There are very few moments in life when you know exactly what you’re going to get. With so much uncertainty looming in personal lives and the world at large, it’s reassuring that Xiu Xiu...
Read onBefore Mexico City’s Sonido Gallo Negro took the stage at the Nectar Lounge in Seattle, the evening had already been beautifully anticipating their presence. Such anticipation began at the entryway, where the band’s swaggy merch – full...
Still on the first leg of her 2024 national tour, Los Angeles-based British musician Arlo Parks took the stage on March 8, to a sold-out show at Showbox SoDo in Seattle. Released in 2023, The Soft Machine may only be the second full-length album by...
I haven’t even stepped foot into the Snotty Nose Rez Kids show, and I already notice a couple things outside the venue. Clearly, the Indigenous fashion is on-point, with beaded earrings and cedar hats aplenty, and the audience is shockingly...
Headlining multiple days of sold out shows, Jamaican-American musician Masego is partway through his national “You Never Visit Me” tour, named after the single on his latest self-titled, full-length record. On March 18, he took the stage...
Bass greets us before the evening’s performers do. With most of the house lights still off, an introductory hip-hop track rumbles through our bones with its low-end, offering a mysterious introduction of the unpredictable show to come. By the...
It was an emotional return to concerts after over a year of uncertainty surrounding the future of live music. Luna Li and Japanese Breakfast’s second sold out show on Friday, October 1st in San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom seemed to...
By the time I enter the spacious warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Danish-Kenyan movement artist Phyllis Akinyi has already begun her performance. I hear her before I see her. A repeating loop plays overhead, with an off-kilter rhythm and the...