Travis Trautt – Northwest psychedelic garage rockers The Night Beats payed a high energy show at the Nectar Lounge in Fremont on November 12. The band’s liquid light show added to the craziness at the show, which had a great home town vibe.
Darren Selector – Thirty years ago the Beastie Boys released their debut album Licensed to Ill. At that time in my life, I don’t think I had heard any hip-hop. My pops was a fan of new wave so I knew Blondie’s “Rapture,” (which counts as hip-hop in my book, actually) and maybe I heard the Clash on some the mixtapes he recorded while listening to Seattle’s short-lived KYYX radio at work?
Tim Basaraba – Last month, renowned grunge-era punk rock legend Tad Doyle brought his latest project, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth (BOTSC), to our quaint little Substation venue in Ballard alongside many of his musical friends.
Christian Klepac – To be an American, here in the darkening days of late 2016, is to understand perhaps a little too well what it might be like to be trapped inside an episode of The Dollop, a podcast where all the cruelties and stupidities of American history are dragged into the spotlight and laughed at, so as not to be cried about.
Nicholas Anderson – When David Bowie died, we lost our hearts. When Prince passed on, we lost our breath. And now, with Leonard Cohen, we’ve lost our soul.
