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The sounds of the southern Sahara drift through The Triple Door
By MIKEL TOOMBS
“Is Tinariwen the greatest band on earth?”
The online magazine Slate posed that question a couple years back, and the latest release by the band from the southern Sahara Desert (Tinariwen means “deserts” or “empty spaces” in the Tamashek language) adds more evidence for the affirmative [...]
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Pearl Jam, Aretha Franklin, Neville Brothers headline New Orleans fest
Pearl Jam will make its first appearance at the Jazz & Heritage Festival April 23-25 and April 29-May 2 — along with Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Lionel Richie, The Neville Brothers, Allman Brothers Band, Anita Baker, My Morning Jacket and many, many other artists.
Now in its fifth decade, the 41st festival at the Fair Grounds [...]
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Happy Hour Hero
WHAT: Seattle rock band featuring Katy Devereau (vocals), Dave O’Leary (bass), Roger C. Davis (guitar), Doug Marrapodi (drums, percussion) and Billy Stover (keyboards). (Devereau is the sister of Chris Cornell.) Managed by Maurer Music Management (contact smaurer@maurermusic.com). Photos by Marika Garland.
SOUND: In the band’s words, the sound is “sexy, sultry, slightly dirty, seriously seductive.” [...]
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Bill Champlin leaves Chicago and heads to Seattle
Singer-guitarist Bill Champlin, who recently went rogue after nearly three decades with jazz-rock band Chicago, is currently on tour with his new album, “No Place Left to Fall” (Dream Makers), his first solo CD in more than 10 years.
The album includes a 70-minute bonus DVD that includes a documentary on the making of the album [...]
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Rick Estrin & the Nightcats get ‘Twisted’
Is Seattle’s gloomy weather getting you down? Kick your autumn blues with Rick Estrin & the Nightcats.
Estrin, a formidable blues harpist Muddy Waters once called “outta sight,” fronts the swinging, jumping band formerly known as Little Charlie and the Nightcats.
Even when Little Charlie Baty headed the group, Estrin was out front with his wailing harmonica [...]
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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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Laura Love ‘dreams big’ for Women in Trades
Seattle singer-songwriter Laura Love and her band are the featured performers at the third annual Women in Trades “Dream Big Dinner” Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Lake City Elks, 14540 Bothell Way N.E.
The event celebrates the 30th anniversary of Washington Women in Trades, a community-based nonprofit seeking to improve the economic equity and self-sufficiency of [...]
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Austin City Limits Festival: Music and Mayhem in Mudville
AUSTIN, Texas — The eighth annual Austin City Limits Festival came to a muddy, grungy close Sunday night with a powerful concert finale by Pearl Jam.
The Seattle group led by singer-guitarist Eddie Vedder had the audience entirely to itself Sunday night, with no other stages competing for fans’ attention.
Unlike its intimate and exclusive “Austin City [...]
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Austin City Limits Festival: As wet and wild as Bumbershoot
AUSTIN, Texas — After a gloriously sunny and warm first day on Friday, the Austin City Limits Festival settled into a wet, Seattle groove Saturday with a steady drizzle much of the day.
In fact, the ACL festival (named for the long-running public-TV show) felt much like Seattle’s recent, drizzly Bumbershoot festival — at least on [...]
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