review by Jim Beckmann
photos by Hilary Harris
The past week in Seattle saw two historic and rare performances, both at the WaMu Theater, and both quite different from each other. This past Monday, My Bloody Valentine roared through the expansive venue with all the noise of a jet engine, albeit a sonically complex and layered one, [...]
It may not be a massively long list of new releases gathered up by Largehearted Boy this week, but it’s an undeniably good one. Your days of anxious anticipation are over now that Peter Bjorn and John, PJ Harvey and John Parish, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Gomez are finally in stores. KEXP listeners will also [...]
Posted in KEXP, New York, Out This Week! | Also tagged Aceyalone, Adam Franklin, Gomez, John Parish, Malajube, Peter Bjorn & John, PJ Harvey, Stevie Nicks, The Whitest Boy Alive, Thunderheist, Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
In a sad note that will unfortunately bring you down, former ELO bassist Kelly Groucutt has passed. Groucutt, 63, died of a heart attack in Worcester, England. Groucutt played in ELO from 1974-1983.
It’s not often that the little hamlet of Bloomington, Indiana, makes news beyond IU basketball, but indie fans should know the college [...]
Poet, musician, and all-around badass Leonard Cohen has scheduled his first United States performance in over 15 years for February 19th in world mecca, New York City. What to expect from the brazen kinkster is anyone’s guess but if he isn’t throwing back a few highballs and romancing 17 year old girls, than we suppose [...]
