Erik Blood

Several Coffee Slayings, Blue Sequins Swaying, Five Tons of Bling, Very Sexy Boys, Brits Full of Joy, Electro /Dance Rock Noise and a Duo Singing So Sweetly

Weekend Show Suggestions For You And Me

Tonight's Show Suggestions

Little Penguins, Exploding High Fives, Red Sea Sharks at Comet Tavern, 9 p.m., $6There's no doubt the Little Penguins should have received more local attention for Welcome To The Celebration, the band's first album of somber pop songs. But sophomore release Offer You This Cape, which features a new, ... More >>

Tonight's Show Suggestions

Magic BulletsOnry Ozzborn & The Gigantics, Chk Minus, Sonny Bonoho and Lookbook, Xntrik and Darwin at High Dive, 9 p.m., $8As if the presence of Onry Ozzborn and his five alter-egos--who form like Voltron to become The Gigantics--weren't enough to permit this word-poor writer to label tonight's ... More >>

Bark at the Moon

Young pups turn old tricks.

Magic Bullets

Thursday, January 22

Little Penguins (CD release)

Friday, November 28

The Moondoggies (CD release)

Thursday, August 21

Crazy Beautiful

Coming soon to a record store near you: Travis DeVries' answering machine anthology.

Feb. 8-15, 2006

This week's specialty screenings and venues.

Feb. 9-15, 2005

This week's specialty screenings and venues.

Seattle Weekly

Music Awards Showcase 2003

Dandy in the underworld

The Turn-Ons love music, and they love to look good playing it.

Goin' on Tonight!

If I were in Seattle this evening, I'd be checking out Noise for the Needy's Festival Season Kickoff Party at Woodshed Studios (located on the corner of Fairview and East Thomas). The show tonight features DJ Chrispo (Studio 66), Truckasaurus, Erik Blood, Exohxo, Origami Ghosts and Solomon Giorgio. ... More >>

The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

If I were in Seattle this evening, I'd be checking out Noise for the Needy's Festival Season Kickoff Party at Woodshed Studios (located on the corner of Fairview and East Thomas). The show tonight features DJ Chrispo (Studio 66), Truckasaurus, Erik Blood, Exohxo, Origami Ghosts and Solomon Giorgio. ... More >>

Live Music Roundup: Friday, May 1 through Sunday, May 3

Tonight: The Tea Cozies' CD release party with Katharine Hepburn's Voice at High DIve, 9 p.m., $7 It's natural to expect bouncy, upbeat pop music from a band with an adorable name like the Tea Cozies, and the band's brand-new record Hot Probs--produced by local pop music savant Erik Blood--deliver ... More >>

Rocket Queen: Rock ’n’ Roll Love Affair

The Unnatural Helpers and the Lights have a mutual crush, and No Depression announces its first music festival.

Erik Blood Needs a Job

Ahhh, if buzz could only pay the bills. My homo honey Erik Blood has been busily producing brilliant records over the last few months but has been without a "day job" for so long his straights have gotten rather dire. He's applied for so many things,but nothings panned out. Fortunately his BF is k ... More >>

The 10 Best Local Albums of 2009 . . . So Far

The Lonely H takes us back to the ’70s, Shabazz Palaces is so Digable, and Say Hi has us oohing and aahing.

And Now, Our Complete REVERB Festival Lineup and Schedule!

​We posted some of the bands playing the festival earlier, but this is the complete list of bands who'll be playing REVERB Saturday, October 3. This year, we've added a classy jazz venue, four venues are all ages, and wristbands (which you can buy over here) are $5 advance and $7 on the day of ... More >>

Updated REVERB Lineup: Now With a Mayoral Faceoff!

​That's right, people: we changed a couple of things around. And one of those changes is that the two men who want to run our city, Mike McGinn and Joe Mallahan, will be appearing at the Conor Byrne at 8:30 p.m. to verbally berate each other and (hopefully) enlighten us all as to what they act ... More >>

REVERB: Telepathic Liberation Army: Rock Clairvoyance

This quartet wants you. To dance.

Last Night: Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter the Moondoggies at the Showbox

L to R, Phil Wandscher, No Depression publisher Kyla Fairchild, Jesse Sykes, and Bill Herzog backstage at the Showbox​ There's a certain intensity that bands exude when they return to a home stage after touring for a while; their usually tight as hell and look very relieved to be in familiar t ... More >>

Rocket Queen: Heady Metal

Female drummers factor heavily in a genre’s Seattle resurgence.

