Another Rainy Saturday

This is quite cool. The fine people at Easy Street Records are giving $5 to the Vera Project for every end of year Top 10 list you send them. The Easy Street website says: What are your top 10 records of 2011? Send us your lists and we will donate $5 to the Vera Project for each [...]

A band with three lead songwriters, three lead performers, three lead voices is doomed from the start. The clashing viewpoints and conflicting desires — all that raw emotion and creativity creates a thunderhead that cannot be contained. History is littered with unbelievably talented bands that cracked under the pressure of their collective members, and Menomena, [...]

Wednesday night’s show at the Vera Project was all about the numbers. Four electric guitars, two electric basses, two drum kits, a 12-string guitar, three trumpets, two tubas, a violin, an oboe, a trombone, a banjo and a saw. And those are just the instruments I could actually see. There were no less than 13 [...]

A very necessary, but no less sincere, happiest of happy birthdays goes to the Vera Project, who turns ten today. Opening their doors for the first time on January 27, 2001, with a show from Murder City Devils, The Blood Brothers and Botch, the all ages non-profit has been one of the most welcoming and [...]

{Mad Rad has two CD release shows coming up. The first is at Neumos on Friday, December 3 with Champagne Champagne, Viper Creek Club and White Fang, 21+; the second is at the Vera Project on Friday, December 10 with Champagne Champagne, Helladope and Infinite Loop, all ages.} For two years now, the Seattle hip [...]