Posts Tagged ‘Sub Pop’
Shabazz Palaces Signs to Sub Pop!
Sub Pop made the thrilling announcement this morning that they signed Shabazz Palaces! Shabazz Palaces has become a mega-power in hip-hop overnight. Their first Seattle show was the most anticipated in 2010 and set the bar for the rest of the decade. People would refer to that show as the moment in time where things happened before or after, i.e. "It was about a month before Shabazz [...]
Photo Set: Beach House and Dum Dum Girls
Beach House and Dum Dum Girls play at Marymoor Park in Redmond on August 29,2010, as openers for the unexpectedly canceled Vampire Weekend show. All photos by Suzi Pratt. Beach House Dum Dum Girls
Preview: Carissa’s Wierd Reunion Show! (OMG WIN TICKETS!!!)
Carissa's Wierd, Aveo @ Showbox Market | 07/09 | 8pm| $18 Adv You better not miss this one. You just might regret it for the rest of your life. This is a once in a lifetime show. This reunion show is slated as a singular event, promoting the Hardly Art release They Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003, which will serve as a retrospective for Carissa's Wierd. You will most [...]
Dum Dum Girls, The Crocodiles, Past Lives
To See Rating: 7.5/10 Just Curious Rating: 7/10 Not many new music acts are as indicative of California as Crocodiles and Dum Dum Girls, both steeped in 60's nostalgia and ghosts of youthful rebellion still trying to stir up trouble. Both got their start two years ago, Crocodiles as a tape loop driven duo of Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell (both ex-Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower) and [...]
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 Music: Dum Dum Girls – “Bhang Bhang”
While the aesthetic of lo-fi music has a habit of teetering somewhere in the middle of past bliss and garbage so present that one tends to find themselves leaving the venue, Dum Dum Girls have successfully captured nostalgia. In a decade where the rise of vinyl and thrift stores parallel the rise of insubstantial digital files and aggressive clothing companies, it’s genuinely sublime to hear [...]
Beach House Live Review and NEW MUSIC
To See Rating: 7.5/10 Just Curious Rating: 8/10 Photo by Suzi Pratt Monday night at Neumos, the ever-popular dream-pop band Beach House succeeded in crafting as close to a lucid dream as one might experience while sleeping. Making use of heavy guitar reverberation, ethereal keyboards and forlorn vocals, the trio from Baltimore established a detached soundscape that entranced the [...]
Also Tonight: Kinski
Kinski @ The Crocodile | 04/06 | 9pm | $8 advance Jason Friendt mentioned that Kinski will be main support for Retribution Gospel Choir tonight, but do you know what a treat this is? Kinski is a band that has been around for over a decade, and still manages to stay just under the radar. The inception of Kinski came out of a casual yet serendipitous conversation at a bar when founding members [...]
New Music: CocoRosie “Lemonade”
Sub Pop is being generous again with it's unreleased music, and they are sharing another little nugget from CocoRosie's upcoming release Grey Oceans, out May 11, 2010, "Lemonade." As crazy as sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady look in the above picture, their up to something fresh, personal, and artsy. In the below song, "Lemonade," CocoRosie combine the old and the new. Light [...]
