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CONCERT PREVIEW: ‘Hootenanny for a Healthy Gulf’ draws local rock stars
Are you satisfied that oil-eating microbes will tidy up the Gulf of Mexico after this year’s mammoth oil spill? Or would you prefer to do something about it yourself — and have fun at the same time?
“Hootenanny for a Healthy Gulf” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 2) at the Moore Theatre is the latest musical [...]
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PHOTO GALLERY: Ted Nugent rocks Clearwater Casino amphitheater
Seattle photographer “Iron” Mike Savoia shot this gallery of photos from a concert by hard-rock guitarist and singer Ted Nugent Aug. 24 at the Clearwater Casino in Suquamish on the Kitsap Pennisula.
“Ted was Ted,” Savoia says. “Tongue-in-cheek, political, pro-guns, hunting, etc.”
Nugent’s band featured Greg Smith (bass, vocals), who has played with Alice Cooper, Dokken, Ritchie [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Lady Gaga makes her triumphant return to Tacoma
Lady Gaga has come a long, long way since her first performance at the Tacoma Dome in 2008 as opening act for New Kids on the Block.
During that overwrought set, she kept shouting, “Hello, Seattle,” apparently unaware of where she was.
But in her triumphant return to the Tacoma Dome Saturday night (Aug. 21), Gaga was [...]
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Seattle artist Jesse Higman finds the ‘grille’ of his dreams in new Heart CD
Seattle artist Jesse Higman, recipient of a 2009 Mayor’s Arts Award, has designed the album cover for Heart’s new disc, “Red Velvet Car.” The band’s first studio album in six years is due Aug. 31.
A video showing the evolution of Higman’s artwork’s for the album is featured on YouTube.
Higman, who was paralyzed at 15 by [...]
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Layne Staley Tribute draws My Sister’s Machine, Shawn Smith and others
The 2010 Layne Staley Tribute and Benefit Concert features reunited Seattle grunge band My Sister’s Machine, as well as Shawn Smith (with All Hail the Crown), Villains of Yesterday and Gunn & the Damage Done, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday (Aug. 21) at Showbox at the Market.
Staley, as the original lead singer for Alice in Chains, [...]
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