Drive By Truckers and Deer Tick delivered a show to delight the most ardent and discriminating of guitar devotees Friday night at Marymoor Park in Redmond. While the bands vary significantly in terms of tone and content, they both worship at the altar of The Big Guitar & Roaring Amp and cater to a crowd […]
The Melvins and Napalm Death brought their most recent traveling metal extravaganza to a sold out Showbox last week for a cathartic night of loud and aggressive rock & roll. Australia’s Hard On’s opened the show with a well-received set of snappy punk/metal. The tour was billed as a co-headlining affair with Napalm Death taking […]
Filmmaker Jordan Albertson presented his new documentary ‘Boom: A Film About the Sonics’ at Seattle’s MOPOP in early September with a screening, a Q&A session, and a concert featuring the Sonics and Girl Trouble. The Sonics are a crucial link in the Pacific Northwest R&R chain and their impact and influence reverberates to this day. […]
Dave Alvin @ The Tractor Tavern – 7/13/24Review & Photos by Mike Mitchell I was a little surprised and a lot delighted when blues rocker Dave Alvin teamed up with country folk icon Jimme Dale Gilmore for their combined 2018 release Downey to Lubbock. Although the two artists approach their craft from slightly different starting […]