Kevin Capp

Live Music Tonight: The Grouch (of Living Legends)

The Tuesday Review: The Airborne Toxic Event's Self-Titled Debut

REVERBfest Lineup: Market Street Athlete

Tonight's Show Suggestions

Seattle's True Independent Film Festival

Letters to the Editor

Seattle's hip-hop scene? Not so much snobbish as nonexistent.

The Grouch of Living Legends

Thursday, May 22

Nas

Friday, May 16

206 Degrees and Rising

Sunday, May 18

Peter Moren of Peter, Bjorn and John

Tuesday, April 29

Lyrics Born

Sunday, April 27

Luckyiam of Living Legends + JFK of Grayskul

Sunday, April 13

Akil the MC of Jurassic 5

Tuesday, April 15

John Lee Hooker Jr.

Thursday, March 20

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Monday, February 18

The Decemberists

Wednesday, January 30

Raul Midon

Tuesday, February 5

Eek-a-Mouse

Saturday, January 19

The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

Saturday, January 19

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 >>

Paste Magazine Needs Help

As my header already states, Paste Magazine needs your help, music fans. As my colleague and friend Kevin Capp said to me this morning, the advertising cow is not currently lactating, which (on top of the demise-of-print-journalism-in-general) is doing a number on the music magazines we've known and ... More >>

Live Music Round Up: Saturady, May 16

Three awesome rock bands-- The Obits (pictured courtesy Jim Herrington), the Lights and Unnatural Helpers -- play Neumos tonight at 8 p.m. for $10 (advance). Then, everyone's favorite spoof artist, Richard Cheese, plays El Corazon at 8 p.m. for $45. And local MC Scribes has an all ages CD relea ... More >>

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

Three awesome rock bands-- The Obits (pictured courtesy Jim Herrington), the Lights and Unnatural Helpers -- play Neumos tonight at 8 p.m. for $10 (advance). Then, everyone's favorite spoof artist, Richard Cheese, plays El Corazon at 8 p.m. for $45. And local MC Scribes has an all ages CD relea ... More >>

Bumbershoot: Sunday’s Recommended Shows

Three awesome rock bands-- The Obits (pictured courtesy Jim Herrington), the Lights and Unnatural Helpers -- play Neumos tonight at 8 p.m. for $10 (advance). Then, everyone's favorite spoof artist, Richard Cheese, plays El Corazon at 8 p.m. for $45. And local MC Scribes has an all ages CD relea ... More >>

Artifakt 3-Year Anniversary

Three awesome rock bands-- The Obits (pictured courtesy Jim Herrington), the Lights and Unnatural Helpers -- play Neumos tonight at 8 p.m. for $10 (advance). Then, everyone's favorite spoof artist, Richard Cheese, plays El Corazon at 8 p.m. for $45. And local MC Scribes has an all ages CD relea ... More >>

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

Three awesome rock bands-- The Obits (pictured courtesy Jim Herrington), the Lights and Unnatural Helpers -- play Neumos tonight at 8 p.m. for $10 (advance). Then, everyone's favorite spoof artist, Richard Cheese, plays El Corazon at 8 p.m. for $45. And local MC Scribes has an all ages CD relea ... More >>

Tonight: Black Whales, Grand Archives, Foreign Exchange

Black Whales​Black Whales play the West Seattle Easy Street tonight in preparation for their EP release show at the Tractor Tavern on Friday. That starts at 5 p.m. and is all ages. Grand Archives also have an in-store to celebrate the release of their sophomore record, Keep in Mind Frankenste ... More >>

REVERB Lineup: New York Fashion Academy

Champagne Champagne, THEESatisfaction, Spaceman, and more.

Ghostface Killah

Champagne Champagne, THEESatisfaction, Spaceman, and more.

Dirty Projectors

Champagne Champagne, THEESatisfaction, Spaceman, and more.

The Corner

Champagne Champagne, THEESatisfaction, Spaceman, and more.

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

Champagne Champagne, THEESatisfaction, Spaceman, and more.

Today's Issue: Seattle Hip-Hop Still Almost Famous

Rabid Child ImagesSpaceman at Go! Machine at The Croc in December, 2009.​This week's music section (you know, the one in print and over here) opens with a piece from Kevin Capp that asks "What's it going to take for the city's hip-hop scene to expand beyond the city limits?" JZ has already ch ... More >>

Spaceman

Rabid Child ImagesSpaceman at Go! Machine at The Croc in December, 2009.​This week's music section (you know, the one in print and over here) opens with a piece from Kevin Capp that asks "What's it going to take for the city's hip-hop scene to expand beyond the city limits?" JZ has already ch ... More >>

Swollen Members

Rabid Child ImagesSpaceman at Go! Machine at The Croc in December, 2009.​This week's music section (you know, the one in print and over here) opens with a piece from Kevin Capp that asks "What's it going to take for the city's hip-hop scene to expand beyond the city limits?" JZ has already ch ... More >>

