‘Alt Folk’ Archives
Phil Selway – Familial
Score: 5.2 Release Date: August 31st, 2010 Label: Nonesuch Records Website The Radiohead Super-Fan’s Tier List User guide: The farther down the tier list you go, the bigger fan of Radiohead you are. Tier 0: Radio-wha? Tier 1: You heard “Creep” back on MTV a while ago (maybe on “Beavis and Butthead”) and you bought Pablo Honey because of it. You haven’t listened to it since [...]
BumberPreview: Fences Gives SSG a Private Show!
What came first: the melodrama, or the musician? This question could be discussed for days upon end. One thing that is undisputed is that Chris Mansfield, leading man and songwriter of Fences, can reach the darkest part of one's soul, whether one was previously aware of it's existence or not. Although Fences carries the modus operandi of being "sad bastard music," it's so much more than that. For [...]
Also Tonight: Rachel Goodrich
Timmy Sunshine & The Conductors!, Rachel Goodrich @ Skylark Cafe | 08/10 | FREE | 9pm So... Is it in some way sexist to begin this preview by saying that Rachel Goodrich is adorable? Because lets be frank here-- she puts the adorable cherry on top of the cake that is adorableness. ...Sorry. It's true. Beyond that, though, she's awesome. She's got that very specific kind of Karen Dalton [...]
Tonight in Music: Bonnie “Prince” Billy (Win Tickets!!!), William Fitzsimmons
Bonnie "Prince" Billy & The Cairo Gang, Sir Richard Bishop @ Showbox at the Market | 8/19 | 8 pm | $24 | All Ages If someone hasn't called dibs on writing Will Oldham's biography, I'd like to take on the task in about ten years. Of Palace Brothers fame, Oldham has been playing as Bonnie "Prince: Billy for the last decade or so. He's an enigmatic folk troubadour who casts his dark [...]
Tonight in Music: Big Spiders Back, Toad the Wet Sprocket with Hey Marseilles
Tonight's choices are simple. If you want electronic and cheap, go to the Sunset Tavern. If you have more discretionary income, and you liked 90's rock, go to the Paramount. Details below. Big Spider's Back, Wow and Flutter, The Harvey Girls, and Pure Moods @ The Sunset Tavern | 7/29 | 9pm | $6 | 21+ If you haven't heard Big Spider's Back, think space exploration with a twist of [...]
Victoria Williams to take the stage at the Sunset Tavern tonight!
Jeremy Burk, Levi Fuller, Robert Deeble, Victoria Williams @ The Sunset Tavern | $7 | 9pm For a while now The Sunset Tavern's website has read "Jeremy Burk, Levi Fuller, Robert Deeble with a special secret guest" and now we at SSG have been told who this "special secret guest" is. No one could have imagined just how special, however, the guest was going to be. Victoria Williams will take the [...]
Tonight in Music: Capitol Hill Block Party (duh), Typhoon
Capitol Hill Block Party | 7/25 | 2pm - 2am | $23 | All-Ages Oh hey, did you hear about this big festival thing on Capitol Hill? Apparently it used to be just two days but now it's THREE. WHOOAAA...anyway, tickets are NOT sold out yet for CHBP today. Get them quick before they are. Here be the lineup in case you didn't have it bashed into your skull yet. Also, Suzi Pratt has a lot of [...]
Block Party at The Cha Cha (Saturday): Blood Red Dancers
Photo by Justin Renney Aaron Poppick, Julian Thomas, and Kevin Lord have been preaching their fire and brimstone whisky guilt for the past three years as Blood Red Dancers. Having been featured in numerous Seattle publications including being mentioned in the Seattle P-I's blog as having "made one of the best EPs/CDs of the year," for 2008's Let Him Fight, I'll Be In The Breadline, this trio of [...]
The Avett Brothers, Thao With The Get Down Stay Down
To See Rating: 7/10 Just Curious Rating: 7/10 Normally a Northwest favorite, Thao opened the show with The Get Down Stay Down, but failed to get much more than piqued interest from the Paramount crowd who was sitting and waiting for The Avett Brothers. The Virginia-via-San-Francisco native chugged through a set of dirty, bluesy folk songs with her three-piece band, starting with "What [...]
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rivers
Score: 7/10 Release Date: August 24th, 2010 Label: The Control Group MySpace In popular music, tropes recycle themselves extending past simple musical choices to group size, format, name, inter-band relationships and even geographic location. The Beatles standardized the stereotypical four piece. Peter, Paul, and Mary were arranged and visually represented to reach a biblically inclined [...]
