The lineup for the 2010 Sasquatch! Music Festival will be announced one week from today at the Crocodile during the Sasquatch! Launch Party which will feature Surfer Blood, Atlas Sound and Seattle's own Fresh Espresso.
Tickets for the event are free and can be picked up at Easy Street Records beginning Friday with a limit of two per person, or you can win tickets by listening to 107.7 The End. The launch party will be hosted by Luke Burbank and it marks the first time the festival's lineup will be announced live. I would've gone to the Crocodile to see Surfer Blood simply based off the band's recent show at Chop Suey and the excellence of their newly released record Astro Coast. The Sasquatch! lineup announcement is a bonus.
Everybody's favorite jokester rock trio, The Presidents of the United States of America, released a free track on their Web site today called "Rooftops in Spain." You can get the download by submitting your e-mail address to the widget below and be sure to check out their shows at Showbox at the Market Friday and Saturday nights.
The Seattle Art Museum will host a modern art exhibit entitled “Kurt,” exploring the influence of former Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain on artists. The exhibit is slated to begin a six-month stint on May 13
Below is an excerpt of a review I wrote for Crosscut. You can read the entire review by clicking on the jump.
Alice in Chains is one of the more interesting cases of a major grunge group experiencing post-90s success.
They don't carry a catalog of anthems like Pearl Jam or Soundgarden. They're nowhere near Nirvana's poppy punk-metal hybrid style, and they don't define their genre in the way a band like Mudhoney does. Oh, and their original lead singer died suddenly, replaced by a relative unknown four years ago. All of this points to Alice in Chains being one of the least likely comeback bands from the era of flannel fashion and Neanderthal hairstyles. But they're not only making a comeback, they're cranking out a batch of quality new tunes to boot.
There they were Thursday night (Feb. 4) at the Paramount Theatre, nearly two decades after the g-word was in Vogue, playing to a capacity crowd of rabid fans while supporting a new Grammy-nominated album -- last year's exceptional Black Gives Way to Blue. The album, which lost to AC/DC for Best Hard Rock Performance, was released 14 years after the band's last studio recording.
A new photography exhibit will be opening at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum this weekend.
Titled "Taking Aim: Unforgettable Rock 'n' Roll Photographs," the exhibit features 98 photos from 40 photographers, each capturing a moment in time with pop music icons. I had the opportunity to catch a preview showing of the exhibit yesterday and it is one of the more visually striking installations involving music that the museum has hosted in recent memory.
The exhibit is not just something that will appeal to professional shutterbugs. Some of the images are outtakes from classic album covers, some show iconic musicians having candid moments while others capture the action from the stage. I'll be writing more about "Taking Aim" in the coming days so look forward to seeing some words about the exhibit on Ear Candy and Crosscut soon.
To mark the opening of "Taking Aim," which was curated by Graham Nash, EMPSFM is hosting some great events this week. Here is the list of what will be going down at the museum this weekend along with a few shots from the exhibit itself.
It's been more than a month since Chris Cornell let the world know he is getting his old band back together via Twitter, and since nary a word has been spoken of the reunion plans.
On Jan. 22 a brief e-mail was sent out to those who signed up for the latest Soundgarden news over at Soundgardenworld.com. It reads as follows:
"Thanks to all for signing up. Stay tuned for more details! Loudest of Love - Ben, Chris, Kim and Matt."
The band was rumored to be headlining a night of the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, Calif. but when the festival's lineup was dropped Soundgarden was missing. So what are Ben, Kim, Matt and Chris up to, and when will they make their reunion show debut? I haven't the foggiest idea, but here are a few guesses about what could be in the works for the Soundgarden camp.
Mashups have been quite the rage ever since Dangermouse got a little Jay-Z in his Beatles with the wonderful Grey Album (The White Album mixed with Jay-Z's Black Album) back in 2004. Actually, they were en vogue quite a while before that with artists like Z Trip mixing together artists and genres, but the Grey Album was definitely a landmark for the genre.
Today for Music Monday I recommend listening to another mashup involving the Beatles. This time it's the Beatles and Wu-Tang Clan that are jumbled together and the results are a bit mixed. Check out the mixing of the ODB classic "Got Your Money" with "You Never Give Me Your Money." You can download the entire Wu Tang vs The Beatles album, which is titled Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers, for free by clicking here. And while you're at it, go download the Grey album too. It's free and it's a masterpiece. Also, it's far superior to Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers.
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