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BUMBERSHOOT: A few images from Day One of the festival
Seattle’s 2011 Bumbershoot festival opened Saturday, Sept. 3, with dozens of musical performances on more than a half dozen stages (and a lot of sidewalks and open spaces).
The annual festival at Seattle Center drew large crowds on the first day of what has been forecast as a blazingly sunny weekend.
Among the bands and musicians highlighted [...]
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MOVIE PREVIEW: At 65, iconoclastic rocker Lemmy is anything but retiring
By MIKEL TOOMBS
Will it play in Peoria?
The question dates back to the show business of the 1920s: “If an act did well in Peoria,” according to Peoria.com (yes, I know), “vaudeville companies knew that it would work throughout the nation.”
In the 2010s, with a new movie featuring lovable rock iconoclast Lemmy Kilmister, 65, the answer [...]
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CONCERT REVIEW: X Japan makes its thunderous Seattle concert debut
Amid a blitzkrieg of sound, lights, fog and pyrotechnics, X Japan, the biggest rock band in the Land of the Rising Sun, made its Seattle debut Friday (Oct. 1) at the Paramount Theatre.
The five-member, all-male band is enormously popular in its native country, selling more than 30 million albums over three decades and regularly playing [...]
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CONCERT PREVIEW: X Japan brings drama back to rock on debut U.S. tour
X Japan may be Japan’s biggest rock band, playing arenas and stadiums throughout Asia for many years. But the group has long dreamed of touring the United States, even if it meant performing at small venues.
“Oh, my God,” band leader Yoshiki (Hayashi) said by phone from his hotel in San Francisco. “Even when we started [...]
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PHOTO GALLERY: Veteran bad boy Billy Idol rocks the Tulalip Amphitheatre
Here are a few cool pics by “Iron” Mike Savoia of a concert by Billy Idol and his band, who played a sold-out show Aug. 5 at the Tulalip Amphitheatre north of Everett, Wash.
Among the songs were such classics as “Flesh for Fantasy,” “Eyes Without a Face,” “Rebel Yell” and “White Wedding.” There was also [...]
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