Brian Jonestown Massacre will be playing the Neptune Theatre Saturday, May 5th, 2012.
Door are at 8:00 PM, Show starts at 9:00pm.
Tickets are $18 Advance and $20 Day of Show
Purchase Tickets by phone 1-877-784-4849
Or by visiting http://stgpresents.org/artists/?artist=1848
All Ages Show/ Bar w/ ID
KEXP, STG and Starbucks join our Seattle-loving hearts to bring you Little Big Show, a new concert series created to benefit our city’s arts organizations.
Four times a year, we find a great band or two, give ‘em the stage at The Neptune and donate 100% of ticket sales to a local non-profit.
(Little show, big effect. See?)
Our first show’s beneficiary is Arts Corps, founded on the belief that all young people, not just those with resources, deserve access to quality arts learning opportunities. We wholeheartedly agree.
Pickwick was formed in 2008 when singer Galen Disston left Los Angeles and relocated to Seattle, Washington. Originally an alt-country group, Pickwick spent the following two years trying to establish themselves in the Seattle Folk scene. Amidst a barrage of similarly minded artists, the band struggled to connect with audiences and was on the verge of disintegration. Around that time Disston heard Sam Cooke’s classic, “A Change is Gonna Come.” Floored by the poignancy of Cooke’s voice, the band began experimenting with music that would allow Disston the same kind of vocal freedom. It was not long before the band had completely revamped their sound. Raised on the rhythm sections of indie rock staples such as Spoon & The Walkmen, this new undertaking led the members of the band to dive deep into the catalogs of the Stax and Motown labels. By combining these two seemly different points of reference, Pickwick was able to cultivate a sound that was more organic and unique to the six members that compose the band. As a nod to music from the past as well as their own love of vinyl recordings, Pickwick has begun to release their music through a series of 45’s that are also available via digital download. The band is currently working on writing material for their debut full-length album, expected to be released in 2012.
To learn more about Arts Corps and the difference you will be making by attending this show, visit http://www.artscorps.org/
Tickest cost $15.00 and can be purchased by phone at 1-877-784-4849 or by visiting http://stgpresents.org/artists/?artist=1831#.
Portland’s Loaded for Bear has released their new full-length album ‘The Exit Carnival’. This sophomore release available in 12” vinyl or in digital form is a dark, piano-centric, baroque-pop cascade of strings, organs, synth hooks, layered guitars, baritone vocals and layered harmony, backed by eclectic beats and bass and baritone guitars. The album and accompanying ep forms a precarious synthesis of classical, post-rock, 60’s brit-pop/rock, electronic/ambient and new wave elements within the crucible of an autumnal Northwest soul that at times seethes with funereal desperation. The LP includes a full album download as well as a 5 song companion EP ‘The Cloak Room.’ All the songs from both the album and ep are available for streaming and download at loadedforbear.bandcamp.com. For more information check out loadedforbearmusic.com and facebook.com/LoadedforBear
Here is the opening track from Loaded for Bear’s The Exit Carnival: Widow Maker
I just emailed Congress to urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation, known as the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House. This legislation seeks to give the executive branch power to conduct slash-and-burn campaigns against websites that allegedly host – or even link to – content that infringes on intellectual property rights. That would “disappear” whole domain names, fundamentally undermining Internet security, and/or choke off their financial support. The Internet Blacklist Legislation puts more sites than ever at risk, effectively upending the DMCA safe harbors that have been crucial to the growth of Internet innovation and creativity.
Even LINKING to sites that have “pirated” content could take NWMB down. Think about that.
Visit: https://eff.org/r.C8A
Don’t let congress drop the SOPA. Haha.
STG & KEXP present Visqueen at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle on Saturday, November 26, 2011.
$11-$13 8:00p
Visqueen celebrates 10 hilarious years as a band with a Thanksgiving-sized helping of their entire catalog.
Rachel Flotard and Ben Hooker, who formed the band in 2001, are announcing Visqueen’s indefinite hiatus. The duo have been inseparable since 1997 and put out three critically acclaimed albums “King Me”, “Sunset On Dateland” and “Message To Garcia”. This is their farewell party and giant thank you to friends and fans that have supported them on their decade-long rock and roll hayride.
STG presents Puscifer at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle on Monday, November 7, 2011.
