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Backseat by Carina Round

Backseat is an interesting song from this delightful artist by the name of Carina Round. “We’re born into the wrong time” is a phrase from this song. Carina Round is giving away a signed copy of her new EP “Things You Should Know” and I’ve been authorized to facilitate this give away.

If you’re a fan [...]

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regina spektor new artist pick

Vocalist/piano player regina spektor is my new artist pick. she’s new as in new to me but she’s been up to some amazing things. her vocal style is refreshing, her video concepts are off the hooks! in a word “amazing”. I write this blog from Seattle but I wish I were in New York just [...]

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Cedric Ross Checks In

After a long break, Cedric Ross returns to the culturemob blog scene and this time, he’s bringing his alter ego! Fred Roth of the Fred Roth Revue (ana-them records) joins Cedric Ross in random blogs of random subjects of all things amusing in Seattle. With this economy and all the “happy” people out there, I’m [...]

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Spring Awakening Is A Hit

Spring Awakening is one of the best musicals on Broadway. This winner of 8 Tony Awards (including best musical of the year) treats the Musical genre like a High School student treats a Summer vacation. This musical is Wild. I was fortunate enough to attend the opening of Spring Awakening at the Paramount Theatre in [...]

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Wild Sweet Orange at the Tractor

Wild Sweet Orange from Birmingham, Alabama appearing at the Tractor Tavern Sunday Oct 12
They’re on tour supporting their latest CD We Have Cause To Be Uneasy
They appeared on David Letterman a while back and by the miracle of YouTube, we have a clip here

Wild Sweet Orange Upcoming Events
Sun, 10.12.08 –
w/ The Audrye Sessions
Tractor Tavern
Seattle, [...]

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Dar Williams on Tour

Singer/songwriter Dar Williams is about to tour the U.S. in support of here latest CD release The Promised Land on Razor and Tie (now available).
Here’s an mp3 and a video for a track called “It’s Alright” for you below.
“It’s Alright” MP3
“It’s Alright” Video
Dar is…
a singer, songwriter, storyteller, mother, environmentalist and so much more. She’s also [...]

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Anberlin El Corazon Winner

The winner is…
Oliver Barnes of Federal Way, WA.
Oliver’s story reads:
My girlfriend likes Anberlin. Yes, I admit I don’t even know who they are. I can’t tell you a think about them other than what I read on myspace.com. But I love my girlfriend and I know this would make her day. So I’m am [...]

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UFO the Puppet Show

Today I interviewed Chadwick Dahlquist who is the musical director for the production of UFO the Puppet Show (a comedy). Watch him here as he explains this great Seattle event. This event starts Thursday Oct 9th at the Theatre Off Jackson (409 7TH Ave S, Seattle). Oops!!! One correction to the video: Chadwick says the [...]

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Evergreen Speedway Demolition Derby

Evergreen Speedway Demolition Derby and Fireworks Show
Billed as the premier demolition derby of the season, this event did not disappoint and CultureMob was there. Police chase, cars rolling over, rabid fans cheering, school busses in figure 8 races, Racey the mascot, Limo world record jump by the great Mr. Dizzy, burning rubber, boat races and [...]

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Talib at Hip Hop Live! Tour

Yo Seattle! I take it you’ve all heard about the Hip Hop Live! Tour going down this Sunday at the Showbox at the Market
This Sunday???

Did you check out the line up?
Takib Kweli
David Banner
Little Brother
B.O.B.
I’m getting emails from promoters, record label owners and radio personalities asking me if I’m going to be there. That’s when I [...]

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Spring Awakening at the Paramount

Girl About Town teamed up with Culturemob to interview two special cast members of the hit Broadway musical Spring Awakening (winner of 8 Tony awards, including Best Musical of the Year).
This is the video of Darnell Sue interviewing cast members Claire Sparks and Lucas Wells.

Spring Awakening will be at the Paramount Theatre (Seattle) from October [...]

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Anberlin Ticket Giveaway

The Rock band Anberlin is lighting it up…again! Anberlin will be in Seattle to support the release of their new CD New Surrender, Anberlin is giving away a PAIR OF TICKETS for their show at El Corazon on Saturday October 11th.
Rules:
All you have to do is write me an email about how you would describe [...]

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AKIMBO Interview

Culturemob stopped by to visit Seattle rock band (with lots of hair) AKIMBO at Seattle’s own King Cobra. We were joined by the very talented Michelle of PinacheRock Booking (their booking manager). We (Jon, Michelle and Aaron) talked and laughed a lot and sort of made fun of their drummer Nat Damm who wasn’t available [...]

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Nikki Sixx: Sixx AM: Tomorrow

Nikki Sixx, a founding member and bass player of Motley Crue and member of the band Sixx AM just re-released The Heroin Diaries on Paperback. He also just released a Soundtrack to the book and has a new video out called Tomorrow.

I checked it out today! As far as rock videos goes, this is [...]

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ANBERLIN ON JIMMY KIMMEL TONIGHT

Anberlin on Jimmy Kimmel Tonight!!!
This news just in from Jessi at Sneak Attack Media (Brooklyn, NY)

Tune into Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight on ABC at 12:05 AM EST to catch a live performance from Anberlin. Their new album, New Surrender, is out tomorrow.
NEW SURRENDER ON SMARTPUNK
ITUNES
On their upcoming national tour, Anberlin will be hosting a few [...]

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