Maybe the Seattle music scene’s huge talent pool could yield a new bassist or keyboardist for Smashing Pumpkins. Is somebody up for this?
The group sent out this statement today:
“With the news that the Smashing Pumpkins bassist Ginger Pooley has left the band to raise her new baby with her husband, Billy Corgan has announced that [...]
Continue reading “Job alert: Smashing Pumpkins looking for new bassist and keyboardist” »
A Sammamish band made some waves at the Sound Off! finals Saturday (March 6) at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum.
The annual battle-of-the-bands competition, whose past winners include Schoolyard Heroes, The Lonely H, Idiot Pilot, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head and others, awarded Great Waves of Sammamish the top prize in the four-band showdown [...]
Continue reading “Sammamish band wins 2010 Sound Off! finals at EMP/SFM” »
One of four young Northwest bands — Candysound (Bellingham and Burlington), Great Waves (Sammamish), Hooves and Beak (Seattle) and SEACATS (Kelso) — will become the first-place winner of the 2010 Sound Off! competition Saturday (March 6) at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum.
Prizes will also be awarded the second- and third-place winners.
The 2010 [...]
Continue reading “Four Northwest bands compete at Sound Off! finals Saturday at EMP/SFM” »
Just days before he arrives in Seattle for shows Friday and Saturday (March 5-6) at Showbox SoDo, rapper Snoop Dogg has been cleared by a London court in his long-running immigration fight with the British government.
The rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, is now free to visit Britain after a three-year ban, according to [...]
Continue reading “Cleared in Britain, rapper Snoop Dogg is ready to play Seattle” »
What began in 2008 as a communal neo-hippie party has grown into an impressive annual music event on Orcas Island.
The Doe Bay Fest Aug. 13-14 at Doe Bay Resort and Retreat on the southeastern corner of Orcas has announced a first-rate lineup for 2010: Fruit Bats, Grand Hallway, THEESatisfaction, Portland Cello Project, Drew Grow & [...]
Continue reading “Quirky, communal Doe Bay Fest announces its 2010 band lineup” »
An all-star cast of Seattle-based musicians are teaming up for “A Hootenanny for Haiti” Sunday at the Showbox at the Market.
The stellar group includes Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses, Loaded), Star Anna, Gary Westlake, Jeff Rouse, Kim Virant, Mark Pickerel, Kim Warnick, Ty Bailie and others.
Audience participation is encouraged at [...]
Continue reading “‘A Hootenanny for Haiti’ is a happening” »
By MIKEL TOOMBS
“Is Tinariwen the greatest band on earth?”
The online magazine Slate posed that question a couple years back, and the latest release by the band from the southern Sahara Desert (Tinariwen means “deserts” or “empty spaces” in the Tamashek language) adds more evidence for the affirmative [...]
Continue reading “The sounds of the southern Sahara drift through The Triple Door” »
Some bands merely grow old, others grow up.
Today’s Bon Jovi, among the premier pop-metal bands of the 1980s, has a depth that wasn’t apparent in its younger days. Once defined by the album “Slippery When Wet,” Bon Jovi is now more socially adept. Or at least more socially conscious.
Among the new songs from the band’s [...]
Continue reading “CONCERT REVIEW: Bon Jovi’s explosive tour kickoff at KeyArena in Seattle” »
The circle is still unbroken for Bon Jovi, the pop-metal band that made its debut in 1984 with the hit single “Runaway.”
Twenty-six years later, Bon Jovi is back on tour with its latest album, “The Circle,” a collection of arena-rock anthems that carry on the traditions of this solidly mainstream American band.
Over the last three [...]
Continue reading “Bon Jovi brings “The Circle” to Seattle” »
In the 1970s, Casablanca Records became the symbol of music-industry excess.
Founded by the magnetic Neil Bogart (with co-founder and cousin Larry Harris), Casablanca introduced such over-the-top superstars as the fire-breathing KISS and the dance-inducing Donna Summer and the Village People. Fueling the madness of Casablanca’s heyday were loads of money, cocaine, weed, booze, sex and [...]
Continue reading “BOOK REVIEW: ‘And Party Every Day: Inside Story of Casablanca Records’” »
Note: This is the end of the usable page. The image(s) below are preloaded for performance only.
