, and the young Two Door Cinema Club, fly. Get there early, get there early.
Funeral Party – photo by Dagmar
Get tix here – show is all ages.
Gorillaz brought their Escape to Plastic Beach World to the KeyArena on Tuesday night. The British band, led by former Blur singer Damon Albarn, now heads to the UK before moving on to the European leg of the tour. Plastic Beach, their third CD, is out now and appropriately taking over world music charts. Gorillaz also brought N*E*R*D, back from a small music breather, along for the trip. Enjoy some extra fine photos from Alex Crick:
Gorillaz
N*E*R*D – all photos by Alex Crick