By GENE STOUT Redheads love Sammy Hager, even if they’re bald, blond, brunette or silvery gray. Like Jimmy Buffett’s Parrotheads, Hagar’s fans (dubbed Redheads) are…
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Seattle’s 2011 Bumbershoot festival opened Saturday, Sept. 3, with dozens of musical performances on more than a half dozen stages (and a lot of sidewalks…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT PREVIEW: My Morning Jacket takes a circuitous route to hard rock
By MIKEL TOOMBS The new My Morning Jacket album, “Circuital” (ATO Records), which made its debut at No. 5 on the Billboard Albums chart, starts…
Read Full ArticleAll-female AC/DC tribute band Hell’s Belles debuts new singer
If you like your tribute bands hot and sassy, Seattle all-female AC/DC tribute group Hell’s Belles is a pocketful of dynamite. New singer Amber Saxon,…
Read Full ArticleMOVIE PREVIEW: At 65, iconoclastic rocker Lemmy is anything but retiring
By MIKEL TOOMBS Will it play in Peoria? The question dates back to the show business of the 1920s: “If an act did well in…
Read Full ArticlePHOTO GALLERY: Roger Waters performs ‘The Wall’ at Tacoma Dome
Roger Waters brought his spectacular, pyrotechnics-infused production of “The Wall” to the Tacoma Dome Saturday night, Dec. 11, to the delight of thousands of longtime…
Read Full ArticleSeattle’s Alice in Chains plans to shoot KeyArena show in 3D
Multi-platinum rock band Alice in Chains has announced that this Friday’s, Oct. 9, hometown show at Seattle’s Key Arena will be filmed in 3D for…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT REVIEW: X Japan makes its thunderous Seattle concert debut
Amid a blitzkrieg of sound, lights, fog and pyrotechnics, X Japan, the biggest rock band in the Land of the Rising Sun, made its Seattle…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT PREVIEW: X Japan brings drama back to rock on debut U.S. tour
X Japan may be Japan’s biggest rock band, playing arenas and stadiums throughout Asia for many years. But the group has long dreamed of touring…
Read Full ArticlePHOTO GALLERY: The Scorpions bid fans adieu at Clark County Amphitheater
As part of its “Get Your Sting and Blackout” farewell tour, powerhouse German rock band The Scorpions performed Saturday (Aug. 7) at the Sleep Country…
Read Full ArticlePHOTO GALLERY: Veteran bad boy Billy Idol rocks the Tulalip Amphitheatre
Here are a few cool pics by “Iron” Mike Savoia of a concert by Billy Idol and his band, who played a sold-out show Aug.…
Read Full ArticleL.A. metal band Tool brings a musical apocalypse to Seattle’s KeyArena
Tool, the progressive heavy-metal band led by Maynard James Keenan, rocked KeyArena Saturday night (July 10) with “Jambi,” “Vicarious,” “Intolerance” and other epic, head-banging songs…
Read Full ArticlePHOTO GALLERY: Iron Maiden, Dream Theater beat the devil at White River
Seattle rock photographer “Iron Mike” Savoia shot these photos of last week’s (June 22) explosive concert by Iron Maiden and Dream Theater at White River…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT REVIEW: Magic Carpet Ride rocks Seattle’s Hard Rock Cafe
The Hard Rock Cafe lived up to its name Friday (April 30) with a hard-rocking lineup of local bands led by The Magic Carpet Ride,…
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