By MIKEL TOOMBS How cold was it Friday night in Seattle? It was so cold that X guitarist Billy Zoom (he was the one with…
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With surprise guests The Presidents of the United States of America, as well as such previously announced bands as Broken Bells, The Black Keys, Jimmy…
Read Full ArticleNew York City trio The Narrative benefits from a ‘feminine presence’
By MIKEL TOOMBS The Narrative adds a different storyline to the emo sound with the decidedly feminine presence of singer-keyboardist Suzie Zeldin (isn’t there a…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT REVIEW: Sold-out Wild Flag show makes a splash at High Dive
By MIKEL TOOMBS If you’d flagged the Friday night (Nov. 12) show at the High Dive as merely a two-thirds Sleater-Kinney reunion, you were wildly…
Read Full ArticleSeattle meets Iceland in free Seattle City of Music Festival concert
Sister cities Seattle and Reykjavik, Iceland, are coming together for a unique showcase of live music at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, at the Crocodile…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT PREVIEW: Auburn’s He Is We has a Taylor Swiftian ingenuousness
By MIKEL TOOMBS “Is this more than a crush?” He Is We singer Rachel Taylor asks on “Blame It on the Rain,” one (actually two)…
Read Full ArticleRising Texas singer-songwriter Sahara Smith has a really haunting sound
By MIKEL TOOMBS When Sahara Smith was introduced to me as a “222-year-old rising Texan artist,” I knew I had to check her out. Pretty…
Read Full ArticleSoul Asylum headlines Lounge Acts 2010, a Kurt Cobain benefit concert
Grammy winners Soul Asylum and Seattle band Sweet Water headline Lounge Acts 2010, a fourth annual Kurt Cobain Memorial Foundation benefit concert Nov. 13 at…
Read Full ArticleExperience Music Project will open world’s biggest Nirvana exhibit
Next April, the Experience Music Project will launch what promises to be the most extensive exhibit on Nirvana, the Northwest punk/grunge band that exploded out…
Read Full ArticleImages from the Austin City Limits Festival at Austin’s Zilker Park
The 2010 Austin City Limits Festival, blessed by spectacular weather and a deluge of musical acts, wrapped up Sunday (Oct. 10) at Zilker Park in…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT PREVIEW: Corin Tucker Band debuts music for ‘1,000 Years’
By MIKEL TOOMBS Punk rocker mom Corin Tucker is the first member of the Sleater-Kinney threesome, Northwest riotgrrrl icons and once the best band in…
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…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT REVIEW: Smashing Pumpkins brings its ‘Kaleidyscope’ to SoDo
Billy Corgan was absolutely smashing in his sold-out Showbox Sodo performance Friday night (Sept. 10). Leading his latest incarnation of the Smashing Pumpkins — guitarist…
Read Full ArticleWanna be a rock star? It’s time to sign up for EMP’s 2011 Sound Off! contest
The Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum is accepting applications for its 2011 Sound Off! competition, now in its 10th year. The competition for…
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