A conversation with Seattle
This past Saturday night, while you were getting your music/comedy/literature/art on at the Seattle Center, or your game on over … Continue reading Live Show Review: Soundgarden at the White River Amphitheater
It’s only a matter of time before Dave Grohl gets his own Comedy Central sketch show. Or directs a hilarious buddy comedy. Or, you know, rules the world. Here he displays his directing skill — and great sense of humor — with the guys of Soundgarden, who play along with awesome deadpan seriousness. It’s the video for “By Crooked Steps.” Continue reading Video: Dave Grohl’s Funny Take on Soundgarden’s “By Crooked Steps”
For those of us who discover new music in used vinyl bins rather than at the club or on the radio—KEXP, I really will tune in more often, and Jet City Stream, I love you when I do—all the year-end best-new-whatever lists go right over our heads. The pleading from hipper friends to listen to Alt-J and Head and the Heart (what, not new?), just reminders of how blissfully out of touch we are with today’s darlings. Continue reading Top 10 Reasons 2012 Rocked Like 1992
THEESatisfaction’s “awE naturalE” continues to shake my booty, activate my brain, and seduce my ears like nothing else I heard this year. Continue reading Picking the 12 Best Northwest Music Releases of 2012
Love Battery served as a reminder that nostalgia isn’t a bad thing…Especially if it batters your ears hard enough to require plugs Continue reading Love Battery, Truly, and Rusty Willoughby Fly a No-Toothless-Nostalgia Zone
When Soundgarden emerged from the wings in a dazzle of light, I had the lens cap off, the flash off, and the appropriate settings engaged. That in itself was amazing. How lively and primed—though yes, aged—original members Matt Cameron, Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, and Ben Shepherd looked from this close. And their sound? Ditto.
The band was as solid and on as it is on Live on I-5, this spring’s primer from its 1996 tour. Actually, the 2011 Soundgarden was better, tighter, as if the lengthy break only made the guys hungry for another stage. Continue reading Soundgarden at the Gorge: Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close, and Scarily Good
