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Bumbershoot / Bumbershoot '24 / Featured

Bumbershoot 2024: 12 must-see locals

August 14, 2024August 14, 2024 - by Travis Hay

A preview of a dozen Seattle area bands that will be taking the stage during Bumbershoot 2024.

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Featured

Ten must-own bootleg vinyl records

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024 - by Travis Hay

A list of bootleg vinyl that’s well worth hunting for at your local record shop.

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Featured / News / Seattle Icons

Listen to new music from Jerry Cantrell

August 2, 2024August 2, 2024 - by Travis Hay

The song, “Villified,” is the first single off Cantrell’s upcoming album “I Want Blood.”

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Concert photos / Featured / Photos

PHOTOS: The Hold Steady @ the Crocodile 06.01.24

June 5, 2024June 5, 2024 - by Brittney Bush Bollay

The Hold Steady are a well-oiled rock ‘n’ roll machine and they know what the crowd wants and when to give it to them.

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Featured / Seattle Icons

Pearl Jam proves there’s no place like home during Climate Pledge Arena concerts

June 4, 2024June 4, 2024 - by Travis Hay

Seattle’s greatest dad rock band delivered two of the most impressive sets it has played in Seattle in its long, storied relationship with the Emerald City.

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Bumbershoot '24 / Featured

Pavement, James Blake, Kim Gordon, Freddie Gibbs top Bumbershoot 2024

May 21, 2024May 20, 2024 - by Travis Hay

The festival will feature a mixture of music genres ranging from indie rock icons and hip-hop stars to pop singers and singer-songwriters.

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Editor's picks / Featured / Seattle Icons

Five Seattle albums that deserve the 33 1/3 treatment

April 18, 2024March 11, 2025 - by Travis Hay - 1 Comment

The 33 1/3 series is suffering from a lack of Seattle. Here’s a list of Seattle albums that would be perfect for the pocket-sized books.

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Five albums you need to pick up on Record Store Day 2024

April 18, 2024April 18, 2024 - by Travis Hay

The annual retail holiday will see the release of more than 385 titles. Here are five worth scooping up on Record Store Day 2024.

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Concert photos / Featured / Photos

PHOTOS: Sleater-Kinney at the Showbox

April 8, 2024April 8, 2024 - by Brittney Bush Bollay

Scenes from the band’s second consecutive sold-out show at the Showbox.

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Album reviews / Featured / Reviews / Seattle Icons

‘Dark Matter’ album review: How Pearl Jam got its groove back

March 29, 2024April 19, 2024 - by Travis Hay - 4 Comments.

“Dark Matter” defies the notion of a return to form, instead presenting a lively, reinvigorated sound.

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Featured / News

Drive-By Truckers to play ‘Sothern Rock Opera’ in Seattle

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 - by Travis Hay

Drive-By Truckers are going on a tour where they will play Southern Rock Opera in full and it is coming to Seattle July 2.

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Featured / Live reviews

A final flight for Paulie: Flight to Mars give Paul Passarelli a powerful farewell

March 8, 2024March 10, 2024 - by Travis Hay - 1 Comment

Flight to Mars, the band Paul Passarelli fronted for more than a decade, brought together friends and fans to pay pay honor to Passarelli.

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Editor’s Picks

Five Seattle albums that deserve the 33 1/3 treatment

April 18, 2024March 11, 2025

Young love, romance and Given to Fly: 25 years of Pearl Jam’s Yield

December 31, 2023February 13, 2024

Which Seattle bands will be the next Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees?

February 2, 2023March 11, 2025

Chris Cornell on fatherhood & rockstardom

May 19, 2017March 11, 2025

Pearl Jam opens up to fans at intimate ‘Lightning Bolt’ Town Hall

October 7, 2013January 15, 2020

Discovering Nirvana’s lost treasures long after the band is gone

November 6, 2009September 7, 2018

Favorite Interviews

Getting RNDM: An interview with Jeff Ament

October 29, 2012September 6, 2018

Craig Finn talks about beer, the Boss & his band

September 27, 2009June 12, 2025

Death Cab’s Jason McGerr talks pyro, touring and The Open Door

April 22, 2009March 11, 2025

Brandi Carlile’s music defies categorization

October 26, 2006March 11, 2025

Interview: Dave Grohl & Rivers Cuomo

October 20, 2005March 11, 2025

Interview transcript: A conversation with Chris Cornell

October 14, 2005March 11, 2025

Robert Smith on the ‘incredible’ response to ‘The Cure’

August 26, 2004September 7, 2018

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