Paige Richmond

Bad Religion

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

From Bad Religion to Built to Spill.

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

From Bad Religion to Built to Spill.

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

From Bad Religion to Built to Spill.

The Moondoggies

From Bad Religion to Built to Spill.

Tonight's a Good Night to Hit the High Dive: Cataldo The Red River

​Eric Anderson of Cataldo is going to be headlining the High Dive tonight; Paige Richmond calls his music "downright infectious" and "totally lovable." I'm personally more interested in the openers though -- out of Long Beach, California, the folk-pop outfit (with eight members at last count) ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

​Eric Anderson of Cataldo is going to be headlining the High Dive tonight; Paige Richmond calls his music "downright infectious" and "totally lovable." I'm personally more interested in the openers though -- out of Long Beach, California, the folk-pop outfit (with eight members at last count) ... More >>

Can You Defend Your Dirty Projectors Love? Win a Pair of Tickets to Their Show on Thursday Night Expanded Edition of Bitte Orca

Nina Mouritzen​Our astute Paige Richmond recently posited: Is there any band more polarizing in the current indie rock canon than Dirty Projectors? Is it even possible to be simply indifferent to a band that once made a concept album about Don Henley and another album that recreated Black Flag ... More >>

Five Things I Learned About Costumes, Lounging, Stage Banter, and Cover Songs at Bumbershoot 2010

Paige RichmondBest Costume of Bumbershoot: Victor Shade's green spandex and yellow cape.​1. Ryan Abeo looks good in tights. While performing as Victor Shade on Monday afternoon, Abeo (also known as RA Scion of Common Market) donned green spandex, gold underwear, and a yellow cape. (Doesn't hu ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

Paige RichmondBest Costume of Bumbershoot: Victor Shade's green spandex and yellow cape.​1. Ryan Abeo looks good in tights. While performing as Victor Shade on Monday afternoon, Abeo (also known as RA Scion of Common Market) donned green spandex, gold underwear, and a yellow cape. (Doesn't hu ... More >>

Helsing Junction Sleepver

Paige RichmondBest Costume of Bumbershoot: Victor Shade's green spandex and yellow cape.​1. Ryan Abeo looks good in tights. While performing as Victor Shade on Monday afternoon, Abeo (also known as RA Scion of Common Market) donned green spandex, gold underwear, and a yellow cape. (Doesn't hu ... More >>

Doe Bay Fest

Paige RichmondBest Costume of Bumbershoot: Victor Shade's green spandex and yellow cape.​1. Ryan Abeo looks good in tights. While performing as Victor Shade on Monday afternoon, Abeo (also known as RA Scion of Common Market) donned green spandex, gold underwear, and a yellow cape. (Doesn't hu ... More >>

Tonight: Yelawolf at Nectar, Friday Mile's Last Show Ever, The Heels at the Blue Moon

​Yelawolf, with Project Lionheart, Cloud Nice, DJ Nphared. Nectar, 412 N. 36th St., 632-2020. 9 p.m. $8. There's a good chance you're scared of Yelawolf. And if your first introduction to the guy was his violent and gritty video for "Pop The Trunk," I can't say I blame you. Hailing from Gadsde ... More >>

Tonight: The Coup at Neumos, Monotonix at the High Dive

​The Coup, with SOL, Canary Sing, DJ Funkscribe. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $13. There's definitely no shortage of politicized hip-hop in Seattle; in fact, our city is a downright respectable producer and consumer in that aspect. But the Oakland-based duo of Raymond "Boots" Rile ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

​The Coup, with SOL, Canary Sing, DJ Funkscribe. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $13. There's definitely no shortage of politicized hip-hop in Seattle; in fact, our city is a downright respectable producer and consumer in that aspect. But the Oakland-based duo of Raymond "Boots" Rile ... More >>

Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands

​The Coup, with SOL, Canary Sing, DJ Funkscribe. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $13. There's definitely no shortage of politicized hip-hop in Seattle; in fact, our city is a downright respectable producer and consumer in that aspect. But the Oakland-based duo of Raymond "Boots" Rile ... More >>

BOAT

​The Coup, with SOL, Canary Sing, DJ Funkscribe. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $13. There's definitely no shortage of politicized hip-hop in Seattle; in fact, our city is a downright respectable producer and consumer in that aspect. But the Oakland-based duo of Raymond "Boots" Rile ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

​The Coup, with SOL, Canary Sing, DJ Funkscribe. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $13. There's definitely no shortage of politicized hip-hop in Seattle; in fact, our city is a downright respectable producer and consumer in that aspect. But the Oakland-based duo of Raymond "Boots" Rile ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

