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Pearl Jam kicks off its 20th anniversary with ‘Live on Ten Legs’ release
It’s hard to believe, but Pearl Jam will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2011. To kick off the year, the Seattle band will release a new live compilation album, “Live on Ten Legs.”
The album will be available through Pearl Jam’s Ten Club and selective digital and independent music retailers on Jan. 18, 2011 (Jan. 17 [...]
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Soul Asylum headlines Lounge Acts 2010, a Kurt Cobain benefit concert
Grammy winners Soul Asylum and Seattle band Sweet Water headline Lounge Acts 2010, a fourth annual Kurt Cobain Memorial Foundation benefit concert Nov. 13 at the renovated D&R Theatre in Aberdeen, Wash.
Tickets to the all-ages concert are $20-$30 at the historic theater’s Web site. All proceeds will go to the foundation, which plans to open [...]
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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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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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CONCERT REVIEW: Courtney Love and the Hole truth at Bumbershoot
By MIKEL TOOMBS
“Train wreck!”
A random guy, quoting the conventional wisdom, shouted that at regular intervals during Hole’s performance Sunday (Sept. 5) at the Bumbershoot festival’s Mainstage (Memorial Stadium).
He was roundly ignored, probably because Hole’s whole reason to exist, tabloid-baiting frontwoman Courtney Love, was inimitably witty and even lucid throughout her band’s hour-plus set. And, just [...]
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