Grammy Awards

The Black Keys

Seven Nights: The Week in Music

From Eve 6 to HuskyFest.

Carolina Chocolate Drops

From Eve 6 to HuskyFest.

Attention Musical High School Kids: Grammy Camp at the Vera Project and EMP Is Coming Up on May 4

If you know of any musically inclined high school kids, encourage them to check this out--this year, the Seattle chapter of the Recording Academy is hosting a free, one-day Grammy Camp on Friday, May 4th at the Vera Project and the EMP. Students who are accepted to the camp will get to attend three ... More >>

Unlikely Bedfellows: The Ten Strangest, Most Unholy Collaborations in Rock

The news that Lil Wayne and Limp Bizkit had collaborated on a new single, subsequent to Durst and co.'s equally-befuddling signing to Cash Money label, was confusing at best, alarming at worst. (Actual quote from label co-founder Bryan "Birdman" Williams: "We have always admired how they have been a ... More >>

31 Nights of Shows

A look at March's concert calendar.

Will You Be Downtown Tonight With Nothing to Do? Go See Mash-Up Documentary Re:Generation at Pacific Place

Re:Generation is a Grammy®-associated documentary that chronicles the forced collaboration of a ton of different popular DJs/producers (Skrillex, DJ Premier, The Chrystal Method) with out-of-genre artists (The Doors, Leann Rimes, Erykah Badu), and as you might have guessed (watch the trailer below) ... More >>

Tell Me About That Album: Little Mountain by Said the Whale

​Creating a hook-heavy sound from a variety of indie rock influences, Vancouver, Canada's Said the Whale are hitting the road this month in support of their third full length, Little Mountain, which is out March 6th. The band won the Juno for Best New Group last year, and this year the band is ... More >>

Nicki Minaj's RedOne Collaboration"Starships" Is a Shameless and Infectious Pop Track

Nice Hits! is a Reverb column that unironically dissects, reviews, and appreciates the best songs of the current Top 40. It is unsnobbishly premised on the logic that just because a lot of the music on the radio is crap doesn't mean all the music on the radio is crap. The hit: "Starships," Nicki Min ... More >>

The 50 Greatest Things You Missed at the 54th Grammy Awards

It's something of a culture shock to be sitting in a basement apartment on a cold and rainy Seattle evening after having spent the previous night in Los Angeles in the same room (well, arena) as Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen. Part of me wants to curl up in bed and wallow in my post-vacation d ... More >>

Wilco

It's something of a culture shock to be sitting in a basement apartment on a cold and rainy Seattle evening after having spent the previous night in Los Angeles in the same room (well, arena) as Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen. Part of me wants to curl up in bed and wallow in my post-vacation d ... More >>

Tell Me About That Album: The Whole Love by Wilco

Wilco are a band's band. Second perhaps only to Radiohead in terms of love from rock critics, Wilco are also the kind of band other bands aspire to be like: Career artists who have sustained success on their own terms mostly outside the mainstream. Wilco's eighth album, The Whole Love, is their most ... More >>

Steep Canyon Rangers

Wilco are a band's band. Second perhaps only to Radiohead in terms of love from rock critics, Wilco are also the kind of band other bands aspire to be like: Career artists who have sustained success on their own terms mostly outside the mainstream. Wilco's eighth album, The Whole Love, is their most ... More >>

It's Fleet Foxes Vs. Eddie Vedder In the Fauxlk Folk Album of the Year Fight at the Grammys

If there was any doubt that Seattle is the NEW EPICENTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL FOLK SCENE naysayers were silenced last night when the Grammy brass announced that both Fleet Foxes' Helplessness Blues and Eddie Vedder's Ukulele Songs had been nominated in the category of Best Folk Album (full list of n ... More >>

