Another Rainy Saturday

  Late last Saturday night marked the first Seattle show for the LA-based all girl band since their very good debut LP I Will Be was released earlier this year on Sub Pop. They played to a mostly packed crowd at the High Dive.   I Will Be is a fine and consistent album that [...]

This video came into my inbox a few minutes ago and I figured I’d post it because Benny Benassi is playing at Showbox Sodo tonight, that and because I also love the robotic hook Kelis sings. Also because it’s raining too much to walk anywhere for lunch. “Spaceship” sounds like a Black Eyed Peas song [...]

  When talking about her fantastic new album Curiouser, Australian pop singer Kate Miller-Heidke said she “wanted to make a pop record that’s a sort of a pop record gone wrong.”   It’s in a sense an unconventional pop album, but it’s the opposite of a disaster. Curiouser is a brilliant pop album by a [...]

As it’s the first weekend of the summer, it’s an unusually busy weekend in Seattle. Here’s a hopeless incomplete list of some of the major things happening this weekend: The Sunset turns ten. This actually started last night. The Sunset has been a Ballard Avenue institution for a decade now and they have always provided [...]

    When the Columbia City Theater reopens its doors on Friday night, it’ll do so with nearly a century of history behind it. Dating back to 1917, the theater is said to be the oldest vaudeville theater in Washington state and, according to rumor, the stage where Jimi Hendrix first played on. It’s also [...]