Another Rainy Saturday

Fly Moon Royalty’s sold out show Saturday night at the Comet had the makings of a great party. It was also the last time we’ll likely see this fast rising group in such a small space. Fly Moon Royalty are Adra Boo, a voluptuous soul singer with a commanding voice and stage presence, and Action [...]

The twenty-two year old British pop star Katy B hasn’t played too many shows in the US. Her excellent debut album On a Mission came out stateside last year and, while not selling a ton of albums, it has been a favorite amongst pop critics on their best of the year lists – including mine. [...]

  Anyone at the Triple Door Tuesday night for Meshell Ndegeocello’s sold out show on Tuesday night likely came to the same conclusion I did when exiting the venue: this was the first unequivocally great show of 2012. Ndegeocello, born Michelle Lynn Johnson in Berlin, is a brilliant musician whose show Tuesday night was a [...]

Here’s what’s important: doors opened at Key Arena on Friday night at 7pm for Guns N’ Roses’ return to Seattle. We began filing out of Key Arena after the final notes of “Paradise City” at 1:35am. The biggest rock band of my childhood played for over three hours. It was mostly an endurance test, albeit [...]

On Saturday night, the new country trio of songwriters Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley and Nashville superstar Miranda Lambert, The Pistol Annies, played their first proper show at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. I flew down from Seattle for the show, to see the songs from one of my very favorite albums of [...]