For the Love of Halsey
Halsey Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA 11.12.15 Thirty minutes after doors opened, the line was still a block long, coffee cups and donut boxes littering the sidewalk from people waiting in line for hours to get the best spot near the stage. For a sold out show the bar was...
A$AP Rocky: Electric Hype Machines
A$AP Rocky w/ Tyler, the Creator, Danny Brown, Vince Staples WaMu Theater, Seattle, WA 11.11.15 The sold out crowd swarmed forward toward the stage as one, a body of water converging in on itself in a sweaty, vibrating mess. And then the show started. In the huge,...
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies: Rainy Day Swing
Cherry Poppin' Daddies Dimitriou's Jazz Alley, Seattle, WA 11.10.15 On a cloudy Tuesday night with mist in the air, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies warmed up the absolutely packed dining room with a trip back to the halcyon days of Sinatra, sprinkled with a few stops in...
YACHT: A Pop Art Prognosis
YACHT The Sinclair, Boston, MA 11.09.15 L.A. band YACHT brought their electro-pop commentary to Cambridge club The Sinclair for a night fluctuating between wit and fatalism, with an empathetic eye on pop culture. Multi-instrumentalist Jona Bechtolt and vocalist Claire...
Lemolo: Red Right Return – Album Release Show
Lemolo w/ Mimicking Birds, Maiah Manser The Crocodile, Seattle, WA 11.06.15 A show is going to be special when the mother of the band’s creator brings hundreds of mini pastel-colored cupcakes for all to enjoy. Friday night at the Crocodile was certainly a night to be...
Circa Survive: Juturna 10th Anniversary Tour
Circa Survive w/ RX Bandits, Citizen Showbox, Seattle, WA 11.08.15 “The look on your faces as you come tumbling over the barricade and into another grown man’s arms,” Anthony Green observed of the multitudes of fans crowd surfing toward the stage, “is like the first...