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New Music: Zookraught’s ‘Grip It Shake It’
By Christine Mitchell on August 8, 2023
*Editor’s note: You will find many superlatives in this review. You may question the high percentage of charged adjectives, but it is advisable that you...
Ghost Brings Re-Imperatour to White River
By Mike Baltierra on August 6, 2023
Swedish rock band Ghost has seen tremendous success in their career. From playing El Corazon when they came to Seattle early on, to playing an...
Taylor Swift at Lumen Field (Barbenheimer’s Version)
By Isaac Kaplan-Woolner on July 25, 2023
Taylor Swift is Barbenheimer. She has all the glittering fun, female empowerment, and emotional vulnerability of Barbie. And she has the (arguably unnecessarily) long runtime,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Sabaton Kicks off North American Tour at the Paramount Theater
By Mike Baltierra on August 30, 2022
After a long and frustrating two-year wait, Sabaton (Joakim Brodén/Vocals, Pär Sundström/Bass, Chris Rörland/Guitar, Tommy Johansson/Guitar, and Hannes Van Dahl/Drums) is back on tour and...
Manchester Orchestra Amazes The Moore
By Alex Crick on February 28, 2022
Manchester Orchestra brought their latest tour to Seattle and entrancing a packed crowd at the Moore Theatre.
New Music: Bad Optics’ ‘Pax Americana’
By Christine Mitchell on January 25, 2022
I’m going to lay this out right here, right now: I probably shouldn’t be reviewing Bad Optics’ debut album, Pax Americana. I feel too intimately...
New Music: FUNERALHOMES’ ‘HAUNTS’
By Christine Mitchell on October 22, 2021
Let me tell you about this Brad Heyne guy, this Everett guy, this bartending while basically playing a show at the same time guy, this...