$21-$46 8:00p
While one might imagine Maynard James Keenan would have enough going on to keep him busy as a frontman with the groups Tool and A Perfect Circle, in 2007 he decided to record an album under yet another name with Puscifer. Described by Keenan as “the space where my Id, Ego, and Anima all come together to exchange cookie recipes,” Puscifer first appeared as the name of a fictional band Keenan fronted in a cameo on the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show in 1995. It wasn’t until 2003 that Keenan actually recorded under the name, when he teamed up with Danny Lohner for a track called “Rev 22:20″ for the Underworld soundtrack, and it wasn’t until four years later that he set to work on an entire Puscifer album. Organized less as a traditional “rock band,” and more as a musical collective in which Keenan could work with a rotating lineup of likeminded artists, Puscifer’s early recording projects featured a large cast of noted musicians, including Tim Alexander from Primus, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk from Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine, former King Crimson member Trey Gunn, violinist Lisa Germano, pop singer/songwriter Jonny Polonsky, and actress and vocalist Milla Jovovich.
Buy Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?pid=7124643
STG presents Baths at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle on Friday, December 9, 2011.
$13-Adv $16-DOS 8:00 P
For mercurial L.A. music-maker Will Wiesenfeld, Baths has been a long time coming. The 21-year-old has spent the better part of his days living amidst “pleasant” and “unremarkable” in the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley, so perhaps it’s due to a general lack of local inspiration that Wiesenfeld’s own work has never fit into a prefab box of its own. Over the last six years, under the handle of [Post-Foetus], Wiesenfeld has gainfully explored the intersections and outer reaches of both electronic and acoustic music. With Baths, his eclecticism finds its greatest focus yet, in a hail of lush melodies, ghostly choirs, playful instrumentation and stuttering beats.
Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?pid=7124923
STG Presents: The Moondoggies
Saturday Dec 17 @ Neptune Theatre $15
STG presents The Moondoggies at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle on Saturday, December 17, 2011.
There is something inherently calming about large bodies of water. In times of emotional duress, standing at the edge of an ocean watching the waves roll in and out, centers the spirit in a way that standing on terra firma cannot. Kevin Murphy (lead vocals, guitar) chose to title the Moondoggies’ new album Tidelands in part because of a remote area outside his old stomping grounds of Ketchikan, Alaska where he used to go to escape from civilization. More importantly, as the sly recurring themes of water throughout the Seattle quartet’s second full-length underscore, these are songs crafted to provide solace, sense, and cause for celebration in a world fraught with turmoil.
STG presents O.A.R. at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle on Friday, February 3, 2012.
O.A.R.’s Wind-up Records debut album, King, marks a new beginning for the band, while also paying homage to their past. It is the seventh studio effort in a career that began with their high school recording, The Wanderer. Bringing back the title character from their first album, O.A.R. takes the listener on a journey to discover that what the Wanderer, and the band members themselves, had been searching for all along, was there from the beginning. As the closing song on the new disc states, a return “Back to One.”
The Seattle band Poland will be performing live at the Skylark Cafe & Club in West Seattle on Saturday, October 8th, 2011 supporting their new album, The Sun and the Sitting Room.
Skylark Cafe & Club
3803 Delridge Way SW
Seattle, WA 98106
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=249059615139520
poland.bandcamp.com/album/the-sun-and-the-sitting-room
Tractor Tavern presents:
Norman Baker & the Backroads
The Crying Shame
The Smoke Brothers
Sunday September 18th
8pm // $6 // 21+
5213 Ballard Ave NW
One of the biggest musical events of the summer in Tacoma, WA, has finalized its lineup, and after parties. Tacoma Hempfest is being held June 25th, 2011 in Wright Park, just North of downtown Tacoma. You can find all the details for Tacoma Hempfest 2011, here:
’80s Invasion will be performing at the Hard Rock Cafe – Seattle on Friday, June 24th, 2011..
Friday, June 24
10:00 pm / 9:00 pm doors
21 and over
$10 advance / $15 day of show
Tickets!
The band was formed by good friends who have spent years touring and recording in a variety of musical settings. We love to play music together and have always had a fondness for the music of the 80s. After perusing our LPs for inspiration, the band put together a list of favorite songs and took up the challenge to become the definitive 80s experience.It’s All About The Details
The synth-based dance music of the 80s is a rich tapestry of sound with layered keyboards, electronic percussion, and highly polished production. There are plenty of bar bands out there playing a rough approximation of those 80s hits. As the saying goes, “the devil is in the details”. The challenge in playing such complex and recognizable music is to painstakingly recreate all the subtle nuances and tiny details. It’s hard to do it really well, and we put immense effort into preparing these songs for performance, tweaking synth patches, programming guitar tones and dialing in the electronic percussion. It has to be right. But that’s what makes the difference between getting it “in the ballpark” and nailing it.
