Tag: review
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Love and Rain Pours Down on Big Thief at Remlinger Farms
Writing By Bennett Fitzgerald photos by courtney davison / As I drove to this show at Remlinger Farms, I felt more and more worried about the weather. Ithad been pouring. This venue was an actual farm. I wore heels. But, in the opinion of myself andthe hundreds of other Washingtonians on their way to this…
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A Sea of Swaying Bodies: Billie Marten Live at The Crocodile
By Lindy Rybloom You find me on an afternoon in March. Although it is technically the beginning of spring,you’d never be able to guess because the weather will tell you the opposite. Before I step out ofthe door, I’m sure to put on two pairs of socks, a thermal layer underneath my pants, and forgood…
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Ohio Boys, Beautiful Music: A Caamp Concert at Dune Peninsula
Photos and writing by Frances Edwards-Hughes. A rolled-out Persian rug, brass lamps to light up their pedals, stacks of shitty romcom books, and incense burning. Jeans with paint on them, and hats worn a hundred times—the sweat marks turning the blue fabric green. Yellow and red. Sunshine and loving. Caamp articulates their band’s music through…
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Hovvdy Brings Their Contagious Warmth and Careful Lyricism to The Crocodile
Review and photos by: Frannie Edwards-Hughes Sweet, love in its early days, a Southern summer, a walk by yourself when the sun’s going down—or maybe it’s coming up—praying for a friend every night, getting older each day, it’s all familiar, I don’t recognize myself from a year ago. This is what Hovvdy sounds like to…
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Have You Ever Been Part of a Singing Army of Elves?
By Lio Capellaro It’s a Tuesday night at Neumos Seattle, where Dora Jar is playing on her 2024 west coast tour. My friends and I enter the semi-packed venue, and face a sea of fairy queens and witches and wood nymphs that make up the crowd. Glitter faces, lace, neon hair clips are everywhere we…
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LOMU: The Taiwanese DJ evolving the electronic scene
By Rhae Schulz-O’Neil Takao Drums event flyer, Kaohsiung Taiwan, 2024 Drum and Bass, the beloved electronic dance subgenre is one of the most popular electronic genres to come out of the United Kingdom 90’s breakbeat/rave scene. Having spanned into a multitude of DnB sub-genres, Drum and Bass (sometimes referred to as jungle beats) can be…
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KUPS International: Taiwan’s Vibrant and Worldly Jazz Scene
By Rhae Schulz-O’Neil It’s Saturday night in the northern Zhongshan district (中山区) of Taipei (台北) Taiwan and, tucked away in the unsuspecting jazz bar Sappho, people young and old flood in for a taste of live music. The bar, which exclusively houses live Jazz Tuesday through Saturday, at first glance doesn’t seem to have that…
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Frankie and the Witch Fingers tear up the Tractor Tavern with support from Monsterwatch
By Sage Matkin and Tate DeCarlo Photos by V Solar-Miller Cover Photo: Dylan Sizemore of Frankie and the Witch Fingers mid-riff Illuminated by the irrational flair of plum colored stage lights, a slight figure emerged against the milieu of surging bodies and straining instruments. Clad in some form of sailor costume, the faceless waif appeared…
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Go Back To Where You Belong, In My Memories by The Hypocrites Club
By Tate DeCarlo I met Esteban “Marty” Martha earlier this fall when he visited the University of Puget Sound with Tulengua, a bilingual, genre-breaking supergroup from southern California. Tulengua played an incredible set at the ASUPS Identity Day event and were kind enough to be interviewed on air by KUPS staff. I ended up chatting…
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Death is Nothing to Us by Fiddlehead
By Tate DeCarlo Fiddlehead embraces shift in style with 2023 album release Death is Nothing to Us Post-hardcore allstars Fiddlehead, renown for their heart-wrenching, high energy sound, released the album Death is Nothing to Us this August. Building on the momentum of their 2021 release Between the Richness and 2018’s Springtime and Blind, this newest…