Feature Archives - SMI (Seattle Music Insider)

Vance Joy Sells out Paramount twice
By Mocha Charlie on March 10, 2023
Like many musicians over the past few years, Australia’s Vance Joy wrote and produced new songs that gave fans many more reasons to come and...
Evil Disco Returns With Static X
By Mocha Charlie on March 5, 2023
Static X music and stage show continues to celebrate the bands founder and former frontman, Wayne Static (whom the metal world lost in 2014). They...
New Music: Oliver Elf Army ‘Goalless At Halftime’
By Max Stephens on February 11, 2023
“Isn’t she lovely? Isn’t she damned?” ask Oliver Elf Army in the lead single, “Olive Wallace,” from their new EP, Goalless at Halftime. While they’re...
Anthrax Brings The Noise to Seattle
By Mike Baltierra on January 23, 2023
Who would have guessed that thrash metal pioneers Anthrax would still be churning out albums and playing to packed theaters forty years after forming in...
The Who Hits Back: Seattle
By Christine Mitchell on October 27, 2022
I sipped my $25 shot of whiskey and leaned as far forward as I could in my Wednesday Addams dress as my friend Martin drank...
Morcheeba Electrifies Seattle, while Seattle Electrifies Morcheeba
By Brent Stavig on October 25, 2022
If you’ve been to as many rock concerts as I have, you know the standard procedure: Crowd trickles in, finds their seats, perhaps mingles in...
Scorpions Blow Roof Off Tacoma Dome
By Mike Baltierra on October 17, 2022
German rockers Scorpions have been churning out records and tours for nearly six decades. They get better and better over time and their near capacity...
Time to Catch a Fever Dream With Palaye Royale
By Mocha Charlie on October 16, 2022
Palaye Royale will drop their upcoming EP Fever Dream in its entirety on October 28th. With lyrics that evolve into stories that are riddled with...
Lamb of God Performs at Showare Center
By Mike Baltierra on October 12, 2022
Richmond, VA heavy metal band Lamb of God are trailblazing a path across North America, and they made a stop in Kent, WA at the...
Nothing More Brings Everything To Seattle
By Mocha Charlie on October 6, 2022
Having skipped some West Coast cities on their headlining tour earlier this year, Nothing More FINALLY returned this past week opening for In This Moment...
Sabaton Kicks off Tour at a Sold Out Paramount Theater
By Mike Baltierra on September 20, 2022
Swedish heavy metal giants Sabaton kicked off their North American tour (dubbed The Tour to End All Tours) on Thursday September 15, 2022, at the...
The Stadium Tour Rocks T-Mobile Park
By Mike Baltierra on September 3, 2022
The highly anticipated and twice rescheduled Stadium Tour co-headlined by Def Leppard and Motley Crue finally made a mid-week stop at T-Mobile Park in Seattle,...