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Sammamish band wins 2010 Sound Off! finals at EMP/SFM
A Sammamish band made some waves at the Sound Off! finals Saturday (March 6) at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum.
The annual battle-of-the-bands competition, whose past winners include Schoolyard Heroes, The Lonely H, Idiot Pilot, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head and others, awarded Great Waves of Sammamish the top prize in the four-band showdown [...]
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Four Northwest bands compete at Sound Off! finals Saturday at EMP/SFM
One of four young Northwest bands — Candysound (Bellingham and Burlington), Great Waves (Sammamish), Hooves and Beak (Seattle) and SEACATS (Kelso) — will become the first-place winner of the 2010 Sound Off! competition Saturday (March 6) at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum.
Prizes will also be awarded the second- and third-place winners.
The 2010 [...]
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Spectacle almost outweighed music at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards
(Editor’s note: the following story is also posted at Osmosis-online.com)
BY COLIN POWERS
The Grammys might not have “put a ring on it” Sunday night, but by bestowing Beyonce with some serious precious metal — six trophies to add to the seven she had previously won — the voters behind music’s biggest honor showed they’re ready for [...]
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Beyonce, Taylor Swift dominate Grammy Awards telecast
With huge wins by Beyonce and Taylor Swift, it was definitely ladies night at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards.
Beyonce made Grammy history by walking away with six awards, among them song of the year for her R&B anthem “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It),” making her the most award-bestowed woman in a single night [...]
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Taylor Swift is the artist to beat on Grammy Awards telecast
In just a few hours, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will announce the winners of the 52nd annual Grammy Awards during a telecast at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS-TV.
Heavily favored to win is country-pop singer Taylor Swift, who is up against Lady Gaga, Beyonce, the Black Eyed Peas and the Dave Matthews [...]
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Battle of the Tech Bands: Boston vs. Seattle (in Boston)
If you’re planning to be in Boston in early February, mark you calendar for Xconomy’s Battle of the Tech Bands 3: Seattle vs. Boston.
For the last two years, bands from innovative New England companies have been battling for supremacy. But now the competition is going cross-country. (Read my review of last year’s battle of the [...]
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Local bands can Sound Off! this winter at EMP/SFM
Sound Off! 2010, the Northwest’s biggest underage battle of the bands, begins Feb. 13 at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum.
The Sound Off! series has given a great boost to the underage music community — and has even helped launched careers.
Over the last decade, Sound Off! winners have included such bands as [...]
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Three of Seattle’s top bands among Grammy nominees
Three of Seattle’s top rock bands — Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Death Cab for Cutie — are among the nominees for the 52nd Grammy Awards Jan. 31 on CBS-TV.
Alice in Chains is nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance for “Check My Brain,” while Pearl Jam received a nod for Best Rock Song for [...]
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Soul survivor Steve Cropper grooves to his Founders Award
All four Beatles once bowed from the waist in the presence of the man honored Thursday night with a Founders Award at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum.
Steve Cropper — singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer and legendary soul man — was a founding member of the Mar-Keys (the house band for Stax Records) and [...]
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EMP honors a music-industry legend: Steve Cropper
Steve Cropper, the man who co-founded Booker T. & the MGs and helped pen the classic “In the Midnight Hour” will be the recipient of a 2009 Founders Award from the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum.
The third annual Founders Award Celebration is at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, at the museum. Joining Cropper [...]
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