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Sound to Merge with City Arts
Hey Sound reader. We've got some bad news and some good news. Bad news first: the September issue of Sound will be the final issue of the magazine, as you know it. The good news: In October, Sound will be combining talents and resources with City Arts magazine to ... »
A Spot of Tea with Joe Syverson of the Final Spins
“I believe in the songs that I write,” says Joe Syverson, songwriter and singer for the rising Seattle rock group, Final Spins. Syverson is tall. He wears no socks and waits patiently for his tea to cool. His soft voice barely rises above the eclectic mix of ... »
Stone Gossard and Friends to do ZinZanni
The very day I heard of Teatro ZinZanni's existence, I vowed never to go near it. (I don't do clowns. And I don't do musicals.) Then Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard had to go and announce a show under ZinZanni's "Spiegeltent." A show featuring his musical cohorts and ... »
Loaded to Play Acoustic Benefit Show
Duff McKagan's supergroup Loaded is unplugging their gear and playing Seattle's tiny Sunset Tavern on Tuesday. (They'll be billed as the Rainmakers.) If you buy a ticket, you'll witness a hard band rocking it softly—and help keep a friend of local music financially afloat as he battles ... »
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 ... »
RA Scion on the Song Show
RA Scion spent an hour educating the audience at the Can Can last month in such subjects as: the goals of Common Market, the successes of Common Market, the end of Common Market (?), the broke-down politics of now, the difficulty of establishing oneself in the Seattle hip-hop scene, the BS politics ... »
Fatal Lucciauno Visits the Song Show (NSFW)
Sportn' Life Records' own Fatal Lucciauno recently came by the Can Can in downtown Seattle to talk to Mark Baumgarten about how he defines success and what brought him from Chicago to Seattle where he is currently regarded as one of the area's emcees. And he even preforms "Suicide Note" a cappella!... »
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