Coheed and Cambria: We Are All One
Coheed and Cambria w/ Knapsack, Thank You Scientist Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA 10.23.15 It's Friday night, and after a short road trip to the Emerald City and a day discovering some of the wonderful eccentricities that only a large Pacific Northwest city would have, I...
twenty one pilots: Controlling Your Pandemonium
twenty one pilots w/ Echosmith and Finish Ticket Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA 10.22.15 To be perfectly honest, I was not a Twenty One Pilots fan. I couldn’t tell you a single song of theirs. So with no expectations about either their music or their performance, I...
The Neighbourhood: Brooding On A Beach
The Neighbourhood w/ Bad Suns, Hunny Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA 10.21.15 It’s not all black and white. Except when it is. And a live show from SoCal rock band The Neighbourhood is perfectly curated to give you exactly what they want you to see. The all-black stage is...
MS MR: Get Wrapped Up in the Chaos
MS MR w/Jack Garratt, Crater Neptune Theatre, Seattle, WA 10.20.15 Lizzy Plapinger is sweating, and the crowd isn’t far behind. Half of the New York-based duo MSMR – along with producer Max Hershenow – Plapinger mesmerized the crowd at The Neptune with her spastically...
Ghost: Sanctum Divine
Ghost El Corazon, Seattle, WA 10.20.15 Driving down Stewart Street towards El Corazon, I saw a line of people wrapping around the block. "That can't be for tonight," I said to myself. I was wrong. Never have I seen so many people waiting to get into a show at the...
Wild Belle: In the Mix
Wild Belle w/Django Django Showbox, Seattle, WA 10.20.15 Chicago-based sibling duo Elliot and Natalie Bergman brought their band Wild Belle to the Showbox on Tuesday night, opening for Django Django. Borne of happenstance and incidental collaborations, this brother...