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
A grand congregation featuring over 50 shows of the nations most acclaimed and promising jazz musicians will form in Seattle on October 15 and conclude 23 days later on November 7. The annual Earshot Jazz festival, established in 1984, has become one of the largest jazz festivals on the West Coast. Canvassing an entourage of
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,”
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
The 2010 Decibel festival concluded last night with an explosive finale at Neumos in Seattle. The festival ran on for five days, from the Opening Gala at Pravada Studios on Wednesday, to the final echoing footstep departing late night from Neumos. After seeing exponential growth since its 2003 inception; the festival this year provided over
Listening to Beats Antique is like immersing oneself into a musical melting pot of cultures. Combining Middle Eastern styles and other world music with dubstep, electronica, and roots music, Beats Antique sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard before (Check out Daniel Burnett‘s review of their performance at Seattle’s Decibel Festival here). The trio of isn’t
Lying in the nexus of Capitol Hill’s most vibrant area is Neumos, a diverse club that hosts bands of both renown and obscurity. The Seattle club, Moe’s Mo Roc’n Café, was formed in 1992 and enjoyed eleven prosperous years until 2003 when it was re-launched as Neumos (get it ‘New Moes’). Since then it has
Picture courtesy of Trevor James Tupper A few years ago Garrett Hobba rediscovered a passion that had been stifled and suppressed in the banality of competition. The play of music rejoined him upon his arrival in Seattle, urging him to form a band and leading to the inception of The Soft Hills. “I found the
If the last three decades of musical innovation have taught us anything it’s that the idea of ‘common timbre’ is fast diminishing. In 2007 a trio of young entrepreneurs took the process of synthesizing sound to a new level. Their original approach to techno/electro beats lit up the eyes of many in Seattle and they,
Seven years ago music enthusiast Sean Horton founded the Decibel Festival in Seattle, bringing to life an exhibition of his passion. The identity of the festival was the electronic music scene and the effect of it, in a city that predominantly revolves around hip-hop and rock, was outstanding. Over the course of its early years