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Seattle’s Ramona the Band will ‘pop up live’ at SXSW
By GENE STOUT
We’ve got a winner in the “Pop Up Live” competition you read about last week: Seattle’s Ramona the Band, featuring singer Dion Vox, has won the fan-driven contest sponsored by PopChips, Spin and Reverbnation.
The competition allows emerging bands to get national exposure. In that sense, Ramona the Band has just made a quantum [...]
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Seattle’s Noise for the Needy Festival rocks for Real Change June 7-12
The 2011 Noise for the Needy festival was announced today by Campaign Shoutin’ Communications.
Among the more than 80 artists performing June 7-12 at Seattle venues are Brendan Perry (ex-Dead Can Dance), Detroit Cobras, Akimbo, Loch Lomond, Fresh Espresso and The Pharmacy.
Proceeds will benefit the Real Change Empowerment Project, producer of Seattle’s Real Change street newspaper.
Shows [...]
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British proto-punk Poly Styrene: 1957-2011
By MIKEL TOOMBS
“Some people think little girls should be seen ‘n’ not heard, but I say,” Poly Styrene says at the start of X-Ray Spex’ Brit-punk classic 1977 single: “Oh Bondage! Up Yours!” (It’s not about sex, but there’s sax, played by Lora Logic.)
The pre-riot grrrl, born Marian Joan Elliott-Said to a British mother and [...]
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Nirvana legend rocks on with retrospective EMP|SFM exhibit
“When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn’t go to the mainstream — the mainstream came to Nirvana.” — bassist Krist Novoselic
By GENE STOUT
“Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses” opened last weekend at the Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum with the excitement and anticipation one would [...]
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Yellowcard brings ‘violin induced pop-punk’ to Showbox SoDo
By MIKEL TOOMBS
You’re far more likely to find violence than violins inspiring rock music.
Oh, back in the day there was hippie-dippy It’s a Beautiful Day, featuring David LaFlamme. And not all that long ago I chanced upon Guarneri Underground, outside Bellevue Square, playing an electric-violin-based version of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” (duh duh duhnt, duh duh [...]
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