Rocket Queen: The Four B’s

Backbeat, Barsuk, Blood, and a baby.

The Queen’s Jewels

An unprecedented sense of collaboration marked Seattle’s 2009 music scene.

Telepathic Liberation Army's CD Release Party For Phase One at Chop Suey Tonight

​ This baby's been a long time coming, so frontwoman Lisa Orth and her bandmates, guitarist Alice Wilder, bassist Michelle Nolan and newly recruited drummer Kellie Payne are no doubt ready to throw down their best game at Chop Suey tonight. Phase One was recorded last year at Mysterious Red ... More >>

KEXP's Hood To Hood

​ This baby's been a long time coming, so frontwoman Lisa Orth and her bandmates, guitarist Alice Wilder, bassist Michelle Nolan and newly recruited drummer Kellie Payne are no doubt ready to throw down their best game at Chop Suey tonight. Phase One was recorded last year at Mysterious Red ... More >>

The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

​ This baby's been a long time coming, so frontwoman Lisa Orth and her bandmates, guitarist Alice Wilder, bassist Michelle Nolan and newly recruited drummer Kellie Payne are no doubt ready to throw down their best game at Chop Suey tonight. Phase One was recorded last year at Mysterious Red ... More >>

Tonight: BARE @ Fremont Abbey, KEXP's Hood to Hood in West Seattle, The Tripwires @ the Skylark

The Moondoggies​BARE: an entirely a capella evening with singers from the Moondoggies, Grand Hallway, the Maldives, Goldfinch, Pablo Trucker. Fremont Abbey, 4272 Fremont Ave. N., 701-9270. 8 p.m. $10. The 1997 reissue of Beach Boys' Pet Sounds included a disc of 11 songs with all instrumentati ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

The Moondoggies​BARE: an entirely a capella evening with singers from the Moondoggies, Grand Hallway, the Maldives, Goldfinch, Pablo Trucker. Fremont Abbey, 4272 Fremont Ave. N., 701-9270. 8 p.m. $10. The 1997 reissue of Beach Boys' Pet Sounds included a disc of 11 songs with all instrumentati ... More >>

Little Penguins

The Moondoggies​BARE: an entirely a capella evening with singers from the Moondoggies, Grand Hallway, the Maldives, Goldfinch, Pablo Trucker. Fremont Abbey, 4272 Fremont Ave. N., 701-9270. 8 p.m. $10. The 1997 reissue of Beach Boys' Pet Sounds included a disc of 11 songs with all instrumentati ... More >>

Erik Blood

The Moondoggies​BARE: an entirely a capella evening with singers from the Moondoggies, Grand Hallway, the Maldives, Goldfinch, Pablo Trucker. Fremont Abbey, 4272 Fremont Ave. N., 701-9270. 8 p.m. $10. The 1997 reissue of Beach Boys' Pet Sounds included a disc of 11 songs with all instrumentati ... More >>

The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

From Slack Fest to Neko Case.

The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

From Thelonious Monster to Harry and the Potters.

SBTRKT

From Thelonious Monster to Harry and the Potters.

Indie Anna Jones: If You Can't Find a Job, Make Your Own

A conversation with Dumb Eyes' managing director, Michael Ellsworth.

Fly Moon Royalty

A conversation with Dumb Eyes' managing director, Michael Ellsworth.

Don't Miss Stephanie, Flexions, Erik Blood, & OC Notes at Neumos Tomorrow Night!

​Neumos has of late been doing a stellar job booking some powerhouse local lineups, and tomorrow, Tuesday the 10th, is a bright example. Reverb faves (and Reverb Fest 2011 veterans) Stephanie will be headlining with a unique and eclectic set of openers--dance-rockers Flexions, a solo set by ... More >>

Some of Seattle's Next Big Things Still Small Last Night at Neumos

Stephanie​Stephanie, Flexions, Erik Blood, OC Notes Tues, January 10th Neumos We can take it as given that the most interesting music being made at any given time or place isn't always the most popular. (In the same way that McDonalds serving billions and billions doesn't make theirs the best ... More >>

Despite Peaks And Valleys, The Soft Hills' Debut Transcends Fuzzy Folk

​The Soft Hills This Bird Is Coming Down To Earth 2/14, Tapete Records: The Soft Hills are a Seattle based four-piece rock band who have found a home in Germany on Hamburg based Tapete Records, a venue devoted to their rich, rockin', harmony-heavy sound. On their debut, the group brandishes g ... More >>