by GENE STOUT Think of Bumbershoot as a treasure hunt. The three-day festival beginning Saturday, Sept. 3, and concluding Monday, Sept. 5, is a cultural…
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By GENE STOUT Fitz and the Tantrums may be the best band you’ll see this weekend at Bumbershoot. The indie/neo-soul band from Los Angeles has…
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By MIKEL TOOMBS Singer Adele canceled her June concert in Seattle, complaining of laryngitis. Now we have a good idea why. Friday night (Aug. 12)…
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Rod Stewart may not be “Forever Young,” as one of his more famous songs suggests, but he could have fooled me. At 66, the veteran…
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By MIKEL TOOMBS My favorite girl-group song isn’t The Crystals’ “He’s a Rebel” or The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby,” or anything else found on the…
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Hatless cowboys ruled the grandstand at the Puyallup Fair Friday night (Sept. 24), drawing a noisy, foot-stomping crowd for a double bill featuring Billy Currington…
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The Puyallup Fair begins each year with a new slogan. The 2010 slogan is “Free Your Glee,” which sounds more like a catch phrase for…
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Singer Steve Tyrell may have picked the hottest week of the year to play Seattle, but don’t let a heat wave keep you away from…
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By MIKEL TOOMBS When we talk Memphis blues and soul, Sid Selvidge’s name rarely comes up. And yet the singer-songwriter, a native of Greenville, Miss.,…
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In the mid- ’60s, the Supremes rose from Detroit’s housing projects to become the queens of Motown Records. At the height of their fame in…
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With a delicate balance of hope, heartche and humor, British singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey soared through a soulful performance Monday night (April 12) at the Moore…
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Pearl Jam will make its first appearance at the Jazz & Heritage Festival April 23-25 and April 29-May 2 — along with Aretha Franklin, Van…
Read Full ArticleSoul survivor Steve Cropper grooves to his Founders Award
All four Beatles once bowed from the waist in the presence of the man honored Thursday night with a Founders Award at the Experience Music…
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Steve Cropper, the man who co-founded Booker T. & the MGs and helped pen the classic “In the Midnight Hour” will be the recipient of…
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