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Live Show Review: Daughter sells out Neumos

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After a sold out show at the Neptune Wednesday night, I got my second dose of packed house in two days, this time at Neumos on Thursday. The very full venue was energized, the audience on pins and needles excitedly awaiting Daughter to come on stage. You may not yet be familiar with Daughter. The [...]

Live Show Review: Jim James at the Neptune

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Wednesday night at the Neptune is a great night to a see a show. Opening acts at the Neptune start promptly at 8pm, assuring the headlining act will end at a decent hour. I was there to see Jim James, lead singer of My Morning Jacket, who has been performing his solo work off and [...]

Live Show Review: Hundred Waters and Alt-J (∆) at the Neptune

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As I grow comfortable with my own personal listening habits over my lifetime, it has become easier to recognize bands that will stand the test of time (for me) and those that won’t. It’s usually based on how quickly it takes me to fall in love with an album. Instantly fall for a new band [...]

Live Show Review: Kishi Bashi sells out the Crocodile

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“I was opening for Sondre Lerche a year ago. Now I’m mother-fucking headlining!” Thus the rise of Kishi Bashi is captured, as spoken by the man himself. Kishi Bashi is not a band, but the moniker of Kaoru “K” Ishibashi, who happens to have been born in Seattle and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. This past [...]

Pickwick to play Seattle Mariners’ Opening Day Ceremony

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Yep: Pickwick, those indie-soul darlings you’ve been hearing so much about, are going to play Safeco Field on April 8, when the Seattle Mariners open the home 2013 baseball season against the newly American League West Houston Astros. They won’t be the first independent Seattle artist to play opening day at Safeco. In 2011, Macklemore [...]