Say Hi ends tour with an all-ages homecoming
Another cute night of brightly clad, skinny jeans sporting, over-caffeinated and under-sexed teenagers at the Say Hi show at Vera last Friday. I really love…
The Notwist at Neumo's
“Is that a Wii controller he’s playing?” It was and that was the question I overheard repeatedly throughout The Notwist’s set Thursday night during their…
Photo Essay: Fleet Foxes at The Moore Theatre
What can I say that hasn't already been said about the Fleet Foxes. Love them or hate them the band has received a lot of…
The Maldives convince me
The Maldives finally walk on stage, the music builds and pure feeling rolls over me; I swoon under the hazy burden of lap steel. The…
A mid-week orchestral pop night with The Builders and the Butchers, See Me River, and Hey Marseilles at Neumos
I was originally attracted to this show because The Butchers & The Builders are opening for Amanda Palmer's Seattle tour-stop in December, and I'm an…
Quintron and Miss Pussycat's Variety Hour and a Half
This is the 47th live show review I’ve written this year and I’ve easily been to hundreds and hundreds more shows throughout my life. I…
Silver Jews: shining moments onstage
I saw the Silver Jews at the Showbox at the Market last year, completely sold out and packed to the brim. I was completely ecstatic…
REVERB 2008: Hazelwood Motel
Hazelwood Motel conspicuously played their nimble nocturnal ravers and disturbing lullabies to help open the sprawling-on-a-strip-of-Ballard magnificent REVERBfest 2008. The band has enticed new fans…
REVERB 2008: Sage
The word "Sage" can mean wise old man, and that would be appropriate for an alternative band as technically adept as 90s-rock legends Sage, if…
REVERB 2008: Brothers of the Sonic Cloth
Seattle band Brothers of the Sonic Cloth -- the latest project from Tad Doyle of Tad -- sounds priestly, and the astral musical communion it…