All posts by Christine Mitchell
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Live Review: A look back on 107.7 The End’s ‘Deck The Hall Ball’ (Photos)
Photos by Arlene Brown and Xander Deccio AB: So, there we were. Sitting in the VIP Lounge watching hometown The Head and the Heart set up,...
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SMI New Music Preview:’Magic Hour by Luscious Jackson
Luscious Jackson’s sixth release and fourth full album Magic Hour (self-released on the band’s own City Song label) is a continuation of what you know...
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Black Joe Lewis delivers a knockout at the Neptune (Photos)
If you ever get the feeling that rock-n-roll has run its course, is washed-up, over, done with, or dead, let me offer three bands up...
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SMI New Music Preview: Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2
I like Eminem. And it’s not because I love rap (it’s just okay), or because I’m a hair away from white trash (yup), or because...
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SMI New Music Preview: Lady Gaga goes ‘ARTPOP’
For what it is, Lady Gaga’s third album of new material, ARTPOP (Interscope Records), is good. Not awesome or groundbreaking, just good. And that’s just...
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Blitzen Trapper: A bowshot to the heart at the Neptune Theater (PHOTOS)
“There is no sound in the world like the one of an arrow leaving the bow,” Eric Earley told us shortly before his band, Blitzen...
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New Music Preview: Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington – High Rise EP
I should so sue me since I dared myself to review this album and I lost. I thought that perhaps this new Stone Temple Pilots...
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Hank3 rocks Hayseeds and Hardcores at The Showbox Market (Photos)
So I’m chatting with my sister about grass-fed vs. corn-fed beef, organic vs. GMO, big corp. food vs. the farmer wanting to grow a top-notch...
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New Music Preview: ‘Let’s Be Still’ from The Head And The Heart
The world is bigger than we are. That certainly feels plain as one listens to The Head And The Heart’s new album, Let’s Be Still,...
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New Music Preview: Tin Star by Lindi Ortega
Although I consider myself a rocker, I must confess that I have a little bit of a secret crush on country music…if it’s the right...
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Decibel Festival 2013: My Lorde that girl is good (Photos)
It was a rainy Seattle afternoon/evening, and as the water drenched the roadways into rivers, a lineup was forming outside the Showbox Market to see...
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Live Review: Celebrating Presidents Day the right way with POTUSA
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SMI Radio Ep.46 On Demand: Global Heat / Bob Tomberg (MANW) and Jessica Latshaw
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Capitol Hill Block Party 2012: Allen Stone ‘Soulidifies’ his reputation (Photo Slideshow)
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SMI Radio Ep. 41 On Demand: Musical Tribute to Judy Roth, Barbara Davis Roth and Jan Arthur Roth
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Roger Fisher and Friends keep “Love Alive” during the holiday season (Video)
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1 month away! Don’t miss out on the best weekend of the summer :)Timber! Outdoor Music Festival Returns July 11-13 and is the best weekend getaway of the summer. See Thee Oh Sees, Mark Lanegan with the Passenger String Quartet, Seattle's Tribute to the Last Waltz and more while paddling in a river, stargazing with astrophysicists and so much more. summer.timbermusicfest.com
Herbivore/Carnivore fest put on a little shindig at Substation in early June, and the eclectic mix of bands included Cashing In Karma, Pulp Romance, Damn The Flood, Blue Avenue, and The Ugly Cousin Bros..
Herbivore/Carnivore takes a bite out of Substation
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Substation, nestled into the divide between Fremont and Ballard, remains a delightfully odd venue that caters toward the weird. It’s the sort of place where scads of up and coming bands you haven’...Parachute : The Young Tour stopped in Seattle last week... Review & full gallery is up!
Parachute: Going Strong & Young
seattlemusicinsider.com
Fans in nearly forty cities across the US will see Parachute on “The Young Tour,” which began back in April and will run through the end of June. They stopped in Seattle last week at The Neptune a...We broke the story that Davin Michael Stedman is working on an album distributed by Tuff Gong International. Now have a listen to Davin & The Trail Blazer Band in Port Antonio, Jamaica as they rehearse for the big show.
West Indian Rock combines big names from Jamaican music scene like Sly & Robbie, with the unsung of Northwest scene such as Jeremy from Steel Beans and Alex George, on a release that will be delivered around the globe by Bob Marley's famous label.
☆ Keep supporting local musicians around the world, and look out for the West Indian Rock TV episode on Band in Seattle.Subscribe to SMI
