Alice in Chains Bring Sunshine to Seattle
Alice in Chains w/ The New Regime Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA 07.08.16 Gloomy and gray, overcast with rain, a typical Seattle summer, the sun eluding the local atmosphere. Breaking through, however, was the excitement on everyone’s faces at Alice in Chains, who...
Interview: Stu Hamm
Interview: Stu Hamm 07.06.15 Seattle Music News' photographer Neil Lim Sang had a chance to chat with Stu Hamm, read it here: SMN: Though I am very familiar with career, and I have seen you play several times from playing with Vai, to Satriani, to even solo gigs in...
Come Closer My Pretty: Ever So Android Live at High Dive
Ever So Android w/ Monsterwatch & I Will Keep Your Ghost High Dive, Seattle, WA 07.02.16 Everett’s chill-inducing electronic duo I Will Keep Your Ghost opened the night, bathed in cool light, pumping out their wavy, atmospheric tunes to a receptive crowd. Their...
Ladyhawke’s Pop Clarity Live in Seattle
Ladyhawke w/ Pillar Point Tractor Tavern, Seattle, WA 06.30.16 On her third album, Wild Things, New Zealand’s Ladyhawke – née Phillipa “Pip” Brown – dove further into pool of commercial pop, laying off some of her previously edgy self. That electro-pop presence, on...
Sing the Sentimental: Birdy Live at Neumos
Birdy w/ Lawrence Taylor Neumos, Seattle, WA 06.29.16 At just 20 years old, and already on tour supporting her third full-length album, Birdy’s live performance in Seattle was an impressively understated and beautifully executed night of music. The sold out crowd at...
Anything But Square: Four Corners EP Live
Asterhouse, Crystal Desert, The Pro-nouns, and Actionesse The High Dive, Seattle, WA 06.25.16 Spanning the gamut of rock from psychedelia to party punk, not one of the bands at the Four Corners: A Split EP release played a set that was anything less than explosive. At...