Red Pop, Halvah and Peanut Soup: It's the Voracious Citywide Scavenger Hunt

This could all be yours, if you know where to look.​A good palate is a matter of practice. Gourmands who can distinguish between the Black Mission and Brown Turkey figs buried in a fruitcake generally aren't gifted with a preternatural set of taste buds: They've eaten their way to connoisseurs ... More >>

TH3RDZ New Track "Rap Rap" Is Just Some Good Ol' Fashioned Rap...Rap

http://soundcloud.com/th3rdzXperience, Candidt, JFK.​ The lineup: Candidt, JFK aka Ninjaface, Xperience. Three of the most animated MCs from [long-running Northwest hip-hop collective] Oldominion form TH3RDZ--a fact that you're probably already familiar with, but did you happen to notice that ... More >>

Okkervil River

http://soundcloud.com/th3rdzXperience, Candidt, JFK.​ The lineup: Candidt, JFK aka Ninjaface, Xperience. Three of the most animated MCs from [long-running Northwest hip-hop collective] Oldominion form TH3RDZ--a fact that you're probably already familiar with, but did you happen to notice that ... More >>

Tedeschi Trucks Band

http://soundcloud.com/th3rdzXperience, Candidt, JFK.​ The lineup: Candidt, JFK aka Ninjaface, Xperience. Three of the most animated MCs from [long-running Northwest hip-hop collective] Oldominion form TH3RDZ--a fact that you're probably already familiar with, but did you happen to notice that ... More >>

Seattle: A Great Place for Music, A Killer Town for Poster Art (Sasquatch! Exhibit Tonight!)

Mike King​We're spoiled in this city, not just with an abundance of great bands, labels, clubs, and record labels, but with a host of illustrators (from Patent Pending to Brad Klausen) and institutions with soft spots for high-quality poster art. Bumbershoot's Flatstock is an annual highlight, ... More >>

The Atlantic Story About Mumford & Sons That Could Be About The Head and the Heart

Kyle JohnsonWhile Mumford & Sons are touring in a vintage train this spring, The Head and the Heart (seen here) are traveling by sea.​There's an interesting story on The Atlantic's Culture channel today that dissects the logic behind the meteoric stateside rise of London's smooth-indie act Mum ... More >>

The Grammys: What Did All Mean, Maaaan?

via Hipster Runoff​Last night, with breaks only for the Simpsons, dinner, and a quick nip down the pub (the Cha Cha), I watched as much of the Grammys as I felt like. Riveting stuff as always. Lady Gaga wore something. Katy Perry's rack sang a song. Somehow I missed Cee-Lo Green singing with ... More >>

Sure, the Grammys Love Grunge, But They Also Dig the First-Ever Release From Sub Pop's World Music Imprint, Next Ambiance

​Though Seattle's '90s-era hitmakers Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Alice In Chains all picked up Grammy nods in last night's announcements (local list after the jump), Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba's I Speak Fula., the first release from Sub Pop's world music imprint, Next Ambiance, picked up a no ... More >>

"Get Schooled" Campaign to Help Kids Graduate Doesn't End With Tour Stop at Franklin High

You've all heard the ominous statistics: Every 26 seconds a kid drops out of high school, 70% of eighth graders don't read at grade level, one-third of all U.S. students fail to graduate high school, most low-income college students never finish. So to combat the issue, artists like Ludacris, Keri ... More >>

Four-Year-Old Boy Shoots Mother With Shotgun

​My grandma always said, "Caleb, never turn your back on your four-year-old son, because that little scamp might just load a cartridge into a shotgun and shoot ya!" Everyone always thought ol' Grammy was a little crazy for issuing such a specific warning about such an unlikely event. Especiall ... More >>

Now Even You (Yes, You!) Can Remix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix With the Free Multitrack

​Pheonix's Grammy-winning 2009 indie-rock gem Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix has been remixed, then remixed again, then remixed so many times it spawned a remix album. But now, dear readers, fans and aspiring music producers, you too can get in on the fun--the French quartet has released the album's ... More >>

