Headlining the Sunset Tavern in Ballard this Sunday, with Anni Rossi, and Pomegranates, Headlights, quite possibly one of the most underrated bands of recent times, are back to woo Seattle once again. The Champaign, Illinois, trio have been making consistently solid and genuine indie pop albums since their debut in 2005. Headlining at the Nectar [...]
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review and photos by Carrie Rubens
It is a rare occasion that an opening band ever trumps the excitement for the headliner, but the situation came gravely close one Tuesday night at Neumo’s when Future of the Left played with …And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead.
The evening kicked off with Seattle’s very [...]
Rising out of a city racked with strip malls and commercial real estate are Everett, Washington’s The Moondoggies, an unlikely diamond in the rough found in the suburban landscape. Bandmates Kevin Murphy, Robert Terreberry, Carl Dahlen, and Caleb Quick have been playing together since they were teenagers and now, while barely yet in their mid-twenties, [...]
Like any self-respecting musician these days, Deastro’s Randolph Chabot began recording albums in the basement of his parents’ house. Having sung in his church choir, and even performed in a production of Joeseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat when he was 7-years-old, music has always been a part of his life. From those humble beginnings, he’s [...]
Coming out of Brooklyn, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson creates his own brand of multi-instrumentational, introspective, and very personal songs. With vocals that feel warm and scratchy like wool, Robinson sings about one tulmutuous summer on his second release, The Summer of Fear, out on Saddle Creek. His lyrics denote an even more tumultuous life, dealing with [...]
Rubik finally comes stateside all the way from Finland to celebrate their sophomore release, and United States debut album Dada Bandits. Their songs are beautiful, yet rhythmically off. Artturi Taira’s vocals go against the grain of the rest of the instrumentation. It’s all very refreshing, yet structurally sensitive, like balancing rocks on top of one another, [...]
Tomorrow night at Neumo’s is your chance to relive the madness beset on Seattle by …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead the last time they were in town back in March. If you missed out, on then it’s high time to see them play, because the Austin sextet puts [...]
review by Carrie Rubens
photos by James Bailey
The Chop Suey Sunday night was filled with some amazing sounds and pleasant surprises beginning with Swedish singer/songwriter Anna Ternheim. Often playing with only with an acoustic guitar, Ternheim was backed up tonight by the band from Loney Dear to accompany her melodic folk music.
Co-headlining the show with [...]
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Titus Andronicus‘ lyrics are ridden with anger, hopelessness, and nihilism spawned from growing up in the predominately white, suburban neighborhood of Glen Rock, New Jersey. They have been compared to The Pogues, Bright Eyes, and even Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, but their approach to these “influences” is with such reckless abandon, the angsty vocals set [...]
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