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Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz top Coachella festival lineup
Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz, Vampire Weekend, Faith No More, Pavement and more than 100 other groups top this year’s lineup at the 11th Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival April 16-18 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif.
Here’s the lineup announced this week:
Jay-Z headlines April 16. Other acts the first day include LCD Soundsystem, [...]
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Battle of the Tech Bands: Boston vs. Seattle (in Boston)
If you’re planning to be in Boston in early February, mark you calendar for Xconomy’s Battle of the Tech Bands 3: Seattle vs. Boston.
For the last two years, bands from innovative New England companies have been battling for supremacy. But now the competition is going cross-country. (Read my review of last year’s battle of the [...]
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Local bands can Sound Off! this winter at EMP/SFM
Sound Off! 2010, the Northwest’s biggest underage battle of the bands, begins Feb. 13 at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum.
The Sound Off! series has given a great boost to the underage music community — and has even helped launched careers.
Over the last decade, Sound Off! winners have included such bands as [...]
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Hip-hop duo Fresh Espresso’s debut video is “Big Or Small”
Seattle hip-hop duo Fresh Espresso has released its first video, the first “cinematic” offering from its debut album, “Glamour.” Fresh Espresso represents a new wave of talented Seattle hip-hop acts.
The video was shot in two days last August and features cameos by members of Mad Rad, They Live! and the crew from Winner’s Circle. Making [...]
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UPDATE: War Room closing; fire sprinkler law among factors
The state’s law requiring nightclubs to install expensive fire-suppression systems is a factor in the demise of hip Capitol Hill nightclub The War Room, which faced a Dec. 1 deadline to a install a sprinkler system estimated to cost more than $60,000.
The club plans to close Nov. 30 and is now officially for sale.
“It’s a [...]
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War Room a casualty of state’s fire sprinkler law and other factors
The state’s law requiring nightclubs to install expensive fire-suppression systems is a factor in the demise of hip Capitol Hill nightclub The War Room, which faced a Dec. 1 deadline to a install a sprinkler system estimated to cost more than $60,000.
The club plans to close Nov. 30 and is now officially for sale.
“It’s a [...]
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War Room a casualty of state’s fire sprinkler law and other factors
The state’s law requiring nightclubs to install expensive fire-suppression systems is a factor in the demise of hip Capitol Hill nightclub The War Room, which faced a Dec. 1 deadline to a install a sprinkler system estimated to cost more than $60,000.
The club plans to close Nov. 30 and is now officially for sale.
“It’s a [...]
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Seattle musicians ‘Give Back’ to Arts Corps and local food banks
Ben Gibbard, The Moondoggies, D.Black, The Lonely Forest, The Cave Singers and more than 30 other artists or bands are featured on the upcoming GIVE compilation.
The $7 digital music and video compilation, which can be downloaded at Giveseattle.org beginning Nov. 17, will benefit Arts Corps and Seattle food banks. The collection can also be purchased [...]
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Bumbershoot is a wrap: the photographic evidence
The 2009 Bumbershoot festival came to a close with the last wailing guitar riffs from Modest Mouse Monday night at the Bumbershoot Mainstage.
It may go down as the wettest Bumbershoot of the last two decades, with showers and/or rain much of the weekend.
But festivalgoers braved the weather for some amazing performances, from Sheryl Crow to [...]
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PREVIEW: From Sheryl Crow to Bumbershoot-A-Go-Go!
The cultural smorgasbord is about to begin.
The 39th annual Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival opens Saturday and continues through Labor with hundreds of performances on 20 indoor and outdoor stages.
In addition to music, the festival is jam-packed with comedy, visual and literary arts, film, theater, dance and urban crafts on the 74-acre Seattle Center [...]
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