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CONCERT PREVIEW: Smashing Pumpkins bring ‘Kaleidyscope’ to Showbox
Led by Billy Corgan, the Smashing Pumpkins are currently criss-crossing the country on an extended tour of intimate venues that includes a sold-out show Friday (Sept. 10) at Showbox SoDo.
The rock band’s first tour since December 2008 features “a balance of classics, a few obscure ones, and new ‘Teargarden’ material,” says Corgan.
Last spring, the Pumpkins [...]
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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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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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PHOTO GALLERY: Rush brings its ‘Time Machine’ to White River Amphitheatre
Canadian band Rush brought its classic hard-rock sound to the White River Amphitheatre Saturday (Aug. 7) for a two-part performance plus encore.
The band’s “Time Machine 2010 Tour” started in late June in Albuquerque, N.M., and wraps up Oct. 2 in West Palm Beach, Fla.
The show featured the band’s entire “Moving Pictures” album, one of the [...]
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