Photos: Laufey @ Barboza

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Singer-songwriter Laufey performed a sold out show at Barboza, in support of her recent debut album, Everything I Know About Love.  There was a lot of interaction between the Icelandic artist and the audience … Laufey stopped the middle of her set to sign someone’s forehead, roses were held high in the air during the song Valentine, she commented about the knit top she was wearing (given to her during the meet & greet), and the fans sang along on every song.  English artist Matilda Mann opened.

Laufey – photos by Kirk Stauffer

Matilda Mann – photos by Kirk Stauffer

Photos: Trentemøller & TOM and His Computer @ the Showbox

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Trentemøller & TOM and His Computer @ the Showbox – 9/16/22
Photos by Casey Brevig

Trentemøller – photo by Casey Brevig

Danish artist Trentemøller dropped by the Showbox on September 16th, and kicked off the North American leg of his Memoria tour. The electronic musician released album seven, also called Memoria, in February, and for this tour, he shared the stage with four additional impressive musicians: Jacob Haubjerg, DíSA, Silas Tinglef and Brian Batz. Trentemøller has his own label, In My Room, and so he was able to bring label mate, TOM and His Computer with him. How awesome! For more music, check out the lovely song “Into The Silence,” featuring DíSA over here.

Trentemøller – photos by Casey Brevig

TOM and His Computer – photos by Casey Brevig

Album Review: Sabaton’s The War to End All Wars

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Album Review: Sabaton‘s The War to End All Wars
~Dagmar

Sabaton‘s The War to End All Wars

Sabaton, the super Swedish heavy metal quintet recently released their 20th album, The War to End All Wars. A kind of companion to their 2019 album, The Great War, the new work draws on similar bloodshed. While WWI was termed the war to end war, Sabaton takes a bigger historical chomp by calling this The War to End All Wars. Beginning with some historical background on what got it all started, Sabaton draws you in with the voice of Bethan Dixon Bate (not the singer, Joakim Brodén, mind you, who sounds way tough) giving you the details: Archduke Franz Ferdinand gets assassinated in 1914. The album continues to tell the stories of other historical figures, with symphonic hugeness and the metal tempo changes Sabaton really excels at. Sabaton does a great job with perspective as well in the badass “Soldier of Heaven.” There’s also a strong track called “Lady of the Dark” about the Serbian war heroine Milunka Savić, someone you just might not know about. My favorites? The blazing “Dreadnought,” “Soldier of Heaven,” and a song that sounds like a christmassy metal track, “Christmas Truce.” Now Christmas has arrived and the snow/turns the ground white/Hear carols from the trenches, we sing O holy night/Our guns laid to rest among snowflakes/A Christmas in the trenches, a Christmas on the front far from home. Rather heartbreaking.

WWI changed the face of war with all the gases introduced to warfare. And there was lots of mud. Lots of horrific injuries. As a side note if you’re into this time period, I recommend the excellent book The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War by Lindsey Fitzharris.

Photos: Dirty Honey w/ Dorothy & Mac Saturn @ the Neptune

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Dirty Honey w/ Dorothy & Mac Saturn @ the Neptune – 9/8/22
Photos by Alex Crick

Marc LaBelle of Dirty Honey – photo by Alex Crick

Rock band Dirty Honey came to Seattle’s University District earlier in September. Headlining the Neptune, the quartet made up some lost time from the pandemic, and brought fellow Los Angelenos Dorothy – plus Detroit’s Mac Saturn as openers. The tour, titled California Dreamin‘, got its name from the Dirty Honey track “California Dreamin’,” (that song’s a definite fan favorite). Look for the excellent rockers to play several more dates before they can get closer to home with an October 9th date in Sacramento, CA. And PS: that is one smashing poncho singer Marc LaBelle has on in these photos.

Dirty Honey – photos by Alex Crick

Dorothy – photos by Alex Crick

Mac Saturn – photos by Alex Crick

Photos: Mimi Webb @ Neumos

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British singer-songwriter Mimi Webb headlined at Neumos, on the second night of her North American tour.  Backed by drums and keys, Webb performed songs from her Seven Shades of Heartbreak EP plus an Adele cover on par with the original.  Pop singer Dylan Conrique opened.

Mimi Webb – photos by Kirk Stauffer

Dylan Conrique – photos by Kirk Stauffer