​The Coup, with SOL, Canary Sing, DJ Funkscribe. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $13. There's definitely no shortage of politicized hip-hop in Seattle; in fact, our city is a downright respectable producer and consumer in that aspect. But the Oakland-based duo of Raymond "Boots" Rile ... More >>

Bane

​The Coup, with SOL, Canary Sing, DJ Funkscribe. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $13. There's definitely no shortage of politicized hip-hop in Seattle; in fact, our city is a downright respectable producer and consumer in that aspect. But the Oakland-based duo of Raymond "Boots" Rile ... More >>

Tonight: Music Works Jazz Orchestra & Lynnwood High School Jazz Bands @ the Triple Door

​Music Works Jazz Orchestera, with Lynnwood High School Jazz Bands. Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333. 7:30 p.m. $15 adults/$12 students. Could jazz bands be the next glee clubs? Could classically-trained teenage guitarists, horn players, and percussionists soon have a primetime show that d ... More >>

The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

​Music Works Jazz Orchestera, with Lynnwood High School Jazz Bands. Triple Door, 216 Union St., 838-4333. 7:30 p.m. $15 adults/$12 students. Could jazz bands be the next glee clubs? Could classically-trained teenage guitarists, horn players, and percussionists soon have a primetime show that d ... More >>

Today and Tonight: Kids and Animals at Hard Rock, And The Wiremen at the Comet

Rain Peasley​Kids and Animals. Hard Rock Cafe, 116 Pike St., 204-2233. 2 p.m. $5. All ages. If there's a poster-band for the all ages scene in Seattle, Kids & Animals is it. They have a Modest Mouse-meets-Okkervil River sound and have already self-released an album last year that found heavy r ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

Rain Peasley​Kids and Animals. Hard Rock Cafe, 116 Pike St., 204-2233. 2 p.m. $5. All ages. If there's a poster-band for the all ages scene in Seattle, Kids & Animals is it. They have a Modest Mouse-meets-Okkervil River sound and have already self-released an album last year that found heavy r ... More >>

Kids and Animals

Rain Peasley​Kids and Animals. Hard Rock Cafe, 116 Pike St., 204-2233. 2 p.m. $5. All ages. If there's a poster-band for the all ages scene in Seattle, Kids & Animals is it. They have a Modest Mouse-meets-Okkervil River sound and have already self-released an album last year that found heavy r ... More >>

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

Rain Peasley​Kids and Animals. Hard Rock Cafe, 116 Pike St., 204-2233. 2 p.m. $5. All ages. If there's a poster-band for the all ages scene in Seattle, Kids & Animals is it. They have a Modest Mouse-meets-Okkervil River sound and have already self-released an album last year that found heavy r ... More >>

Tonight: Sea Fever at Neumos, Eighteen Individual Eyes at the Crocodile

Chona Kasinger​Sea Fever, with The Fragrance, Valhalla Hill. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $7. The local indie-pop outfit Sea Fever is a young band, but they've already endured enough rock-and-roll style drama to last them a few years. Formed at SPU by vocalist/guitarist Andrew Zoo ... More >>

Eighteen Individual Eyes

Chona Kasinger​Sea Fever, with The Fragrance, Valhalla Hill. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $7. The local indie-pop outfit Sea Fever is a young band, but they've already endured enough rock-and-roll style drama to last them a few years. Formed at SPU by vocalist/guitarist Andrew Zoo ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

Chona Kasinger​Sea Fever, with The Fragrance, Valhalla Hill. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $7. The local indie-pop outfit Sea Fever is a young band, but they've already endured enough rock-and-roll style drama to last them a few years. Formed at SPU by vocalist/guitarist Andrew Zoo ... More >>

Tonight: Blue Scholars Kick Off Three-Night Stint at the Showbox, The Slackers at El Corazon

​Blue Scholars, with Common Market, Gordon Voidwell, Bambu, DJ Phatrick, DV One. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 8 p.m. $16. All ages. Feeling like a scaled-down version of "The Program" - the five-night hip-hop showcase orchestrated by the Blue Scholars in 2007 - the brillia ... More >>

The Slackers

​Blue Scholars, with Common Market, Gordon Voidwell, Bambu, DJ Phatrick, DV One. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151. 8 p.m. $16. All ages. Feeling like a scaled-down version of "The Program" - the five-night hip-hop showcase orchestrated by the Blue Scholars in 2007 - the brillia ... More >>

Tonight: The Davanos, Wild Orchid Children, The Femurs

Chris Kornelis​The Davanos. Little Red Hen, 7115 Woodlawn Ave. N.E., 522-1168. 9 p.m. $3. The Davanos are local legends--if you live in Lake City, that is. Every Wednesday, the three-piece cover band--featuring Dusty 45 Jerry Battista on guitar, Fred "Right On" Holzman on drums, and a rotating ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

Chris Kornelis​The Davanos. Little Red Hen, 7115 Woodlawn Ave. N.E., 522-1168. 9 p.m. $3. The Davanos are local legends--if you live in Lake City, that is. Every Wednesday, the three-piece cover band--featuring Dusty 45 Jerry Battista on guitar, Fred "Right On" Holzman on drums, and a rotating ... More >>

Our Favorite Local Releases of 2009

From Bazan to Visqueen, Seattle had almost as many standout releases this year as Tiger Woods had mistresses.