Ellensburg, WA – Ellensburg’s all-ages music venue called Raw Space has started a Kickstarter.com project to raise money for audio and video production equipment. The venue is going to release a totally live record featuring local and regional artists as part of the project.
Artists that have agreed to contribute tracks: Open Country Joy, Red Means Go, Tyrannosaurus Grace, Black Market Revue, Podunk Funk, The Quantum Intellect, and Farko Collective. More to come as we get artist approval!
Samples of some of the audio can be found on the venue’s YouTube channel.
Raw Space’s goal is to provide Ellensburg with a professional all-ages music venue, and to support local and regional artists.
LESBIAN is back! They’ll be bringing Grayceon (SF) with them for three nights of NW BOOM! If you haven’t heard Grayceon, do it right now http://grayceon.bandcamp.com, then come out to the Jinx in Bellingham on Thursday May 5th, Chop Suey in Seattle on Friday May 6th, and Plan B in Portland Saturday May 7th.
’80s Invasion , ’80s Tribute band from Seattle Washington is returning to the Mix to perform a full show of ’80s new wave, synth-pop/crossover and dance music Saturday, March 19th. When ’80s Invasion perform at the Mix it usually turns out to be a fun, crazy party, so if you are in the Georgetown or South Seattle area that night and enjoy dancing to ’80s music, try not to miss this. Hearing this band at the Mix is a great opportunity to catch this music in a live setting. The updated sound system and engineering at the Mix together with this band is a really good combination.
Saturday, March 19th, 2011
The Mix
6006 12th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98108
Tacoma Hempfest and Shock Treatment Management are pleased to announce an open call for entertainers for the 2nd Annual Tacoma Hempfest to be held June 25, 2011. Tacoma Hempfest is a Washington State non-profit corporation which stages an annual full day celebration of the extensive utility of cannabis or hemp, and the social cost of hemp prohibition. The first Tacoma Hempfest in 2010 generated a peaceful crowd of 5,000 in Wright Park, Tacoma on the last weekend in June.
Musical performers of all genres are invited to submit Electronic Press Kits or links to social/musician sites with a selection of sample music.
Variety performers will work in a number of areas throughout the festival site including family, artist and holistic medical areas. Variety performers are invited to send an email of interest, brief description of talent and sample of past work, references, website or other appropriate details. We can imagine face painters, magicians, dance troupes, acrobats, stilt walkers, some of whom would work during stage entertainment, some of whom would provide spontaneous in crowd entertainment during breaks.
Above all, Tacoma Hempfest wishes to portray and include the diversity of cannabis culture. This includes not only arts and entertainment, but also food and merchandise vendors, outreach organizations, healing arts, and industry.
Submission may be sent to Cat@ShockTreatmentManagement.com or Kevin@ShockTreatmentManagement.com. Submissions close on March 24, 2011. Entertainment line-up will be announced April 20, 2011.
Vending information may be found at www.TacomaHempfest.com in the near future.
Northwest Convergence Zone Radio (http://nwczradio.com) will officially hit the web at 5pm today, Friday, Feb 18th! They are looking to bring listeners the best northwest artists, local music news, and great, fun programs!
From NWCZ:
If you are a northwest independent artists (solo, band, etc.) or know some, have them contact us at nwczradio@gmail.com. We’ll let them know how to get their tracks to us so we can get them out there for all of you!
Everyone welcome Raymond Hayden to the NWCZradio fold. Raymond will be hosting a one hour program focusing on the coffee house, open mic and lighter side of northwest independent music. His program will start Tuesday, March 1st at 7:00 pm. Raymond is the head honcho behind Maurice The Fish Records! Welcome Kingfish!!!!
It’s official! The Northwest Music Scene show is coming to NWCZ Radio on Thursday, March 3rd at 7pm. Hosted by Glen, Brian and Shawn…They will be bringing you music and all things northwest music related every Thursday night live from 7 – 9 pm!
Everyone welcome Dave Samson, veteran of KBCS and The Mountain 103.7 to NWCZradio! Dave will be hosting a blues show every Monday night from 7 – 10pm beginning Feb. 21st!!!! Be sure to tune in for the best in northwest blues every Monday night!!!
Everyone welcome Q-Dot to NWCZradio! He will be spinning the best in northwest rap and hip hop on Fridays 6 – 7 beginning March 4th! Guaranteed good times with Q-Dot!!
More shows to be announced soon!
http://www.facebook.com/nwczradio
We are gonna blow the top of off Northwest Radio!
