Wilco with Jenny Lewis: Meditations on Eccentricity
Wilco w/ Jenny Lewis Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA 08.11.15 From the deeply personal to off-the-cuff independence, WIlco has long been respected for their genre-bending eccentric brand of Americana. Call it dad rock, call it alt-country, it doesn’t matter, their...
Walk the Moon: Different Colors, Same Party
Walk the Moon w/ Milky Chance and COIN Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA 08.10.15 Four years ago Walk The Moon was playing to only a handful of people at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern and today they are selling out amphitheaters. Dominated by youngsters with face paint, the crowd...
Of Monsters and Men: A Formula For Dreams
Of Monsters and Men w/ Pure Bathing Culture Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA 08.09.15 Taking the stage just before sunset at Marymoor Park, Of Monsters And Men made the perfect end to a Sunday night, lulling the audience into their dream world with impeccable harmonies and...
Alabama Shakes: Who Needs Aretha?
Alabama Shakes w/ Chicano Batman Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA 08.08.15 Ok – so that title might be a bit of an overstatement. Because without powerhouse vocalists like Aretha there might not be a Brittany Howard, and thus no Alabama Shakes. But when one audience member...
Taylor Swift: Come As Your Fav Taylor
Taylor Swift w/ Vance Joy and Shawn Mendes CenturyLink, Seattle, WA 08.08.15 It has been two years since Taylor Swift last visited the Pacific Northwest. Then, twenty thousand screaming fans packed into the Tacoma Dome to hear Swift belt out her new hits off her then...
Concert Preview: Mac Sabbath
Preview: Mac Sabbath El Corazon, Seattle, WA 08.12.15 Mac Sabbath is, quite frankly, about the creepiest band I can imagine. Is it punk? Goth? Metal? Is it all a joke? Dressed up like the antagonizingly popular characters forever enshrined within the happiest of...