All Time Low: Future Hearts
All Time Low w/ Issues, Tonight Alive, and State Champs Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA 05.06.15 It seems rare these days to go to a concert chock-full of bands you want to see, but it seems as if every All Time Low tour that comes through Seattle arrives with a full lineup...
Interview: Jakübi
Interview: Jakübi 05.03.15 The Seattle Music News crew had a chance to pull up a seat on a sunny stairwell in Ballard with up-and-coming Aussie band Jakubi before their show at the Tractor Tavern. The band is made up of two brothers: Jerome Farah (lead...
Jakübi: Just In Time For Summer
Jakübi w/ The Bad Tenants Tractor Tavern, Ballard, WA 05.03.15 I’ve seen enough shows to know that it takes a lot to get a Seattle crowd to dance, but on Sunday night in Ballard, Australian five-piece Jakübi managed to make everyone move from the get-go. This was the...
Volbeat: On the Route 666
Volbeat w/ Anthrax WaMu Theatre, Seattle, WA 04.29.15 Fifteen years in, the Danish metal band Volbeat has seen their share of the international road. The band released their fifth studio album Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies back in 2013 and they’re still out...
Kathleen Hanna: Witness To The Harvest
Kathleen Hanna: Riot Grrrl Then and Now Lecture Neptune Theatre, Seattle, WA 04.29.15 Then and now, like a terribly titled middle-school history paper… Kathleen Hanna jokes about just making that shit up when she needed a name. And, while the name is a bit stale, it's...
Concert Preview: The Bright Light Social Hour
Preview: The Bright Light Social Hour w/Talk In Tongues & Duke Evers Tractor Tavern, Ballard, WA 05.08.15 Taking a lens to the ostensibly gritty realities of their generation, and thematically progressing through issues of aesthetic, personal and socio-political...