Travis Trautt – When 4AD Records darlings Lemon Twigs made their Seattle debut at Barboza in January, it was an intimate affair. The crowd assembled for the Tuesday night show was small but committed, clearly fans of the Long Island teen brothers’ baroque-pop.
Travis Trautt – This metal kid had an overwhelming and amazing experience shooting Metallica last Wednesday in Seattle. To start, being escorted into the stadium and seeing the crowd was overwhelming. This was the first stadium show I have covered. When the band started, the place erupted.
Sanae Kato – Earlier this year, Portland indie electronic band STRFKR played an intimate show to a full house at The Showbox in downtown Seattle. Lead singer Joshua Hodges came out dressed in a sparkly blue dress, pink sunglasses and a blonde wig, a nice change from the cape he adorned the last time I saw him perform.
Gary Horn – The CHBP was reassuringly balanced on the last day of the 2017 festival, providing a solid lineup that kept the crowd interested until the very end. While my NadaMucho.com Colleague Ian Bremner got his fill at the two large, outdoor stages, I focused primarily on the dearth of great local bands performing inside Neumos, Barboza and especially the Cha Cha, which seemed to have the market cornered on punk, post-punk and surf rock.
Ian Bremner, Old Rookie – A weekend of sun, music, street food and various amounts of alcohol may sound like absolute bliss, but even for the highly experienced festival-goers, by day three you need a pretty solid strategy to make it through to the headliners.
