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 [...]
photos and review by Brian Cullen
I had a pretty killer Friday, October 23, 2009. This is probably news to you but I am once again unemployed! As a result I spent the greater part of my morning drinking coffee, listening to music, trolling ebay (anyone willing to donate an LCD monitor in support of the [...]
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October 25, 2009
photos and review by Benjamin Mobley
It was a dark, stormy Seattle night outside as eager concertgoers waited for Grizzly Bear, an all-male chamber-pop quartet, to take the stage of the Moore Theatre on Friday, October 16th, in support of their latest release, Veckatimest. For a lush and complex album mostly recorded in the intimacy [...]
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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 [...]
By RJ, KEXP | Published:
September 17, 2009
photos by Dan Muller
review by RJ Cubarrubia
I’ll be honest: with all the talk of Anacortes’ The Lonely Forest, I felt like a complete dumbass for never having heard their music (it got really bad when I read in Sound that they were “Seattle’s next great band”). After having the pleasure of introducing them on our [...]
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September 15, 2009
photos by Dan Muller
review by RJ Cubarrubia
Bumbershoot 2009 was a fairly wet and wild affair, but no band could’ve prepared for the weekend weather better than Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head. Sporting a nautical theme complete with a posse of inflatable dolphins, NPSH ripped through an hour-long dance party to an absurd army of kids shouting [...]
review by Travis Baer
photos by Kyle Johnson
This past Friday night The Paramount Theatre was converted from its usual majestic, golden state to a dusty southern bluegrass hall. The Avett Brothers, a folk-rock group from Concord, North Carolina, I feared would be at odds with the regal backdrop provided by the Paramount. Their sound has such [...]
By KEXP | Published:
August 27, 2009
photos by Jim Bennett
Last Friday, while some of us were attending the last of the Concerts at the Murals, others were out at Marymoor Park in Redmond watching the ecstatic spectacle of The Flaming Lips, supported by fellow Oklahomans Stardeath and White Dwarfs. Part New Years, part Christmas, part Mardi Gras, and a whole lot [...]
review and photos by Philip LaRose
Last Monday the 17th, I went to the Crocodile to see Emilíana Torrini. Back in the day I picked up her first (English) album Love in the Time of Science as an impromptu purchase, and I’ve been fond of her since and was curious to hear her live. Opening for [...]
By Chona | Published:
August 21, 2009
photos and review by Chona Kasinger
Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans, the dynamic duo that is YACHT, took center stage promptly at 9:30 to a feverishly excited all ages crowd at the Vera Project on Friday night.
Bechtolt and Evans frolic and caper the stage like the Y2K scare of 1999 all over again, all the while [...]
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