AUSTIN, Texas — The eighth annual Austin City Limits Festival came to a muddy, grungy close Sunday night with a powerful concert finale by Pearl…
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AUSTIN, Texas — Though Pearl Jam has played thousands of venues in its nearly 20-year career, few have been as storied as the KLRU-TV studios…
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It’s time to dust off the poodle skirt and rock around the clock. Seattle Symphony kicks off its 2009-2010 Pops Season with a “back to…
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Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders called it “ladies’ night” at Marymoor Park. Three feisty, female-fronted bands — The Pretenders, Cat Power and Juliette and the…
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Has Elvis Costello “gone country”? Not quite. But there’s definitely a twang in his sound these days. His current album, “Secret, Profane & Sugarcane,” explores…
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Though he has a new album to promote, Elvis Costello will surely offer a generous tasting of his vintage songs Sunday night at the Chateau…
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Beatlemania consumed Seattle when the Fab Four played its first concert in 1964. The Edgewater Hotel, apparently the only Seattle hotel to accept them as…
Read Full ArticleJim Basnight and the Moberlys: a 25-year retrospective CD
In the raucous, fun-loving era that preceeded grunge, bands such as Jim Basnight and the Moberlys rocked Northwest clubs with an infectious brand of power…
Read Full Article‘Sweet Baby James’ does the Puyallup
Iconic singer-songwriter James Taylor is the latest addition to the Puyallup Fair grandstand lineup. Taylor, who launched his career in the early ’70s with “Sweet…
Read Full ArticleThe B-52s kick off ZooTunes lineup
The 26th season of the ZooTunes concert series opens with The B-52s June 17 at the north meadow at the Woodland Park Zoo. The series…
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Mississippi may soon have the coolest license plate in the country. The Elvis Presley Fan Club in Tupelo, Miss., Presley’s birthplace, last year lobbied the…
Read Full ArticleQueen of rock ‘n’ roll photography
Northwest photographer Jini Dellaccio, who created iconic images of Northwest rock bands in the ’60s, is the subject of a new book, “Jini Dellaccio: Rock…
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