Another Rainy Saturday

When reading Crazy Enough, the memoir of Susan Storm Large, it’s difficult to keep one quote from Spinal Tap drummer Mick Shrimpton far from your mind: “As long as there’s sex and drugs, you know, I can do without the rock and roll.” The former finalist of reality TV show Rockstar: Supernova writes very little [...]

Seattle pop band Hotels are celebrating the release of their newest EP, Cinemascope I, next Friday with a party at Columbia City Theater. It’s the first of three EPs, making good on a successful Kickstarter project from late last year. The show also features fellow ARS-endorsed dance pop bands Noddy and Sports, so it’ll make for [...]

It’s been mentioned a few times online, including here, that Record Store Day is coming up next Saturday (April 21). There are a bunch of in-store performances throughout the day in Seattle’s fine record stores (particularly at the Lower Queen Anne Silver Platters – selfishly, it’s great because it’s only a few blocks from my [...]

The really great New Zealand band The Naked and Famous are coming to Seattle for a show on Tuesday, April 24 at Showbox Sodo with Vacationer and Now, Now. It’s a few days after Record Store Day, but we have a very cool contest for some of our vinyl-loving and/or Naked and Famous-loving readers. We have [...]

When the prolific, Parisian by way of Canada, musician Jason Charles Beck, better known as Chilly Gonzales, comes to the Triple Door next Tuesday, he’ll be playing the music that put him in the record books, not necessarily what made him famous. Gonzales holds the Guinness World Record for the longest piano perfomance, at somewhere [...]