Spoon’s “Transference” is my favorite rock album of 2010 so far, so it goes without saying that I’m stoked to be checking out the first half of the band’s two-night stand in Seattle in a few hours at the Moore Theatre.
And finally I’ve had time to post a few clips from my interview with bassist Rob Pope who last month talked about …
… living in Seattle and the Austin-bred band’s Northwest ties.
Here’s Olympia’s Brotherhood of the Black Squirrel from Friday night at the new Stonegate Pizza on South Tacoma Way.
Motley Crue did it. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters did it. And now it’s the Pixies’ turn to take one of their iconic albums on tour; their 1989 classic “Doolittle” to be more specific, with bassist Kim Deal blurting out updates throughout their set at the Paramount Theatre Thursday night, the first half of a two-night stand.
“The beer’s almost gone out of the refrigerator. All the cool people have gone home,” she joked as the Pixies rock party neared its finale.
Hit the “more” button to check out the set list, find details for tonight’s show here and check back later for a few scenes from the show.
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Saturday (Nov. 14) will be your last chance to catch local singer-songwriter Ben Union in concert for a while as he shares a bill with Doxology and Roman Holiday at Jazzbones.
Ben will debut his band’s latest lineup, which includes little bro’ Jared Mira on drums, Israel Hickey on guitar and Josh Stull on bass. And he’ll play material from the debut record he’s working on at Pacific Studios, maybe even this cut, which is called “Paul Sartre.”
Reunited alt-rock band Pavement, a staple of college radio throughout the 1990s, will perform at the Gorge Amphitheatre’s Sasquatch! festival in 2010, organizers announced Friday.
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Last night, Top of Tacoma celebrated two years of being McKinley Hill’s hippest destination. And the Top had a little help from a couple of T-town’s hottest bands, Revengers and the F-ing Eagles. Apologies in advance for the dark footage, but these clips will still give you an idea of what went down if you missed it.
You know, I debated posting a clip of Tacoma’s the Color of East that I shot earlier this month at the New Frontier Lounge. I’m learning that while the Flip Ultra HD has decent picture quality, it doesn’t exactly have the greatest microphone for bootleggin’.
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The other day I added a couple of tracks from Post Stardom Depression front man Jeff Angell’s newest band, The Missionary Position, to the South Sound Mix Tape. Then I took Angell up on his invite to check his trio out at Tacoma rock club Station 56 on Sunday.
TMS was kind of a square peg on an XIL records bill topped by the massively aggro Church of Hate. But Angell and company held their own, delivering swaggering, bluesy versions of several cuts from their “Diamonds in a Dead Sky” album, sans the drum loops and horns you’ll hear on the CD (though Angell says they perform the songs that way, too, depending on the venue.)
But enough jibba jabba. My favorite cut was called “Why Me? Why Now?”
Today, a rep from Brown-Foreman e-mailed the skinny on a free Hold Steady show coming up in Seattle. The Minnesota-bred band will headline Southern Comfort presents Undercover on Oct. 22 at an undisclosed Seattle location.
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Comedian David Cross: “You know what I hate worse than a pedophile? A racist pedophile. That’s just ignorant!” Cross, one of Sunday’s hottest attractions at Bumbershoot, read just enough from his new book “I Drink for a Reason” to qualify for the literary stage at Bagley Wright Theatre, but mostly did standup with a little help from his friends. Here he and “Daily Show” correspondent Wyatt Cenac rock the “Bumberkeys.” Uh, you had to be there.
Comedians Doug Benson and Maria Bamford also delivered hilarious sets, with Benson notably localizing a joke about a street preacher demanding to know if he was going to Hell. “No, but it’s on the way if you need a lift,” he said. “We are going to Puyallup.” (Photo by Ernest Jasmin)
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