Tag Archives: Music Madness

Arts+Entertainment By Kara Tiernan on April 25, 2013

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…)

Arts+Entertainment By Kara Tiernan on April 19, 2013

Music Madness: Local Natives

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…)

Arts+Entertainment By Kara Tiernan on April 5, 2013

Music Madness: Alt-J

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…)

Arts+Entertainment By Kara Tiernan on March 5, 2013

Music Madness: Passion Pit with Matt & Kim

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…)

Arts+Entertainment By Kara Tiernan on February 13, 2013

Music Madness: Ghost Beach

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…)

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Arts+Entertainment By Kara Tiernan on January 22, 2013

Music Madness: Daniel Kirkpatrick and the Bayonets

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…)

Arts+Entertainment By Kara Tiernan on December 28, 2012

Music Madness: Pickwick

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…)