By GENE STOUT With seven award nominations for Seattle rap duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, tonight’s 56th annual Grammy Awards could be a year of…
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By GENE STOUT Most of us drive what we drive. There are plenty of modern-day transportation modules to get us from point A to point…
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Playing the final set of the night as a “wild card” band, Seattle baroque pop group Tomten won the tenth annual Sound Off! competition for…
Read Full ArticleSeattle City of Music Awards: it’s time to hand out a few trophies
Brandi Carlile, Clarence Acox, Scott Brown and Gerard Schwarz will be honored at the second annual City of Music Awards Oct. 6 at Showbox at…
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One of the most-anticipated rock shows of the spring — the double bill of Muse and Silversun Pickups — rolls into KeyArena at 7 tonight…
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AUSTIN, Texas — Despite near-freezing temperatures that made fingers numb, hordes of music fans descended on Austin’s downtown streets and nightclubs for the final day…
Read Full ArticleSammamish band wins 2010 Sound Off! finals at EMP/SFM
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…
Read Full ArticleFour Northwest bands compete at Sound Off! finals Saturday 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…
Read Full ArticleSpectacle almost outweighed music at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards
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Read Full ArticleBeyonce, Taylor Swift dominate Grammy Awards telecast
With huge wins by Beyonce and Taylor Swift, it was definitely ladies night at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards. Beyonce made Grammy history by walking…
Read Full ArticleTaylor Swift is the artist to beat on Grammy Awards telecast
In just a few hours, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will announce the winners of the 52nd annual Grammy Awards during a…
Read Full ArticleBattle of the Tech Bands: Boston vs. Seattle (in Boston)
If you’re planning to be in Boston in early February, mark you calendar for Xconomy’s Battle of the Tech Bands 3: Seattle vs. Boston. For…
Read Full ArticleLocal bands can Sound Off! this winter at EMP/SFM
Sound Off! 2010, the Northwest’s biggest underage battle of the bands, begins Feb. 13 at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum. The Sound…
Read Full ArticleThree of Seattle’s top bands among Grammy nominees
Three of Seattle’s top rock bands — Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Death Cab for Cutie — are among the nominees for the 52nd…
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