As evidenced by this week’s blistering heat, summer is fast upon us. If you’re looking for other places to sweat beside your house, car, or workplace, how bouts doing it a rock show for charity? You even have a choice in charities this week! Double karma points!
All this week KEXP has been hard at [...]
Last week I explained in this space that I wasn’t going to the Sasquatch festival this year because I opted to cover the Seattle International Film Festival again this year and this is the first week. I went to the Opening Night Gala last night and had a blast, even if the crowds were more [...]
About a month ago I decided that I was not going to go to the Gorge for the annual Sasquatch Festival that will take place next weekend. While there is a large handful of artists on the lineup that I would really love to see (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Erykah Badu, Santigold, Crystal Castles, of Montreal, [...]
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Last summer, arguably the biggest event in local music was SP20, the anniversary party for Sub Pop’s twenty years of going out of business. Lately, it seems like SP21 is continuing because a lot of (nonlocal) acts from the label have been coming through town with some great regularity, although I’ll never be accused of [...]
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This past week was an exhausting week that I still haven’t fully processed. I had seen one of my favorite new pop stars, Ida Maria, play at the Crocodile and the very next night saw the absolutely incredible My Bloody Valentine, which probably made for the best two consecutive nights of shows I’ve ever been [...]
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While looking at the show calendar for this week, am I really seeing that My Bloody Valentine (!) and Asobi Seksu are playing shows on consecutive nights (MBV Monday at WaMu Theater and Asobi Seksu at Neumo’s on Tuesday)? With two of the loudest bands I can think of playing back to back nights, I [...]
This is the weekend that thousands and thousands of music fans descend upon Indio, CA, for the annual Coachella festival. The lineup is especially impressive, landing appearances by Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen, Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, Crystal Castles and Girl Talk — and that’s just Friday.
Even given the choice of going to Southern California for Coachella [...]
Well, I’m back in Seattle after an exhilarating and exhausting week. I had taken a much-needed vacation and gotten back just in time to go TIG’s incredible Top of the Croc show (which I recommended here). With the weather just now starting to improve, it looks like it would be the right time to relax [...]
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I’m writing this post from (not-snowy) Southern California, so a good portion of the week I’ve been bombarded with ads for movies. I always love the sheer hyperbole that goes into commercials, often repeating some hack critic’s lines that were designed to appear in advertising. “If you only see one movie this year, make sure [...]
I am unusually excited for this week, not just because it’ll be the first time I’ll have seen USE in probably about a year and a half but shortly after that I’ll be taking my first actual vacation in well over two years. So, with any luck, next week’s column will be filed, as Eddie [...]
