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I’ll drink to that: Heineken City Arts Festival returns for 2011
By GENE STOUT
Pass the beer and put me on the guest list for the 2011 Heineken City Arts Festival.
The second annual city-wide Seattle event returns Oct. 20-22 at more than a dozen Seattle venues, among them Benaroya Hall, Paramount Theatre, Showbox Market and Showbox SoDo, Crocodile Café, The Triple Door and The Comet.
Headliners include Ryan [...]
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CONCERT PREVIEW: My Morning Jacket takes a circuitous route to hard rock
By MIKEL TOOMBS
The new My Morning Jacket album, “Circuital” (ATO Records), which made its debut at No. 5 on the Billboard Albums chart, starts in a manner that’s, in the words of a classic “Almost Live!” sketch (you know, the one with the headbanging attitude that MMJ often shares), inexcusably lame.
Happily, after this four-song Lame [...]
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This Mountain Man doesn’t sport facial hair but plays ’simply good folk’
By MIKEL TOOMBS
You’d probably expect an act called Mountain Man to be a bearded guy in a flannel shirt.
Well, the first thing you’ll notice about Vermont’s Mountain Man, which opens for The Decemberists Friday night (Feb. 18) at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre, is that there is (er, are) three of them and, happily, none [...]
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Seattle rap duo Blue Scholars kick off inaugural City Arts Fest with big beats
Seattle’s Blue Scholars, reportedly the first local rap duo to headline the Paramount Theatre, kicked off the first City Arts Fest Wednesday night. The lineup included Brother Ali, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Fresh Espresso, Mash Hall and Tilson (formerly of The Saturday Knights).
Across town, Belle & Sebastian were also celebrating the start of the inaugural [...]
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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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