City and Colour: Be Safe In The Sound
City and Colour w/ Hurray For the Riff Raff Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA 11.13.15 It was pouring rain outside, with an air of disbelief in the wake of the day’s news from Paris, but Seattle’s historic Paramount Theatre felt like exactly where we should all be,...
Album Review: Amy Viking – Opener
Amy Viking Album Review: Opener Delicate guitar leads and harmonies hover over the stereo field, while lush vocals play hide and seek amid a solid bass, relied on like a trustworthy friend. Amy Viking's 11-track album, Opener, captures a familiar essence of the 60’s...
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...