Music

Bouncing Souls are Set to End Their 20th Anniversary Tour at The Trocadero

by Bill Meagher

You can count the number of bands who’ve stayed together for 20 years on two hands, and you can use just one to count those who’ve consistently released quality material for two decades. This year, The Bouncing Souls enter that esteemed category, and in keeping with their D.I.Y. roots, they’ve done it without major labels, [...]

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Seattle

Spring Awakening Is A Hit

by Cedric Ross

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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Seattle

Nada Mucho Presents: Sounds From The Seattle Underground

by Cedric Ross

Seattle’s own Nadamucho.com recently released a CD compilation titled:
Nada Mucho Presents: Sounds From The Seattle Underground (global seepej records)

It’s a 18 track CD which features such artists as At The Spine, Head Like a Kite and The Lonely Forest to name but a few. Culturemob interviewed Matt Ashworth and Kyle Kauzlarich from Nada Mucho to [...]

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Seattle

motorik: KLANG!

by Cedric Ross

“KLANG!” is the debut cd released by Seattle band motorik.
This 9 song CD (recorded by Jack Endino at SoundHouse and Gary Mula at Calleye) is all heart and no nonsense. They have the sound of a garage rock band with punk influences. Three tracks to pay attention to are 2> box of knives, 4> it’s [...]

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Motorik at The Blue Moon Tavern: Free

by Cedric Ross

Motorik plays live at the Blue Moon Tavern this Friday 6/20/08 for Free. They’re joined by Holy Name Dropouts and 3-Way Switch. Click here for more details.

I’ve seen this band at Skylark, Sunset Tavern and even the Nectar Lounge. It don’t matter where they play cuz they always bring the heat.
Motorik is a term coined [...]

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Seattle

Emerald City Subterranean DIY

by Rik Wright

When the Seattle music community gets all excited about how the City Noise Ordinance will destroy the local music scene, they are forgetting one thing. The Seattle music scene has a long history of being underground. One could argue that’s what gives the scene it’s passion – the fact that very few outside of its own [...]

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New Seattle Music Blog: Seattle Subsonic

by Shilo Urban

Hey all you crazy, fevered, music-obsessed Seattleites out there! There’s a new forum for enthusiasts to get a good dose of first-hand Seattle music news from people in the know: SeattleSubsonic, otherwise known as “The Sound From Under the Clouds.” Pretty good, huh?
Local music freak, uh, I mean local music fan Kevin LeDoux, formerly of [...]

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Seattle

Shilo Suggests: Your Seattle Music Weekend

by Shilo Urban

THURSDAY:

Trinity in Pioneer Square turns 3 years old this weekend and kicks off the big three-day event with a no-cover Thursday night with deejays Darude, Beefer, Noah D. and Pressha spinning along with many others; the fun continues all weekend long.
Right around the corner at Contour is the Booty Call Pump Up the Jammies [...]

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Seattle

Beck to Headline Bumbershoot 2008

by Shilo Urban

And here is the rest of the lineup so far: Stone Temple Pilots, Lucinda Williams, Neko Case, Ingrid Michaelson, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Jakob Dylan, !!!, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Saul Williams, Joe Bonamassa, M. Ward, The Walkmen, Asylum St. Spankers, Dan Deacon, MIDIval PunditZ, Blitzen Trapper, Bedouin Soundclash, Tim Finn, Dale Watson, John Vanderslice, Final [...]

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X at The Showbox (at the Market)

by Cedric Ross

I saw the Los Angeles based Punk band X at the Showbox (at the market) last night. It was a great show, I loved it! Boy, times sure have changed since they started in 1977.

video courtesy of bert2099
Here are my top 5 changes at an X show since the 1977
1. 1977 – one out of [...]

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