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Seattle City of Music Awards: it’s time to hand out a few trophies
Brandi Carlile, Clarence Acox, Scott Brown and Gerard Schwarz will be honored at the second annual City of Music Awards Oct. 6 at Showbox at the Market.
The awards will kick off the first City of Music Festival, featuring a month of musical performances by hundreds of artists from Seattle’s diverse music community.
Performers at the awards [...]
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PHOTO GALLERY: Willie Nelson wows ‘em at the Puyallup Fair grandstand
Willie Nelson has been one of the biggest stars in the Puyallup Fair constellation this year. Seattle photographer Christopher Nelson snapped these photos of the Texas icon on Sept. 16.
Nelson treated concertgoers to a slew of his most popular songs. Christopher Nelson (no relation to Willie Nelson, of course) was restricted to shooting the first [...]
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EMP tribute marks 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s death
The Experience Music Project will present a special weekend commemorating the 40th anniversary of Seattle native Jimi Hendrix’s death on Sept. 18, 1970. The event will honor the life, music and legacy of one of the most influential musicians in rock history.
Beginning Saturday (Sept. 18), a collection of rare artifacts from the last years of [...]
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Huge Hendrix box set spans the guitar legend’s career from 1964-1970
On Nov. 16, Legacy Recordings and Experience Hendrix will release “West Coast Seattle Boy — The Jimi Hendrix Anthology,” featuring more than four hours of rare and previously unreleased Hendrix music on a five-disc (four CDs, one DVD) deluxe box set.
The huge, career-spanning set of 45 unreleased recordings traces Hendrix’s journey from little-known R&B sideman [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Smashing Pumpkins brings its ‘Kaleidyscope’ to SoDo
Billy Corgan was absolutely smashing in his sold-out Showbox Sodo performance Friday night (Sept. 10).
Leading his latest incarnation of the Smashing Pumpkins — guitarist Jeff Schroeder, drummer Mike Bryne (who wasn’t born until after the original band formed more than 20 years ago) and new bassist Nicole Fiorentino — Corgan rocked the club with classic [...]
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