Last year, NadaMucho.com Contributor Sam Hardy caught Detroit-based indie pop outfit Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. opening for Atlas Genius at the Neptune Theater. He raved about the band so much that we decided to send a photographer to capture their show at the Tractor Tavern earlier this month.
The Macefield Music Festival celebrated its second year last weekend in Ballard, with shows at The Tractor, a newly remodeled Sunset Tavern, Conor Byrne, which serves as the musical club house for many neighborhood musicians and singer/songwriters throughout the year; Hattie’s Hat restaurant and bar; Sonic Boom Records; and a re-purposed neighborhood space called the Macefield Market that served as the epicenter for the two day event.
The 11th annual Decibel, an “international festival of electronic music performance, visual art and new media” was held September 24-28 at various venues across Seattle. NadaMucho.com Photographer Jim Toohey and Sunny Martini venue-hopped between the Crocodile, the Showbox, festival headquarters at the EMP Museum and various other local venues to capture the event in pictures.
Columbian band Bomba Estereo dazzled a multi-ethnic Bumbershoot crowd late in the afternoon on Labor Day 2014, mixing electronic, reggae and traditional “cumbia” music in a sexy, sweaty set. Photographer Sunny Martini caught the action.
Jim Toohey – Before the show started, I heard someone say: “and don’t forget to make music.” It may have been one of the members of Negativland, the Bay Area sound collective that emerged in the late 70s and has managed to piss off U2 and Kasey Casem in the 1980s; collaborated with Chumbawumba to cut up the theme from the PBS kids show The Teletubbies in 1999; and recorded a song called “Christianity Is Stupid.” It may have been one of the band members.