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

From Bazan to Visqueen, Seattle had almost as many standout releases this year as Tiger Woods had mistresses.

Blitzen Trapper

From Bazan to Visqueen, Seattle had almost as many standout releases this year as Tiger Woods had mistresses.

CD Reviews: New Releases from Grayskul and Grand Archives

From Bazan to Visqueen, Seattle had almost as many standout releases this year as Tiger Woods had mistresses.

Telegraph Canyon

From Bazan to Visqueen, Seattle had almost as many standout releases this year as Tiger Woods had mistresses.

Bumbershoot: Monday’s Recommended Shows

From Bazan to Visqueen, Seattle had almost as many standout releases this year as Tiger Woods had mistresses.

Live Music Roundup: Wednesday, September 2

​Bettye LaVette performs again tonight, but there's this show tonight, too: Canon Canyon, Themes, James Apollo at the Sunset, 9 p.m., $6 The angst that permeates Canon Canyon's music--that intense feeling of combined confusion and curiosity on songs like "Travelin' Souls"--is unapologetic. L ... More >>

The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

​Bettye LaVette performs again tonight, but there's this show tonight, too: Canon Canyon, Themes, James Apollo at the Sunset, 9 p.m., $6 The angst that permeates Canon Canyon's music--that intense feeling of combined confusion and curiosity on songs like "Travelin' Souls"--is unapologetic. L ... More >>

The Short List

​Bettye LaVette performs again tonight, but there's this show tonight, too: Canon Canyon, Themes, James Apollo at the Sunset, 9 p.m., $6 The angst that permeates Canon Canyon's music--that intense feeling of combined confusion and curiosity on songs like "Travelin' Souls"--is unapologetic. L ... More >>

The Short List: This Week’s Recommended Shows

​Bettye LaVette performs again tonight, but there's this show tonight, too: Canon Canyon, Themes, James Apollo at the Sunset, 9 p.m., $6 The angst that permeates Canon Canyon's music--that intense feeling of combined confusion and curiosity on songs like "Travelin' Souls"--is unapologetic. L ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

​Bettye LaVette performs again tonight, but there's this show tonight, too: Canon Canyon, Themes, James Apollo at the Sunset, 9 p.m., $6 The angst that permeates Canon Canyon's music--that intense feeling of combined confusion and curiosity on songs like "Travelin' Souls"--is unapologetic. L ... More >>

Five Weekend Shows for $5 and Under

Not to beat the dead horse that is the recession, but uh, we all know times are tough. And even if they weren't, we understand that not everyone wants to drop $20 on a show, because neither do we. Why do you think we got into this business? Therefore, we're starting a new weekend feature in addition ... More >>

CD Reviews: New Music From Weinland, Skeletons With Flesh on Them

Not to beat the dead horse that is the recession, but uh, we all know times are tough. And even if they weren't, we understand that not everyone wants to drop $20 on a show, because neither do we. Why do you think we got into this business? Therefore, we're starting a new weekend feature in addition ... More >>

Live Music Round Up: Friday, April 17

Firstly, there are all of these KEXP-related events happening on Capitol Hill both during the day and tonight. I personally would like to check out the free shows at Caffe Vita starting at 7:30 a.m.with Beads (Snow, also of the band the Blakes, is pictured.) Night shows include a badass line-up at t ... More >>

The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

Firstly, there are all of these KEXP-related events happening on Capitol Hill both during the day and tonight. I personally would like to check out the free shows at Caffe Vita starting at 7:30 a.m.with Beads (Snow, also of the band the Blakes, is pictured.) Night shows include a badass line-up at t ... More >>

Tonight's Show Suggestions

Weinland, courtesy Tarina Westlund. Normally I keep these photos little, but I love the old-timey shtick so much that I felt it deserved a little more attention. Mirah plays an all-ages show tonight at the Vera Project with Whitney Ballen; Mirah is about to release her latest album, (a)spera, a ple ... More >>

The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

Weinland, courtesy Tarina Westlund. Normally I keep these photos little, but I love the old-timey shtick so much that I felt it deserved a little more attention. Mirah plays an all-ages show tonight at the Vera Project with Whitney Ballen; Mirah is about to release her latest album, (a)spera, a ple ... More >>