live music
Tell Me About That Track: Bart Budwig’s “Goliath Got Stoned”
Singer/songwriter Bart Budwig recorded his new album ‘Paint by Numbers Jesus’ live at the nearly century-old OK Theatre in Enterprise, Oregon. There’s a warm, Americana rock tone throughout it—like Wilco meets Kris Kristofferson—lots of tongue-in-check biblical references and a few well-spun covers. Here, Budwig tells us more about the grooving single,”Goliath Got Stoned” and tour…
2017 Seattle Record Store Day Round Up
The 10th annual Record Store Day—the event that single handedly helped re-ignite the current vinyl obsession, while helping countless small, independent brick-and-mortar record stores remain open—kicks off today, April 22, at record shops around town with all kinds of in-store performances, special releases, sales and more. We’ve compiled a small list of some of the…
Peace, Love and Jazz: Ben Jaffe of Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Ben Jaffe, multi-instrumentalist bandleader of New Orleans’ esteemed Preservation Hall Jazz Band, is a master of conversation as he is of melody, weaving stories about the world-famous group and his father, Pres Hall co-founder and musician Allan Jaffe, from the past into the present with thoughtfulness and reflection. Speaking by phone from his New Orleans…
Band of the Week: The Maldives
With so much happening in Seattle’s bustling music scene these days, how do you even know where to start? Allow the highly trained culture curators of Seattlemag.com to help with Band of the Week. This week, catch up with Jason Dodson of much-loved Seattle folk rockers The Maldives; his band releases its latest album, the groove-…
Q&A with Sound Off! Champ Jason McCue
We catch up with Jason McCue, an inventive singer/songwriter and winner of the 2017 MoPop Sound Off! underage battle of the bands
Jason McCue isn’t your average musician. With just an acoustic guitar and his haunting voice, the 20-year-old took home first place at this year’s Sound Off!, a 21-and-under battle of the bands, hosted by Seattle’s Museum of Popular Culture. While it’s difficult to fit his inventive music into a genre, he calls it alternative folk….
Lucinda Williams Played Bowie, Achieved Catharsis, Last Night at the Neptune
Bowie might be dead, but Williams left a ticket at will call in his name, and it didn’t go unclaimed
When you’re 64 years old and have won a mantle’s worth of trophies for your trouble, I reckon you can do whatever you damn well please. For instance, you could purchase an old International Harvester from the wealthy owner of the local bait and tackle store and drive it two hours east to a snotty…