Another Rainy Saturday

  {Solomon Burke plays Bumbershoot on Saturday, September 4 at 8:45 on the Starbucks Stage.} Solomon Burke is the biggest soul singer and writer you’ve probably never heard of. He started out life as a preacher, but fortunately for his many fans and the many artists who’ve sung his songs to stardom, he later moved [...]

Ask your parents. {Bob Dylan plays Bumbershoot on the Main Stage on Saturday, September 4 from 9-10:30pm.}

After our wait reached 45 minutes, my friend Nikki pointed out something that I missed. A fan who like us, had grown inpaitient waiting for Vampire Weekend to come out on stage, shouted “Usher would have been out by now.” It wasn’t for another 20 minutes did we find out what happened. After 65 minutes [...]

Viper Creek Club “Eliza” from Thomas Price on Vimeo. Regular readers of ARS will know that I’ve been quite taken with Letters, the debut album from Seattle electronic duo Viper Creek Club, saying they were “the Northwest’s best kept secret”. The band’s CD release show is next Thursday (September 9) at Nectar and they asked [...]

{Why Bacon? Why Cupcakes? Why Now? is at Bumbershoot on Monday, September 6 at 2pm on the Words and Ideas stage.} Cupcakes are saving the economy. It sounds preposterous (and it is) but the proliferation of cupcake cafes has been one of the few sources of growth in the seemingly-endless recession. As the Wall Street [...]