I’m going to be completely candid here – I am very far from being an expert, or even somewhat knowledgeable about hip-hop and rap. We all have to choose our battles and up until recently, dedicating hours of blog searching time to hip-hop is not something I’ve fought productivity with. Any apparent lack of knowledge,
Walking into The Crocodile, it was hard to believe that just a week ago at the same venue I was there, in the heart of the hip-hop scene, seeing Nacho Picasso and Cam’ron. To say that a different crowd filled the venue to see LA-based (but Oregon raised) ZZ Ward would be doing an injustice
The Redwood Plan has just as anxiously been awaiting the release of its new album, Green Light Go, as its fans. Green Light Go was released on Seattle’s Fish The Cat Records on February 15, almost two years after the band first started thinking about a new album. Green Light Go, the band’s sophomore full-length,
In a crowd where “set change” is synonymous for almost all with “smoke break,” a rare moment of hollow space allowed me to see and appreciate the space I was in: a low ceiling using burlap coffee sacs as its acoustical installation, a stage backdrop of unintentionally floral curtains and a cement floor soon to
Change requires adaptation. It requires time. When you start a new job no one expects you to know exactly what you’re doing immediately – that’d be a bit unfair. Maybe it’s a bit unfair, then, for us to assume that when a band makes some changes that it should be an automatic success. Let’s not
The Barboza in Seattle’s Capitol Hill is less than a year old and sits in the basement of the better-known Neumos. It strives to bring more local acts to the stage — a mission that brought Seven Colors, Shenandoah Davis and Tomten together there on January 29th. For such a variety of sound on one
Anacortes, Wash. band BellaMaine released its new EP An Anxious Mind on January 15th and I imagine the band must be pretty jazzed about the attention it’s been getting. University of Washington radio station KEXP has since dubbed the band one of the top local acts to watch in 2013 and the Puget Sound’s City