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Bumbershoot - Day 2 Highlights
Day two brought torrential rains and whipping winds to the Seattle Center, along with yet another army of artists ready to play to the soaked masses. While the crowds might have been dampened, their spirits certainly weren't. Here are a few of our favorite moments from he second day ... »
Bumbershoot - Day 1 Highlights
The rains held off, but the music certainly didn't on the first day of this year's Bumbershoot festival, the 39th if you're counting. With the deluge of bands, it was impossible to catch everything, and it was even impossible to write about everything we saw and heard. We did ... »
Pickathon Overall, A Week Out
It took me a week to get my brain back from Pickathon, which seems a good place to start. I thought maybe I'd left it back in the barn or deep in the woods, or wherever I'd left my voice recorder. But alas, it had merely been blown out ... »
Pickathon Day Two
Day Two at Pickathon began with Justin Townes Earle and Samantha Crain sharing the workshop stage, talking about songwriting. It was an interesting juxtaposition of styles and experience—Earle, the son of one of the roots world's favorite singer-songwriters, has been onstage since he was 15 (he's 27 now) and ... »
Pickathon: Let the Barn Burnin’ Begin
It was an early Friday morning after a late Thursday night which landed me in a cab to the train station. Three and a half hours on the train, an hour or two tooling around Portland, 30ish minutes on the Max, 25 on the EcoShuttle, and I had finally ... »
Indigo Girls at Seattle Zoo
Indigo Girls’ annual stop at Woodland Park Zoo has, it may be fair to say, become a local tradition. Regardless of how recently they’ve released an album, the duo has reached a point in their career where they have literally hundreds of songs to pull from for their annual 90-minute sets. While ... »
Son Volt, Cowboy Junkies Take the Zoo
It's been twenty-one years since Cowboy Junkies lept ahead of their time to release Trinity Sessions - their second album, granted, but the one which undoubtedly solidified the mark they were making on modern music. It's hard to imagine many new-formed bands sticking together for so long these days, ... »
Americana Love Fest Encircled Zoo
It was a little bit too good to be true—four of the best singer-songwriters in modern acoustic/roots/folk/country music (Shawn Colvin, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris and Patty Griffin, seated in that order) onstage together, lending their voices to each other's exquisite compositions, filling in guitar solos, bounding off each other's inspiration. It took ... »
And the Techno Heavens Shined Down Upon Us…
Here we are, approaching the dead center of 2009, and last night's heavyweight double-team line-up of The Field and the Juan Maclean is looking like the best show of the year, thus far, for our Emerald City.
Despite the requirement of a car/bus ride there, Nectar is, most definitely, the ... »
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