About Kara Tiernan
Kara was born and raised in West Seattle, is a diehard Washington State Alum and proud lefty. Kara has lived in Florence, Philadelphia and Portland but was magnetized back to home plate. Kara loves the outdoors, has participated in two Seattle Rock and Roll half marathon and is THRILLED spandex made a comeback. She is a passionate reader and blogger,our Music Madness guru, and writes the scoop on Seattle Real Estate for Seattleandrealestate.com. But mainly, she believes there is nothing better than a bottle of house red, acoustic music and loud laughter shared between friends and neighbors.
Get Your Groove on at Sunset Tavern!
Who: When a friend of mine told me her brother was in a band coming to town and suggested I check them out, I’ll admit I had my doubts. But after listening to these guys and knowing that the Sunset Tavern booked them with high regard, my ears perked up and my interest peeked – and yours should too! CHAPPO can only be described as a collaboration between four men determined to (more…)
Get Wide Eyes After Everything at the Neptune
Who: It seems the UK is always one step ahead of us in the music realm; they have the Beatles, blessed the world with Phil Colins and Ben Howard, and were following the Local Natives long before we’d ever heard of them! These Los Angeles boys got their big break after the release of their (more…)
Come Ride the Awesome Wave with Alt-J at the Neptune
Who: I purchased my first Mac this year, and finally feel like I’m part of the tech Savvy Seattleites. Well sort of. I haven’t mastered all of the sweet short-cuts and symbols, but when I found out I would be covering the British indie-rock foursome Alt-J, I smiled at the notion of testing out a new mac trick! (more…)
Rock out with Matt & Kim and get carried away with Passion Pit at the Paramount.
Can you think of a better opener for Michael Angelakos’ life project Passion Pit than the ever adorable rock duo Matt & Kim?! Big thank you to whoever arranged the perfect match! Their timelines for how they developed from fun loving people playing with instruments to master musicians are (more…)
Check out the sex pop third Friday series featuring Ghost Beach at the Baltic Room.
If you haven’t been to a show at the Baltic Room in a while (or ever), head over and check out the third Friday Sex Pop series experience, featuring Electro pop group Ghost Beach on February 15th. They’ve barely been on the map for a year, but the Brooklyn duo Josh Ocean and Eric (more…)
Indie vintage band Daniel Kirkpatrick and the Bayonets take down the Tractor Tavern.
Self described as Tom Petty meets Elvis Costello; doesn’t that tickle your curiosity? After several years of rehearsing and couch hopping, and spending some time in the legendary Seattle recording house Robert Lang Studios, (which has recorded the likes of Nirvana and Death Cab for Cutie) (more…)
Support local band Pickwick when the ball drops at the Showbox Market.
With the Office of Film + Music on the fast track to get more locals interested and listening to the talented artists we have right here in Seattle, we like to do our part and feature a budding local in the (more…)
