Best New Bands » Chop Suey http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Punk Rock Show @ Seattle’s Chop Suey http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/punk-rock-show-seattles-chop-suey/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/punk-rock-show-seattles-chop-suey/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0000 Last night Chop Suey hosted a three-way display of underground punk rock, offering a varied presentation of the incarnations in the genre. All of the performing bands were born and bred in Seattle; emerging out of the garage and onto the luminous Chop Suey stage. Opening the night was Aurora Roarers, a thrash outfit that

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  2. Sunday night at Seattle’s Chop Suey: The Rift and Irukandji Last night a dynamic four set line-up rounded up the weekend at Chop Suey in Seattle. The evening’s entertainment provided contributions from hip-hop, rock, funk, blues and jazz; opened by funk-esque punk rock band The Rift. “We are looking for...
  3. Outernational, the Punk Protégés Outernational, the five-piece punk rock band from New York, are currently touring with veteran British punkers GBH. I stumbled upon their Seattle performance of the tour at the Chop Suey without any prior knowledge of Outernational. Suffice to say I...
]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/punk-rock-show-seattles-chop-suey/feed/ 0 Sunday night at Seattle’s Chop Suey: The Rift and Irukandji http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sunday-night-at-chop-suey-the-rift-and-irukandji/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sunday-night-at-chop-suey-the-rift-and-irukandji/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0000 Last night a dynamic four set line-up rounded up the weekend at Chop Suey in Seattle. The evening’s entertainment provided contributions from hip-hop, rock, funk, blues and jazz; opened by funk-esque punk rock band The Rift. “We are looking for collaborations that are odd; untypical… [The Rift] are a live based band, not radio hits,”

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  1. The Horde and the Harem at Seattle’s Chop Suey A free concert was held last Wednesday at Chop Suey in Seattle; sponsored by Relentless and FILTER Magazine. The bustling venue quickly filled and the opening act, five-piece folk indie-rock band The Horde and the Harem, was greeted to a...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/sunday-night-at-chop-suey-the-rift-and-irukandji/feed/ 0 The Horde and the Harem at Seattle’s Chop Suey http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-horde-and-the-harem-at-seattles-chop-suey/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/the-horde-and-the-harem-at-seattles-chop-suey/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:00:00 +0000 A free concert was held last Wednesday at Chop Suey in Seattle; sponsored by Relentless and FILTER Magazine. The bustling venue quickly filled and the opening act, five-piece folk indie-rock band The Horde and the Harem, was greeted to a packed house. The young outfit has thus far produced two EPs and a slew of

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