Digable Planets

​Pheonix's Grammy-winning 2009 indie-rock gem Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix has been remixed, then remixed again, then remixed so many times it spawned a remix album. But now, dear readers, fans and aspiring music producers, you too can get in on the fun--the French quartet has released the album's ... More >>

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

​Pheonix's Grammy-winning 2009 indie-rock gem Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix has been remixed, then remixed again, then remixed so many times it spawned a remix album. But now, dear readers, fans and aspiring music producers, you too can get in on the fun--the French quartet has released the album's ... More >>

Maxwell and Jill Scott

​Pheonix's Grammy-winning 2009 indie-rock gem Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix has been remixed, then remixed again, then remixed so many times it spawned a remix album. But now, dear readers, fans and aspiring music producers, you too can get in on the fun--the French quartet has released the album's ... More >>

Afroman

​Pheonix's Grammy-winning 2009 indie-rock gem Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix has been remixed, then remixed again, then remixed so many times it spawned a remix album. But now, dear readers, fans and aspiring music producers, you too can get in on the fun--the French quartet has released the album's ... More >>

Steel Pulse

​Pheonix's Grammy-winning 2009 indie-rock gem Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix has been remixed, then remixed again, then remixed so many times it spawned a remix album. But now, dear readers, fans and aspiring music producers, you too can get in on the fun--the French quartet has released the album's ... More >>

Alice in Chains’ Homecoming

Sold-out shows and another Grammy nomination later, can grunge’s fourth major band finally get some respect?

Wow, Seattle Really Took It On the Chin at The Grammys Last Night

Laura MusselmanBen Gibbard and Death Cab for Cutie were beat to their Grammy by Phoenix last night.​Like Duff pointed out earlier this morning, The Grammys certainly aren't an indication of quality any more than the Billboard charts are. But, I have to say I expected Seattle to bring home at l ... More >>

Phoenix

Laura MusselmanBen Gibbard and Death Cab for Cutie were beat to their Grammy by Phoenix last night.​Like Duff pointed out earlier this morning, The Grammys certainly aren't an indication of quality any more than the Billboard charts are. But, I have to say I expected Seattle to bring home at l ... More >>

Tooth & Nail’s Latest Cover Boy

Meet the 25-year-old, Grammy-nominated Seattleite you’ve never heard of, at the local label that gets no respect (in town anyway).

A.M. Music News: Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam Nominated for Grammies A Sasquatch! Rumor

Laura MusselmanEddie Vedder with Pearl Jam at KeyArena on September 21. The band's single, "The Fixer," picked up a Grammy nod last night.​-- Grammy.com: Alice in Chains was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Hard Rock Performance category for "Check My Brain." Pearl Jam picked up a nomination ... More >>

REVERB: Los Volcanes: Neil Ticket

Their lives changed forever, thanks to a phone call from the Jazz Singer.

Speaking of Living Colour

They were my first inkling that black musicians and rock, especially heavier rock/metal, belonged in the same sentence. As a seven or eight-year-old kid in Detroit -- long before I heard about Jimi Hendrix or Bad Brains or Black Merda or Fishbone, hell before I even really knew about Chuck Berry o ... More >>

Fountains of Wayne (acoustic)

Thursday, January 15

Flight of the Conchords at SP20

Saturday, July 12

Why I’d Rather Hang With Alan Parsons than my Indie Rock Peers

Maybe because I relate to him more.

A Damn Good Reason to Watch the Grammy Awards

Maybe because I relate to him more.

The Police Sell Out!

Maybe because I relate to him more.

The Police on Tap for Grammys

Maybe because I relate to him more.

Death By Mixtape

And the winner is . . . nobody! The 2004 Grammy Awards.

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Labor Lessons

Take off! A celebration of Canadian Music Week

Labor Lessons

Slack Jobbing, Volume 3

Labor Lessons

Did the Grammys get it—gasp—right?

Labor Lessons