Tag: reviews
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Feb 20th, Cat Power at The Paramount
By Chloe Ivy-Curwen I arrived at the Paramount theater on February 20th, it was cold and dark, but not raining. This was my first time at a concert alone, and I’m so grateful that it was to see Cat power performing her album The Greatest. My introduction to Cat Power would be where most people…
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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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“If You Tap on the Glass, The Sharks Might Look at You, Damned If They Don’t, And You’re Damned If They Do” – MJ Lenderman Live at The Neptune Theatre
Photos and Writing By Frances Edwards-Hughes A tired, bleak, and early-sundown day turns into a dream of a night as I file into The Neptune Theatre. I drove my car from Minneapolis to Tacoma, only for it to fall apart one month later, so the trek to Seattle consists of three different modes of transportation:…
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Manning Fireworks is Really Freaking Special
By Sara Guillen-Alvarado The imagery and tone throughout Manning Fireworks presents to me a feeling of melancholy. MJ Lenderman embraces recklessness and raw vulnerability in his latest album release. But the notion of an agonized American South character is a thread weaving throughout the ANTI- label. ANTI-, founded at the turn of the 21st century,…
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“The Thing” Double-Feature: The Thing Brings Their Signature Sound all the way From New York in the Wake of Their Most Recent Album Release
By Paulie Maturo, photos by Max Ketterer Nov. 6th – Zookraught, The Thing, Monsterwatch; Sunset Tavern After squeezing my hatchback into a cramped parking space in Seattle’s quiet Ballard district, I began my walk down Market Street, where I was delighted to pass Black Ends’ ‘Psychotic Spew’ display in the window of Sonic Boom Records.…
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Going on a Lunar Vacation
By Sara Guillen-Alvarado The sun slips into my car through the open window as I drive down Love Lane. It’s a perfect temperature on a random July morning. I am 17, I am a soon-to-be high school senior, I have just been broken up with a week earlier, and I am listening to Lunar Vacation’s…
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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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FROM THE GATORADIO ARCHIVE: An Interview with Michigander
Hosted by Rhae Schulz Michigander, Photo by Erik Frost Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jason, AKA Michigander, a rising American rock musician to chat music, influences, interests and more. The singer is currently on tour, having just released “Giving Up“, a 2 song EP that plays with some catchy twang and…
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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…