20 Questions with Beat Connection, MFNW 2013
Kelsey played a round of 20 questions from Seattle’s Beat Connection before their Saturday MusicFest NW performance at Branx. Continue reading 20 Questions with Beat Connection, MFNW 2013
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The Little Big Show Packs a Tuneful, Fundraising Punch
The five New-York-by-way-of-New-Jersey rockers shuffled quietly onto the stage and picked up their instruments like they’d just set them down a couple of hours earlier. The audibly excited crowd swayed back and forth to their melodic, dreamy, and often swirly songs mostly from Days. Between-song banter not being their forte, guitarist and singer Martin Courtney’s dashing backstage for a forgotten capo provided the most entertaining interlude. Continue reading The Little Big Show Packs a Tuneful, Fundraising Punch
We Are Augustines Charm The Triple Door Before Tonight’s Neptune Set
It takes an extra-talented group of musicians to earn the title of John in the Morning’s Favorite Band in the World, but We Are Augustines have done so twice. Continue reading We Are Augustines Charm The Triple Door Before Tonight’s Neptune Set
We Were Promised Jetpacks Packs ’em in for KEXP
Yesterday, KEXP graciously let me to pretend to be a VIP and attend a private performance by We Were Promised Jetpacks, at the Triple Door downtown. You can tune in to the results today at 11 a.m., or try their concert tonight at Neumo’s. Of all the donor benefits I know, KEXP’s VIP Club Concerts seem like the most aimed at giving the people what they want: more music, surrounded by people who also love music. Continue reading We Were Promised Jetpacks Packs ’em in for KEXP
Reykjavik Calling @ Neumo’s (Photo Gallery)
Maybe the most successful cross-cultural meeting of the night was between Grand Hallway’s Tomo Nakayama and the Faroe Islands’ Gudrid Hansdottir–they seemed really to have clicked, temperamentally. Hansdottir sang a song about fog; Grand Hallway has an album called Winter Creatures.
David Bazan and Snorri Helgason also seemed to get along famously, but Bazan seemed to determined to play what he called “bummer” songs, and it was a mood hard to square with a Friday night with sidewalks filled with people in costume. Continue reading Reykjavik Calling @ Neumo’s (Photo Gallery)
The Head and the Heart Gets Some More SXSW Love
This time the accolades for the local pop troupe come from Entertainment Weekly, who yesterday named them one of the ten best new bands at South By Southwest this year. Says Leah Greenblatt, “These new Sub Pop signees felt like laying back in a patch of soft green grass (not beer-vomit-soaked dirt). The easy-like-Sunday-morning side of me that very much enjoys a straightforward, expertly-crafted folk-rock hook got what she wanted with TH&TH; of almost every new band I saw at the festival, these guys seemed the most ready for their ‘Tonight’s Saturday Night Live musical guest is…’ closeup.” Continue reading The Head and the Heart Gets Some More SXSW Love