Another Rainy Saturday

Tired. When people asked me how the DJ Shadow show was Wednesday night, that’s the first answer I would give. “He seemed tired.” After touring non-stop for a year and a half, performing the same fully synced music and video-based set day after day, month after month, I’m sure I’d feel that way too. Shadow’s [...]

  Xavier De Rosay, half of the French electronic duo Justice, told Rolling Stone this week something I found interesting for a band that had its breakout hit with a song called “D.A.N.C.E.” “We don’t really make dance music,” he said. “Some of the tracks are danceable, but whether it’s on record or live, we’re [...]

  Electro-punk rockers, The Naked And Famous, rolled into Seattle Tuesday night for a rambunctious show in support of their debut release, Passive Me, Aggressive You (2011). Kicking off the first of four final tour dates, the Auckland, New Zealand-based four-piece ripped through an hour plus long set that included selections from Passive Me, as [...]

Porcelain Raft and Purse Candy have a lot in common. Both bands are realizations of one person’s artistic vision (Porcelain Raft’s Mauro Remiddi, and Purse Candy’s Matthew Ellis); both use modern music technology to fill out their sound in the studio and on stage; both played at SXSW this year; and both brought a single [...]

For Kelly Clarkson’s show Friday night at the Town Toyota Center, more was at stake than a pop show in a small town. It was a sold out show in an arena where, in just a few days after, there is a proposition put before Chelan County voters to approve a .1% sales tax increase [...]