Naomi Cooper – Excited to cover Freakout Fest last Thursday night with both words and drawing, I hustled to the box office near the new “Freakout in the Streets” outdoor stage and managed to catch a bit of Chris King and the Gutterballs before totally-not-speedwalking over to Hotel Albatross for The Kathy Moore Super Power Trio (KMSPT) with special guest Jessica Lurie.
Andy Bookwalter – Remember that time when the world ended? When huge music festivals went from “hedonistic happy fun time” to “disgusting disease vectors” overnight? That was awesome, unless you like getting into festivals for free, pitching snark and cracking wise about the old days.
It’s been a little over a week since I had my socks rocked off at Seattle’s Showbox SoDo, where Jawbreaker kicked off their Dear You 25th Anniversary Tour. I’m still riding high.
Camille Nibungco – Mindie (Major Indie) rock forefathers and pioneers, the Strokes, treated early Y2K indieheads with an early Monday night performance at the WaMu Theatre at the start of March, just before live music went on indefinite hiatus.
Graham Isaac – It was arguably the last weekend one could go out with minimal guilt. It was the last weekend that felt even close to what passed for normal in a year that’d already seen threats of a Third World War and an entire continent on fire. Folks were washing their hands more frequently but businesses were still open and people were still going out and doing things.
