The Black Dahila Murder, Dying Fetus, Spite, and Vomit Forth at the Neptune Theater

The Neptune Theater played host this week to the Black Dahlia Murder, Dying Fetus, Spite, and Vomit Forth for a night of loud and satisfying death metal. The action in the pit was energetic, the audience was sweaty, aggressive, and very enthusiastic. The Black Dahlia Murder Dying Fetus The audience was amped during each of […]

Hoodoo Gurus at the Neptune Theatre

Sidney Australia’s Hoodoo Gurus came full circle by playing their debut album start to finish 42 years after its release during what will likely be the band’s last visit to Seattle Monday night at the Neptune Theatre. Dave Faulkner, Brad Sheperd, Richard Grossman, and Nik Rieth treated an amped audience to the entirety of ‘Stoneage […]

Mudhoney, Zeke, Hickoids, Redneck Girlfriend, and 38 Coffin at Slim’s Last Chance

Mudhoney joined an already packed lineup of 38 Coffin, Redneck Girlfriend, Hickoids, and Zeke for a late July benefit for Derelicts singer Duane Ash Shoal at Slim’s Last Chance. The show would have very likely sold out on the strength of the original bill but did so in a flash when Mudhoney was added a […]

Toody Cole/Dead Moon, Acid Tongue, and Is This Real? at the Tractor Tavern

Toody Cole, of Dead Moon and Pierced Arrows, played a past meets present meets future bill at the Tractor Tavern last weekend with Acid Tongue and Matt Cameron’s Is This Real? Dead Moon, which was composed of Toody, her husband Fred Cole, and Andrew Loomis (now both deceased), has a secure place in the hearts […]

Tinariwen @ the Showbox

Tinariwen @ the Showbox – 8/9/24Photos & Words by Mike Mitchell Nomadic Toureg legends Tinerawin took a sold out Showbox audience on a trip to the Sahara last Friday night. The African sextet wove a tapestry of intricate guitar interplay, call and response vocals, and percussion that was at once trance-like and propulsive. My western […]