Seattle’s La Luz and Codeine’s Chris Brokaw were just two of the acts we photographed during Bumbershoot‘s final day of the 2014 festival. La Luz, who describes itself as surf/doo-woop on its Facebook page, has proven itself as a true breakthrough band of the last couple years. May it continue so strongly. Brokaw played a […]
The appropriate pairing of the Black Keys and Jake Bugg played KeyArena on Day of the Dead, 2014. The Black Keys, a much loved duo from Akron, Ohio, released Turn Blue in 2014 as the follow-up to 2013’s Grammy-Award Winning El Camino. They also won a BRIT Award in 2013. Not bad at all. Brit […]
Cirque du Soleil‘s KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities @ Marymoor Park, 1/29/15 Review by Dagmar KURIOS Entrance – photo by Dagmar Cirque de Soleil‘s KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities opened at Marymoor Park on Thursday evening to an excited, and sold-out audience. The show, which premiered only last year in Montreal, featured acrobats, contortionists, live […]
Twin Shadow had one of the fullest photo pits (and largest outdoor crowds) I saw at Bumbershoot last year. Photographer Simon Krane was there as well, and so Back Beat Seattle had two photographers to capture pictures of the very photogenic Twin Shadow and band (yes!!!). Want more Twin Shadow? He’ll return to Seattle on […]
Artist: Johnny Marr Song: “Dynamo” Why you want to watch: “Dynamo” features Marr in a salmon colored top and what, I think, has become one of his things: silver nails. The song is off his second album, Playland – another of my favorite albums of 2014. Details: Johnny Marr had to cancel several North American […]