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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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PHOTO GALLERY: Neil Young takes a ‘Twisted Road’ to Seattle
Neil Young brought his solo, “Twisted Road” tour to Seattle this week, performing Tuesday (July 20) at the Paramount Theatre. (Bert Jansch opened the concert.)
Young didn’t provide review tickets to the sold-out show, but I was able to arrange a photo pass for Seattle photographer Jim Bennett, who captured these images near the beginning of [...]
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Poster exhibit features two decades of Pearl Jam pinups
Pearl Jam’s Ten Club is throwing a poster party.
The Ten Club’s “Rock N’ Art Poster Convention” is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 23, at Showbox at the Market. Admission is free, and the show is open to all ages.
The convention features exclusive posters from gigs around the world in the last two [...]
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SAM exhibit explores Kurt Cobain legend in striking multi-media display
Kurt Cobain remains one of the most intriguing figures in rock ‘n’ roll, a shooting star who came and went in a flash, leaving behind an amazing legacy.
In Seattle, he rose from modest beginnings to become the colossus of grunge. Cobain’s death in 1994 was the biggest news event in Seattle music history. Read about [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: Soundgarden reunion a warmup for Lollapalooza
It was the hottest ticket in town Friday: a concert by a group calling itself “Nudedragons.”
Nudedragons? It was actually a reunited Soundgarden with a phony name (actually an anagram of the band’s name), performing for the first time in more than a decade for a pumped-up, full-capacity crowd of longtime fans at Showbox at the [...]
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