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Nancy Wilson v. McCain/Palin
Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider is reporting that Heart's Nancy Wilson is upset with the McCain campaign for using "Barracuda" as somewhat of a theme song representing Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin. Wilson publicly and explicitly asked the campaign to stop using her band's classic song to help sell their candidate. Yet, ... »
DCFC Wins MTV VMA
As reported on MTV News, Death Cab for Cutie took home one of the "professional categories" MTV Video Music Awards, winning Best Editing for "I Will Possess Your Heart." Actually it was editors Aaron Stewart-Ahn and Jeff Buchanan who won the award, these being the "professional categories" ... »
Bumbershoot in Photos
In case you missed our previous Bumbershoot In Review post, here's another look back at the three days of music and merriment, through the lenses of photographers Christine Unten and Hayley Young. Photos of !!!, Final Fantasy, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Nada Surf, These Arms Are Snakes, the ... »
Endfest Goes Unplugged and Why
At 5pm yesterday, Andrew Harms, the well-known evening DJ/heart-and-soul of alternative powerhouse station 107.7 The End announced on the air that there will be some changes in this year's Endfest. The festival, which was set for Saturday, September 13, at Marymoor Park will now ... »
This Month in Seattle* Rock History
Your Sound rock history devotee is headed to a foreign land for two weeks, so the current “This Week” is a selection of events from the next month (or so) in Seattle’s rock past. We’ll return to our regularly scheduled “History” next month.
1985: September 1
C/Z Records releases ... »
Q&A with Mt. St. Helen’s Vietnam Band
Just one month after not only the band’s first live performance ever but headlining at Neumos in Seattle, Mt. St. Helen’s Vietnam Band played a show (the band’s third) with Man Man and the Walkmen, in Vancouver, B.C. last week. The path this Seattle band has taken ... »
OSSCS brings diversity in 08/09 season
Previously, I have talked at length about Orchestra Seattle and the needed diversity they bring to Seattle's classical music scene. It isn't so much that the orchestra is playing composers and pieces outside of the mainstream, but they are playing works that are mostly ignored by other ... »
U.S.E. Cancels MusicfestNW Show
While this weekend's MusicfestNW in Portland will surely be a festive affair, it has just come to Sound's attention that it will be slightly less festive. Seattle's eletronic party rock explosion, United State of Electronic, announced today that it has canceled its Friday night appearance at Holocene, where ... »
Chris Funk Joins Blue Giant
The Portland group that made its Seattle debut just two months ago at Sound's second anniversary party is now officially a "super" group, as the latest project from Viva Voce's Kevin and Anita Robinson have just announced that multi-instrumental wonder and Decemberists bandmember Chris Funk has joined the band. ... »
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Love as Laughter @ Sunset Tavern
