http://www.seattlesoundmag.com Northwest. Music. Life. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:42:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, following McCain's ... http://www.seattlesoundmag.com/2008/09/nancy-wilson-and-copyright-law-v-mccainpalin/ 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" awards that precede ... http://www.seattlesoundmag.com/2008/09/dcfc-wins-mtv-vma/ Germany's Nasoni Records to reissue The Late Great Planet Earth LP by Port Orchard's Mos Generator. MOS GENERATOR http://www.seattlesoundmag.com/2008/09/1897/ 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, ... http://www.seattlesoundmag.com/2008/09/more-bumbershoot-photos-sunday-and-monday/ 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 be held on the same day, ... http://www.seattlesoundmag.com/2008/09/endfest-goes-unplugged-and-why/ 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 the ... http://www.seattlesoundmag.com/2008/09/this-month-in-seattle-rock-history/ Apply now to perform at 2009 Folklife! NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE http://www.seattlesoundmag.com/2008/09/1891/ Blitzen Trapper plays tracks from Furr and its tour EP for Daytrotter. DAYTROTTER http://www.seattlesoundmag.com/2008/09/1890/ 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 is unconventional ... http://www.seattlesoundmag.com/2008/09/qa-with-mt-st-helens-vietnam-band/ 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 orchestras. George Shangrow, the ... http://www.seattlesoundmag.com/2008/09/orchestra-seattle-brings-diversity-in-0809-season/