By GENE STOUT Seattle DJ Marco Collins, who was the subject of the SIFF film “The Glamour and the Squalor,” is putting his energy and…
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By GENE STOUT Exciting news for fans of classic Northwest rock: legendary band The Sonics will release its first new studio album since 1967 on…
Read Full ArticleElvis Invitationals competition celebrates 20 years of ‘Burning Love’
By GENE STOUT The Seattle (Elvis) Invitationals contest returns Jan. 23 to the club where it all began 20 years ago — The Crocodile. The…
Read Full ArticleActor Vincent D’Onofrio records eccentric ‘punk spoken word’ album
By MIKEL TOOMBS As William Shakespeare, were he alive today (he’d be 450), might have tweeted, “Though this be Method (acting), yet there be madness…
Read Full ArticleAll-star band gathers at Bumbershoot to perform Big Star’s iconic third album
By MIKEL TOOMBS “Never traveled far,” Replacements singer-guitarist Paul Westerberg sang in the set-closer “Alex Chilton” Sunday at Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, “without a little Big…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT PREVIEW: You’ll have to wait a year for that 5 Seconds of Summer
By MIKEL TOOMBS With its July 24 (that’s 2015, folks) show at KeyArena, the adorable Australian boy band 5 Seconds of Summer, hoping that its…
Read Full ArticlePHOTO GALLERY: The Pixies’ marathon show at the Paramount
By GENE STOUT Seattle photographer Alex Crick took the accompanying photos of The Pixies and opening duo Best Coast in concert Tuesday, Feb. 18, at…
Read Full ArticleCONCERT PREVIEW: Radio Raheem plans ‘big old dance party’ at High Dive
By GENE STOUT If Seattle funk/rock/soul band Radio Raheem had a mission statement, it would likely be “to have fun, get the people dancing and…
Read Full ArticleSeattle bands are gearing up for Moe’s | Neumos anniversary shows
By GENE STOUT Country-rock band Brent Amaker and the Rodeo are among a slew of Seattle area bands playing this week’s anniversary shows for Moe’s…
Read Full ArticleX and the Blasters celebrate a rockin’ ‘Family X-Mas’ at El Corazon
By MIKEL TOOMBS The first time I saw X and the Blasters perform together was in, wait for it, 1980. That show, at the North…
Read Full ArticleFormer R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck announces third Baja music festival
By GENE STOUT Former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, a longtime Seattle resident, has announced the dates and lineup for the third annual Todos Santos Music…
Read Full ArticleHilariously macabre Mudhoney video makes its debut at start of fall tour
By GENE STOUT Mudhoney’s new video of “The Only Son of the Widow From Nain” arrives just in time for the Halloween season. The comically…
Read Full ArticlePHOTO OP: Jim Bennett captures three frenzied days of music at CHBP
By GENE STOUT Seattle photographer Jim Bennett attended all three days of the 2013 Capitol Hill Block Party, capturing nearly 300 photos of the musicians…
Read Full ArticleSeattle rock photographers honored in two exhibits opening this week
By GENE STOUT Twenty Seattle concert photographers – many of them regular contributors to GeneStout.com – are featured in a special exhibit in April at…
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