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February 8, 2012
How Clubs Prepare For Bands -- And Their Fans -- Behind the Bar
The following text -- and the above illo, which you can click to see larger -- are featured in this week's paper, which is completely dedicated to the drink. Enjoy responsibly. By Hannah Levin When I was attending every metal show that blew through the Tacoma Dome in my youth, outfit select ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2011
Tres Mts Debuts Their Hard, Soulful Grooves at Inaugural Gig, Last Night at the Showbox
Dave LakeTres Mts. Wednesday, March 16 Showbox at the Market It might seem bold to name your band Three Mountains. Unless of course you're a hard-rock supergroup that includes members of Pearl Jam, King's X, and the Fastbacks, in which case it makes perfect sense. It also makes perfect sense ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2011
This Week in Loaded: Three New Songs, One New Movie, and Plenty of Flirting With Lemmy, ZZ Top, and Sean Kinney
Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His sports column on ESPN.com runs every Wednesday.Last week, we touched on some heavy issues concerning life, loss, and the general hurdles that life puts in front of all of us. Speaking for myself, it was good to get it out of my system. ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2010
The Top 5 Grossest Holiday Foods
Which one got better grades at Yale?The holidays are upon us, but unless your uncle is Grant Achatz, you probably won't be eating anything original. Holiday food is staid and traditional and, in most cases, terrible, because it's highly unlikely your grandma was a semifinalist on Top Chef. S ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2010
Eliminator Was ZZ Top's Best Album.
Doing the Tube Snake BoogieI'm not going to bore you by waxing sentimental over the undeniable mastery of early ZZ Top, or by singing the praises of their first seven records. Each one is a flawed masterpiece, some more flaw than masterpiece, which you can discover in your own time the same ... More >>
Music
September 8, 2010
Rocket Queen: Casino Boogie
Why rockers of all stripes are taking a second look at the paychecks past the craps table.
Blogs
August 30, 2010
Billy Gibbons and the Fine Art of Handbag Embellishment (Best Autograph, Ever)
I had the unexpected pleasure of ending up backstage at the ZZ Top concert at Snoqualmie Casino last night. Co-band leaders Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons sipped champagne and mingled with well-wishers (including Seattle-based filmmaker Jamie Chamberlin, who recently finished a documentary on the band ... More >>
Blogs
August 29, 2010
Tonight: Vampire Weekend Beach House Dum Dum Girls at Marymoor, D. Black at Neumos, ZZ Top at the Snoqualmie Casino
Vampire Weekend, with Beach House, Dum Dum Girls. Marymoor Park, 6046 W. Lake Sammamish Pkwy. N.E., Redmond, 205-3661. 6 p.m. $47.50. All ages. At first glance, it might seem like Beach House and the Dum Dum Girls are the biggest beneficiaries in this lineup - opening a summer tour for arguab ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
ZZ Top
Vampire Weekend, with Beach House, Dum Dum Girls. Marymoor Park, 6046 W. Lake Sammamish Pkwy. N.E., Redmond, 205-3661. 6 p.m. $47.50. All ages. At first glance, it might seem like Beach House and the Dum Dum Girls are the biggest beneficiaries in this lineup - opening a summer tour for arguab ... More >>
Music
August 25, 2010
The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows
Vampire Weekend, with Beach House, Dum Dum Girls. Marymoor Park, 6046 W. Lake Sammamish Pkwy. N.E., Redmond, 205-3661. 6 p.m. $47.50. All ages. At first glance, it might seem like Beach House and the Dum Dum Girls are the biggest beneficiaries in this lineup - opening a summer tour for arguab ... More >>
Music
August 18, 2010
An Incomplete History: The Snoqualmie Casino Protests
How Meat Loaf brokered peace between Snoqualmie Casino and its neighbors.
