Red feather in an electric blue fedora, bright magenta blazer: Details of style are not lost on Elvis Costello, who…
Head and the Heart closed out the night. Photo by Morgen Shuler At day two of Bumbershoot, the sun finally…
Rza of Wu-Tang Clan showin’ off. Photo by Morgen Schuler It was a wet one at the Seattle Center for…
Bumbershoot’s visual arts exhibits are distributed over two locations this year: Fisher Pavilion (with a separate tent outside); and what’s…
VeeShapeWednesday, Sept. 3 VeeShapePairing drone-enthused Earth with somber folkster King Dude is going to make this bill one of the…
Friday, August 29 The Brooklyn-based duo of Jessica Larrabee and Andy LaPlant, collectively known as She Keeps Bees, have been…
Avi Buffalo, At Best Cuckold (September 9, Sub Pop, avibuffalomusic.com) When Avi Buffalo emerged with its self-titled debut record in…
You might not know it from listening to the baroque synth-pop of his latest album, In Conflict, but Owen Pallett,…
Showcases like this make it hard to give a short answer to the question “What kind of music is it?”…
To hear Halie Loren sing is to glimpse the divine, and it is easy to see why this jazz vocalist…
Jack White comes out swinging as the crowd goes wild during his first song. Photo by Morgen Schuler Jack White…
Taking a tip from Bumbershoot’s Words & Ideas program, for this year’s 44th annual end-of-summer bash we ask, Why Bumbershoot?…
As we began to map out this year’s Bumbershoot coverage, one act kept coming up: Mac Demarco, a Canadian songwriter…
With ’90s nostalgia at an all-time high, the return of Luscious Jackson is aptly timed. Who better to rock the…
The legacy of the Replacements isn’t built on runaway success. It’s almost absurd to think that a band famous for…
Hip-hop fans like me have been crushing on the Wu-Tang Clan for more than 20 years now, ever since we…
Shaprece is one of our staff picks for Bumbershoot 2014. Photo by Cecilia Corsano-Leopizzi After 16 years away, Afghan Whigs…
Friday, August 22 Pacific Northwesterners take cycling seriously—a fact we recently proved with a piece about a Seattle-made “bike of…
VeeShapeWednesday, August 27 VeeShape“What Is This Heart?,” the latest from How To Dress Well, the stage name of singer Tom…
Ever-industrious Seattle music titan Marco Collins is behind Tag 2.0, a five-band music showcase he’s calling a “social experiment of…
