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Southern Culture On The Skids: Carolina fried and delicious (Photo Slideshow)
By Christine Mitchell on January 20, 2014
Most people that I know cradle some special music close to their heart because it feeds their soul. But I’m pretty sure that Southern Culture...
TIMBRRR! Winter Music Festival In Leavenworth: A musical hot toddy (Photo Slideshow)
By Christine Mitchell on January 16, 2014
I was as giddy as a teenager when photographer Arlene Brown and I headed over Stevens Pass to Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival in Leavenworth last...
Seattle represented once again at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
By Christine Mitchell on January 5, 2014
“The Wonder Twins” Arlene Brown and Christine Mitchell discuss this year’s class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. Rock and Roll Hall of Hame Class of 2014:...
SMI Music Preview: Planes On Paper – The East End Session EP
By Christine Mitchell on December 31, 2013
Sweetness, intimacy, and delicate harmonies permeate The East End Session, the debut EP from Planes on Paper, which consists of Navid Eliot (vocals, guitar) and...
Live Review: A look back on 107.7 The End’s ‘Deck The Hall Ball’ (Photos)
By Christine Mitchell on December 9, 2013
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,...
SMI New Music Preview:’Magic Hour by Luscious Jackson
By Christine Mitchell on December 8, 2013
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...
Black Joe Lewis delivers a knockout at the Neptune (Photos)
By Christine Mitchell on December 3, 2013
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...
SMI New Music Preview: Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2
By Christine Mitchell on November 26, 2013
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...
SMI New Music Preview: Lady Gaga goes ‘ARTPOP’
By Christine Mitchell on November 25, 2013
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...
Blitzen Trapper: A bowshot to the heart at the Neptune Theater (PHOTOS)
By Christine Mitchell on November 25, 2013
“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...
New Music Preview: Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington – High Rise EP
By Christine Mitchell on November 8, 2013
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...
Hank3 rocks Hayseeds and Hardcores at The Showbox Market (Photos)
By Christine Mitchell on October 24, 2013
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...