Blogs
June 29, 2010
Eric Clapton Crossroads 2010 HD Movie To Be Shown at Bainbridge 5 on July 27
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival started in Dallas in 2004 featuring the likes of Carlos Santana, Joe Walsh, Jimmy Vaughn, and Bo Diddley. The second Festival in Chicago in 2007 sold out in 22 minutes. Now the 2010 Festival -- which happened on June 26 at Chicago's Toyota Park and also so ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2010
KJR Caps Off an Epic Memorial Day Karaoke Bender at the Tug
"Sweet Caroline" might be Diamond's driver, but he's got plenty of clubs in his bag.I covered every base of my karaoke life this past Memorial Day weekend. I sang in my neighborhood (Greenwood) on Friday, with Filipinos Saturday afternoon, my regular spot (Tarasco) Saturday night and, on Sund ... More >>
Blogs
May 26, 2010
KJR Blacks Out In Denver, But Luckily His Cell Phone Doesn't
This is Scott's brain on Coors and Akvavit.Check Colorado off the list of states where I've sung karaoke. I'm now up to 11 (Washington, California, Nevada, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico, Massachusetts, Maryland, and New York). I spent last weekend with my oldest and dearest friend, Scott, ... More >>
Music
April 28, 2010
Rocket Queen: Deep in the Heart of Ballard
Musicians pay tribute to a state they love.
Blogs
April 2, 2010
A.M. Music News: Green Day, Wolf Parade, Violent Femmes, and Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me: ZZ Top!
-- NPR: ZZ Top's gonna play "Not My Job" on NPR's Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me! this weekend. -- Pitchfork: Wolf Parade's playing the Showbox on July 27. -- MyFoxDetroit: Fences at the Detroit ballpark sponsored by Jack White have been vandalized. That's just some tame shit. -- Spinner: Wo ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2010
Hey Marseilles, The Long Winters, Grand Archives Featured On Starbucks' New Sweetheart Compilation
Those Long Winters cuts just keep dripping out. John Roderick tackles ZZ Top's "Give Me All Your Lovin'" on the new Starbucks compilation, Sweethearts, out today via iTunes, just in time for the Valentine's season. Hard copies will be available in stores with your hard scones on Jan. 26. Als ... More >>
Music
December 2, 2009
Q&A: Jay Farrar on Kerouac, Big Sur
Seriously.
Blogs
November 30, 2009
Q&A: Jay Farrar Talks Kerouac, ZZ Top, and Solitude
Jay Farrar, center, plays Neumos with Son Volt at Neumos on Friday, December 4.Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar has been reading Jack Kerouac since he was a teenager. But writing the music and lyrics for an album/soundtrack to One Fast Move Or I'm Gone, a documentary about Kerouac's Big Sur, prov ... More >>
Music
November 11, 2009
Rocket Queen: Speak No Evil
“Instru-metal” comes to Capitol Hill, and ZZ Top screens in West Seattle.
Blogs
September 16, 2009
What I'm Listening To...
I finally managed to eject The Best of ZZ Top from my car's tape deck, only to have it replaced by the Xanadu soundtrack. My car's technical limitations may render me incapable of representing much beyond my undying love for Billy Gibbons, Jeff Lynne, and especially Olivia Newton-John, but th ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2009
My Records of the 1970s
Duff McKagan writes for Reverb every Monday and Thursday.Being the youngest of eight kids exposed me to a LOT of music that my older brothers and sisters were listening to at any given point during my youth. Some of my earliest memories are of leafing through album covers like the Beatles' Sg ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2009
I've Been Listening to Iggy, Sly, and ZZ Top
Classy ZZ Top. In addition to his regular column every Thursday, Duff McKagan will write about what's circulating through his iPod every Monday.ZZ Top, "Jesus Just Left Chicago": Any of y'all wanna get schooled on some good old kick ass shuffle blues and hear what slowhand rock guitar sounds ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2009
ZZ Top Cancels Seattle, But Soldiers on Elsewhere
As I feared, ZZ Top has officially had to cancel their Seattle date. Industrious fellows that they are, however, they've rescheduled dates down the rest of the west coast and back to the east, dubbing the impromptu itinerary revisions the "Necessity is a Mother Tour." Sadly, it was just too d ... More >>
Blogs
August 6, 2009
My iPod: From Prince to Judas Priest
Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb.I had the chance to take part in a Camp Freddy gig down in L.A. last weekend at the House of Blues. Camp Freddy is a sort of rock-and-roll collective that gets together once in a while to play some gig or another (from fundraisers to straigh ... More >>
Blogs
July 31, 2009
Live Music Roundup: Friday, July 31
Firstly, Blitzen Trapper and Throw Me the Statue are playing a free show at the Seattle Center (at the Mural Amphitheater), which starts at 6 p.m. I suggest bringing a picnic. And don't worry -- I know it's cloudy now, but that's supposed to burn off this afternoon. The Black Hollies, Boss ... More >>
Calendar
July 29, 2009
Strutzfest
Friday, July 31 and Saturday, August 1
Blogs
July 16, 2009
First Call: Gainsbourg
A weekly food-blog feature in which we walk into a bar unannounced and ask the bartender to make us his or her favorite drink. Watering hole: Gainsbourg, Ozzie's Restaurant and Lounge, 8550 Greenwood AVe. N., 781-2224. GREENWOOD Barkeep: Clarita Hinojosa Hometown: Austin, Texas Getting Seattl ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2009
We Are the Road Crew
Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. Follow him on Twitter @Duff64.Out on the road and touring as a rock band, artists wholeheartedly rely on their crews. The term "roadie" is thought of as an archaic and demeaning term, replaced now with guitar tech, drum tech, sound engineer, produ ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2009
A Finnish Beginning to Summer
Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. Follow him on Twitter @Duff64.Late spring in Europe and the U.K. means only one thing for the music lover over here: FESTIVAL SEASON! Of course, these festivals are good for both the fans AND the bands that play in front of them, as festivals will ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2009
Live Music Roundup: Saturday, May 9
In addition to the Bassnectar show at Showbox at the Market (pictured to the left, and described after the jump) and the Abstract Rude show tonight at Nectar (you can read Gabriel Teodros' interview with him), all this is happening tonight: Bassnectar, Gift of Gab, Sidecar Tommy at Showbox at the M ... More >>
Calendar
April 29, 2009
Baby Gramps
Saturday, May 9
Blogs
February 25, 2009
Local Music to Listen to Now (and Again...and Again...)
Wild Orchid Children (photo by Haley Young Photography) I have been obsessed with our local music scene ever since I managed to get the hell out of Tacoma (no slight on T-Town, but a girl's gotta grow), landing fortuitously at UW in September of 1991. While I'm grateful and proud that I manage ... More >>
Calendar
August 13, 2008
Redbone, Janice Marie Johnson, Indigenous
Saturday, August 16
Blogs
April 7, 2008
Summer Concerts for AARP Members
Saturday, August 16
Blogs
February 8, 2008
The Weekend Preview
Saturday, August 16
Calendar
February 6, 2008
Lovers Rock Roots Reggae
Sunday, February 10
Music
May 31, 2006
Panda and Angel at the Croc
Highlights and otherwise from this week's music calendar.
Music
May 17, 2006
With the Power of Soul
The unsung genius of Bobby 'Blue' Bland.
Diversions
February 8, 2006
Cupid's Twisted Arrow
True tales of bizarre hookups prove that love is everywhere.
Music
September 21, 2005
Sept. 21-27, 2005
True tales of bizarre hookups prove that love is everywhere.
Music
April 27, 2005
The Songs Don't All Sound the Same
Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with the Supersuckers.
Music
October 20, 2004
Outta Control
Tearing it up with cock-rock revivalists Murdock.
Arts
September 15, 2004
Velocity Fall Kickoff Showcase
Tearing it up with cock-rock revivalists Murdock.
Music
September 15, 2004
Sept. 15-21, 2004
Tearing it up with cock-rock revivalists Murdock.
Music
December 3, 2003
Music Previews
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News
June 27, 2001
"If that isn't every gay man's masturbation fantasy, a little boy in a pink tutu."
Tearing it up with cock-rock revivalists Murdock.
Arts
March 22, 2000
Final Fringe
In which the exhausted but exhilarated critic praises punctuality and discourages mugging.
Food
November 10, 1999
Manray
In which the exhausted but exhilarated critic praises punctuality and discourages mugging.
News
July 1, 1998
Drill ride
Bruce Willis plays Bruce Willis in 'Armageddon,' and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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