On Paper Wings

Rabid Child ImagesSpaceman at Go! Machine at The Croc in December, 2009.​This week's music section (you know, the one in print and over here) opens with a piece from Kevin Capp that asks "What's it going to take for the city's hip-hop scene to expand beyond the city limits?" JZ has already ch ... More >>

Dieselboy

Rabid Child ImagesSpaceman at Go! Machine at The Croc in December, 2009.​This week's music section (you know, the one in print and over here) opens with a piece from Kevin Capp that asks "What's it going to take for the city's hip-hop scene to expand beyond the city limits?" JZ has already ch ... More >>

Mark Farina

Rabid Child ImagesSpaceman at Go! Machine at The Croc in December, 2009.​This week's music section (you know, the one in print and over here) opens with a piece from Kevin Capp that asks "What's it going to take for the city's hip-hop scene to expand beyond the city limits?" JZ has already ch ... More >>

Gabriel Teodros

Rabid Child ImagesSpaceman at Go! Machine at The Croc in December, 2009.​This week's music section (you know, the one in print and over here) opens with a piece from Kevin Capp that asks "What's it going to take for the city's hip-hop scene to expand beyond the city limits?" JZ has already ch ... More >>

SXSW Send-Off Party

Rabid Child ImagesSpaceman at Go! Machine at The Croc in December, 2009.​This week's music section (you know, the one in print and over here) opens with a piece from Kevin Capp that asks "What's it going to take for the city's hip-hop scene to expand beyond the city limits?" JZ has already ch ... More >>

Tonight: Gabriel Teodros at Chop Suey

Canh Nguyen​Gabriel Teodros, with Jennifer Johns, Daisy Chain, DJ WD4D. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8000. 8 p.m. $10. Released last year, Gabriel Teodros' GT's Ethiopium: A Jitter Generation Mixtape is that rarest of albums in the annals of so-called "conscious rap": a socio-political ... More >>

Tonight: Balkan Beat Box at Showbox at the Market

​Balkan Beat Box, with The Bad Things. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 8 p.m. $20. Balkan Beat Box often sounds like a cross between Matisyahu and a whacked-out DJ vibing in a black site somewhere in the Middle East. This is a good thing. The two New York-by-way-of-Israel mus ... More >>

Balkan Beat Box

​Balkan Beat Box, with The Bad Things. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 8 p.m. $20. Balkan Beat Box often sounds like a cross between Matisyahu and a whacked-out DJ vibing in a black site somewhere in the Middle East. This is a good thing. The two New York-by-way-of-Israel mus ... More >>

RA Scion

​Balkan Beat Box, with The Bad Things. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 8 p.m. $20. Balkan Beat Box often sounds like a cross between Matisyahu and a whacked-out DJ vibing in a black site somewhere in the Middle East. This is a good thing. The two New York-by-way-of-Israel mus ... More >>

LMNO

​Balkan Beat Box, with The Bad Things. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 8 p.m. $20. Balkan Beat Box often sounds like a cross between Matisyahu and a whacked-out DJ vibing in a black site somewhere in the Middle East. This is a good thing. The two New York-by-way-of-Israel mus ... More >>

Tonight: LMNO at Chop Suey

​LMNO, with Kev Brown, JFK, All Flags Burn. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8000. 8 p.m. $10. To celebrate the Year of Our Lord 2010, Long Beach lyricist LMNO decided to release 10 albums. You may be forgiven your trespasses for thinking of this project as The Decalogue, as LMNO, who isn' ... More >>

Theoretics

​LMNO, with Kev Brown, JFK, All Flags Burn. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8000. 8 p.m. $10. To celebrate the Year of Our Lord 2010, Long Beach lyricist LMNO decided to release 10 albums. You may be forgiven your trespasses for thinking of this project as The Decalogue, as LMNO, who isn' ... More >>

Tonight: Theoretics @ The Triple Door, The Box Elders @ The Funhouse

​Theoretics, with Gravity. Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333. 7:30 p.m. $9. All ages. Theoretics is exactly what the Seattle hip-hop scene needs--what any scene looking to maintain an edge needs, really--at the moment: a funky fresh infusion of live instrumentation and Jurassic 5-style lyri ... More >>

Victor Shade

​Theoretics, with Gravity. Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333. 7:30 p.m. $9. All ages. Theoretics is exactly what the Seattle hip-hop scene needs--what any scene looking to maintain an edge needs, really--at the moment: a funky fresh infusion of live instrumentation and Jurassic 5-style lyri ... More >>

Theoretics' Video for "Higher" Gives Seattle Band-Backed Hip-Hop a Reintroduction

Last May, Kevin Capp had some pretty substantial things to say about local seven-piece hip-hop outfit Theoretics in the Weekly's Short List: Theoretics is exactly what the Seattle hip-hop scene needs--what any scene looking to maintain an edge needs, really--at the moment: a funky-fresh infusion of ... More >>