Dave Segal
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Seattle, WA, United States
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Heavenly Pop Hits From New Zealand
The Chills delivered chills at Chop Suey. → Read More
How Seattle Became Willing Slaves to Grace Jones's Rhythms
Grace Jones reminded us why freaks of many stripes worship her during her performance at the Moore. → Read More
Motte's “Plateau” and Ononos' “Bed Peace”
Motte, “Plateau” (Ba Da Bing!) The world's chockablock with singer-songwriter solo artists, so it takes a lot of distinctive skill to stand out. Christchurch, New Zealand violinist/vocalist Motte (aka Anita Clark) succeeds in that regard with her second album, Cold + Liquid, out August 12. The follow-up to her 2017 debut, Strange Dreams, Cold + Liquid is a drone-pop magnum opus of exquisite… → Read More
The Best New Music to Hit My Inbox This Week
A former Minus the Bear guitar player whose big-banger of album was inspired by sobriety, and a Kyiv-born violinist whose sounds defy the descriptive powers of "contemporary physics and fringe scientific research." → Read More
Fremont's New Spot for Psychedelic Go-Go Dancing
Walk your boots on down to Ronette's Psychedelic Sock Hop. → Read More
R&B Legend Booker T. Jones Is Keyed Up for His Victory Lap
Architect of the influential Stax soul sound Booker T. Jones hits Seattle to talk about his new memoir and to play his classic songs. → Read More
The Best New Music to Hit My Inbox This Week
Vieux Farka Touré's “Flany Konare” and Ben Von Wildenhaus's “World Best (Parts 1 & 2)” → Read More
Wear a Mask at Concerts, Please!
Read the room people! → Read More
The Best New Music to Hit My Inbox This Week
Charles Stepney's “Step on Step” and Flaccid Mojo's “Slow Psychics” → Read More
Formerly Demonic Guerilla Toss Become Well-Oiled Pleasure Machine on Debut Sub Pop Album
Guerilla TossFamously Alive(Sub Pop) What a radical transformation New York City's Guerilla Toss have undergone over the last decade. Their output from 2013-2014 reveled in electro-punk chaos and No Wave mania, with plenty of tough grooves and unhinged shrieks from frontwoman Kassie Carlson. Albums such as Kicked Back Into the Crypt and Gay Disco merged early Gang of Four's angular funk and Six… → Read More
A Night of End-Times Yelps
The London band Squid impressed at the Crocodile on Tuesday. → Read More
Todd Haynes Loaded His New Velvet Underground Doc with A Lot of Stimuli
So watch it at least twice. → Read More
What Pandemic? Osees Deliver a Night of Fast-Twitch, Scorched-Earth Rock at Neumos
Thee Oh Sees · Levitation Sessions Vol. II (Live)Except for the masks and vax passports, it seemed like old times at Neumos Sunday night. A sold-out show headlined by Osees, the LA rock juggernaut led by heavily tatted workaholic John Dwyer, garbed in his trademark form-fitting tanktop and shorts, going full-on scorched earth from the get-go? Hell yeah, bring it on! (Whoever played old… → Read More
All You Need Is Lube
After nearly 1.5 years of enforced abstinence from live music, American show-goers are, you might say, thirsty for the joy of experiencing amplified bands making sounds on public stages. Live-stream fatigue is real, people. So a strong sense of gratitude among the ~75-percent capacity crowd permeated the Clock-Out Lounge last Friday night for the return of L.A.-via-Seattle underground-music… → Read More
Long Live Almost Everyday Music
A new record store hopes to boost Queen Anne's cultural cachet. → Read More
More Seattle Music Venues Announce Their Pandemic Policies, Plus RSD Is Postponed
More Seattle music venues announce their pandemic policies, plus RSD is postponed till June 20. → Read More
Seattle's High Pulp Brilliantly Juice Up Funk, R&B, and Jazz
From seductive R&B ballads to heady astral jazz, Seattle big band High Pulp find the juiciest essences. → Read More
Psych-Rock Magus David Roback of Rain Parade, Opal, and Mazzy Star Has Died
Psych-rock magus David Roback of Rain Parade, Opal, and Mazzy Star has died at 61. → Read More
Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Loopy Math-Rock of "Sure Shot" from the New Reissue of Polvo's Today's Active Lifestyles
Track of the day is the odd math-rock joyride of "Sure Shot" from the new reissue of Polvo's long out-of-print 1993 LP, Today's Active Lifestyles. → Read More
Sessa's Sensual Grandeza Is a Love Letter to Sublime Brazilian Music
Sessa's stripped-down Brazilian-rock album is a banquet of nonchalant sensuousness. → Read More