Seattle – I will always love a band that can take us back to the days of high school basement shows while bringing that mature flair of high sound quality. For this reason, but not for this reason alone, I love PAWS. The Scottish trio played Barboza (a venue that’s been just killing it with
Seattle – Those Darlins and Diane Coffee played Seattle’s Barboza. I’m going to assert that Those Darlins were having an off night because I refuse to accept that a band with such promise and clout as performers regularly put up such a tiresome act. I still have faith in Those Darlins. Diane Coffee, on the
Seattle – Following the release of their self-titled debut, Cool Ghouls have spent the year touring up and down the West Coast and making some pretty weighty connections. In 2013 alone Burger Records has welcomed them with open arms and they’ve worked with fellow San Franciscans Fresh and Onlys. On a recent stop in Seattle,
Seattle – Deltron 3030 played Showbox at the Market November 17. Any Deltron 3030 fan has been waiting patiently for the Oakland trio to give us some new music and new shows and they’ve finally delivered. It was well worth the wait. A “lead” (if you will) rapper can easily become the show and overshadow
Seattle – Toro Y Moi played Showbox at the Market to a very dance-happy crowd. When we caught Toro y Moi in Brooklyn this summer, our New York writer, Kelly Knapp, astutely summed up his sound as “A voice like velvet with beats that make you dance hard” and, yes, dance hard is what people
Seattle – The Growlers might not be known for taking things especially seriously. They regularly joke of their constant inebriation and constant bumming. This isn’t a farce or anything, but I’m guessing that these guys take at least one thing seriously and that thing is their music. In 2013 the Costa Mesa, CA band has
Seattle – Earl Sweatshirt (stage name for Thebe Neruda Kgositsile) played Neptune Theater on October 30th. The Neptune is an old, renovated theater with a high stage. It takes a big presence to be able to fill the room and make the hollow theater intimate. The room was dark and crowded, filled with an obvious buzz of
Seattle – New Zealand’s Ghost Wave describes itself as “somewhere between the Flying Nun bands of the 80s, the British explosion of the 1960s and the wayfaring dubs of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry” which is simultaneously very comical and surprisingly accurate (although I would probably throw in a twinge of fellow Oceanians Tame Impala to that mix).
Seattle – MS MR are truly endearing on stage. While it’s been quite some time since the New York duo’s debut full-length album, Secondhand Rapture, was released (it came out in May) and the band has played countless sold out shows, they emit modesty and brazen appreciation for the support (totally deserved) that crowds across
Seattle – It was hard to resist the catchy beauty of The Head and The Heart’s first album back in 2011. It might not have been the best-written collection of songs or the most groundbreaking but, really, it was a challenge to listen to “Down in the Valley” just once so the simplicity of the