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The first day of the festival for us was one where we were running a little late and trying to make the rush to catch the main stage openers, Fleet Foxes, before their set was over. We made it with a few minutes to spare, but I will include those photos with the ones below [...]

MP3: No Age - “Eraser” from Nouns
The chaotically melodic duo of No Age brought their brand of indie rock influenced punk rock to the stage of the Great American Music Hall the other night, just a couple months after opening at the same venue for Battles. What some might expect from the group due to [...]

MP3: The Long Winters - Pushover from Putting The Days To Bed.
Seattle’s, The Long Winters, brought the 70’s back Thursday night at the Independent. Running out, over enthused to put on a great show, lead singer, John Roderick, took a dive over his amp and into the drum kit after explaining he’s going through [...]

MP3: Wolf Parade - Language City (At Mount Zoomer)
Wolf Parade played last night to a sold out crowd at the Fillmore, still promoting their album At Mount Zoomer. Opening for them, in Wolf Parade fashion, were their friends and fellow band mates from the side project Johnny And The Moon, Listening Party.

MP3: Listening [...]

MP3: Port O’Brien - Stuck On A Boat (Live @ The Triple Door, Seattle, WA)
Port O’Brien ended their tour this week with a final show at Cafe du Nord on July 11th. To a sold out crowd, they endured through Van being sick and with a lot of audience participation persevered. Always being a fan [...]

Mp3: Totimoshi - Ladron
12 Galaxies was the host to three incredible bands on July 8th, Big Business, Triclops! and Totimoshi, who were celebrating the release of the album Milagrosa. Totimoshi’s sound leans heavily on dense yet concise riffs, leaving room for drummer Chris Fuggit to relentlessly pound his drums without stepping on the arrangement. [...]

Mp3: Tilly And The Wall - Pot Kettle Black
Tuesday night is the new Saturday night, well, at least it was when Tilly And The Wall played at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. The place was packed, fans were eagerly cheering and singing along. Oh, not too mentioned that balloons and confetti were everywhere. [...]

Mp3: Jesse Sykes - LLL
Jesse Sykes opened the second night of hers and Earth’s encore show at the Tractor Tavern on July 29th, which was also the final night of the tour. A slightly more tense than usual Jesse took the stage with her band and played a great mix of old and new songs [...]

Ours are touring behind the new album, Mercy (Dancing For The Death Of An Imaginery Enemy) which was produced by Rick Rubin. The last two dates of the tour were also the first two dates, which were canceled. The band hasn’t said anything why the 2 dates were canceled, but lead singer, Jimmy Gnecco (the [...]

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks played an in-store performance at Haight/Ashbury’s Amoeba Records in support of their latest album Real Emotional Trash. The crowd was primed and ready as we all waited, filling up half of the entire store’s rows of LPs, for the Jicks to take the stage. The band took the stage after [...]

This was going to be my first time seeing Stars and the anticipation was wearing me out. Seriously, all day at work all I could think about were all the Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell duets I was going to hear that night. It’s pretty safe to say that I wasn’t going to be disappointed. [...]

On the evening of September 17th, we had the pleasure of meeting up with the Handsome Furs duo before their show at the Rickshaw Stop. On tour with with fellow Wolf Parade band member, Dante, playing as Johnny And The Moon, the bands rolled in a little late to their soundcheck. Listening to both acts [...]

There it was in the darkened Thursday night shining brightly with all its yellow glory. The Great American was proclaiming to the city of San Francisco it’s ownership of Battles for that night. I could almost hear the sinister laugh of evil delight coming from the ticket booth…muahahahahaaa ala Vincent Price. (That one’s for you [...]

The strapping young lad that is Elvis Perkins and backing band “Dearland” struck up the Neumos stage, in Seattle, last Sunday night, acting as opener to Brooklyn’s darling, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Perkins’s voice alone reeks of the unspoken tragedies of his life, though always honing a latent happiness and simplicity that amalgamates into [...]

To continue with some of the Bumbershoot coverage, we are going to be posting a few of the live KEXP “Secret Show” Music Lounge events that went on that weekend. The first show for Bumbershoot was St. Vincent and why not start there!

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The very beautiful and talented Regina Spektor archetype (on guitar), Marissa Nadler, graced the Showbox stage early last night, willed with the duty of opening for Swedish superstars Pater Bjorn and John. Her gently lilting guitar arpeggios and graceful voice floated warmly over the cold early fall air rushing in through the double doors of [...]

The affable San Francisco two piece headlined the Crocodile Wednesday (9/19) night, and were welcomed to the stage by throngs of eager fans- eclectic, yet excited all the same. Seattle, being one of the hodgepodge music epicenters of the US will definitely make for this kind of an audience at a concert.

Openers Blitzen Trapper and [...]

Friday September 14th, on Bodies of Water’s latest tour with Karl Blau they were supposed to have a stop in Santa Cruz, CA, but due to an unexpected cancellation they had to try and find a quick alternative. In comes a Santa Cruz local named Stanley who coerced his mother into letting the band play [...]

On August 28th, Santa Cruz’s The Crepe Place put on the show with the help of Folk Yeah!. The turn out was not that great for the amount of talent the bands brought, I think maybe 30 people at the most showed up by the end of the evening although some apparently drove down [...]

The first two days of Bumbershoot left us pretty worn out although the lineup of artists to play that day kept us going.

Andrew Bird started off the day for us at the KEXP Music Lounge. He played an absolutely amazing solo set as opposed to his full band set the night before. Both shows were [...]