‘Soul’ Archives
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 [...]
Watch List: Andreya Triana
There are many leading ladies of soul. Andreya Triana is looking to add her name next to women like India.Arie and Goapele. For those of you who haven't heard of Andreya Triana, there is a larger chance you've heard of Bonobo. Andreya Triana was the soulful lure on a few songs of Bonobo's on his March 23rd release Black Sands, and now he has stepped up to produce Triana's debut album, Lost [...]
The Mynabirds come to The Sunset Tavern
The Mynabirds, The Grandtours, Like Lightning @ Sunset Tavern | 07/15 | 9pm | $8 The Mynabirds is the latest project spearheaded by Laura Burhenn, she of various solo records and at least one LP with the fantastic Georgie James (a duo with ex Q and not U drummer John Davis). The style of music, and consequently Burhenn's vocals in The Mynabirds are almost unrecognizable. She's taken an [...]
Tonight in Music: Meshell Ndegeocello, Hey Marseilles, I See Hawks in L.A., and more
Meshell Ndegeocello @ The Triple Door | 6/29 | 7:30 pm | $28/$32 | All ages There are some artists whose sheer musical talent is so expansive that it makes every project they're involved in golden. I've always felt this way about the criminally underrated Meshell Ndegeocello (pronounced Mee-shell N-deh-gay-o-chel-o). Whether it's that oh-so-funky neo-soul or jazz for the hip-hop heads, [...]
Tonight In Music: CocoRosie, Portugal The Man, and more
Coco Rosie, Cibelle @ The Showbox at the Market | 6/25 | Doors @ 8pm | $22 | All Ages Tonight The Showbox stage will be engulfed by the feminine folk delirium that is CocoRosie. Two French sisters who reunited and started playing music in 2003, Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady have become famous for their warped sonic cocktail of electronic instruments, opera, pop, children's toys, [...]
New Video: The Staxx Brothers “1992″
DP Staxx & Ayo dancing their way to stardom during the "1992" video shoot Now that everyone has had a week to check-out "Oh Carolina," the first video in The Staxx Brothers "Phonebooth Graveyard Trilogy," SSG is excited to premiere the next installment, "1992." In this video, we get a peek at the Reverend DP Staxx' day job and get a lesson in how to party like it's 1992 and oh holy hell [...]
Preview: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, The Heavy @ Showbox SoDo 06/21 | 8pm | $23.50 Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are legendary party-makers. This lady and her guys have built a reputation around the country for showing up, making a soulful ruckus, and leaving the audience sweaty but still wanting more. Bass player and bandleader Bosco Mann runs Daptone records and has made the Dap-Kings (and the [...]
New Video: The Staxx Brothers : “Oh Carolina”
On location at Leny's Tavern in Seattle, WA Music videos are an interesting medium; sometimes the end result is the video producer's interpretation of a song that may or may nor have included the artists actual input and/or collaboration. Then there are the times that a video is the end product of an artists vision for bringing their song to life. These types of videos can give fans and viewers [...]
Tonight in Music: Stars, Quadron, The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra and more
Stars, Dead Child Star @ The Triple Door | 6/15 | 7:30pm | $25 | All-Ages | SOLD OUT If you go to the Triple Door tonight, you may find yourself STARstruck...mmk. Canada's Stars will be performing their new album The Five Ghosts in it's entirety and tomorrow will be performing a fan selected set at the same time and place. Released on Soft Revolution Records, the band's own label, The Five [...]
Findlay Brown
To See Rating: 7.2/10 Just Curious Rating: 7/10 “I hope you like love songs… because that’s all I’ve got.” –Findlay Brown Findlay Brown does not exist in the present time, like mere mortals. No, Brown prefers to live firmly alongside his music idols from times past: Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Roy Orbison. He has apparently more than simply studied these mentors; visibly, [...]
