Results tagged “themoore”

So yesterday it was announced that Elton John was collaborating with Alice in Chains on their new album. AT LONG LAST, THE WAIT IS OVER. Umm, this makes absolutely no sense for more than a few reasons: 1) Grunge with pianos is a thing now? 2) Alice in Chains is still making music, seven years after their lead singer died? 3) Elton John is still making music, twelve years after Princess Diana died? Consider us officially confused. For the record, Black Gives Way to Blue, complete with Elton tickling the ivories on the title track, will be released September 29th, with a show at the Moore on September 24th.

We've never watched much of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but a lot of people we consider funny like the FX show, so it must be good, right? That's called logic, children. In anticipation of its 5th (!) season, IASiP cast members are doin' it live: The Nightman Cometh, "a live stage adaptation of a fan favorite episode from season four in which Charlie writes a rock opera to woo his longtime obsession, The Waitress." Perhaps you know what any of that means, and if so, you will be excited for the full cast's performance at the Moore Tuesday September 22. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. via LiveNation, Tickets.com, and the Paramount/Moore kiosks.

Last month, The Pixies announced a tour celebrating the 20th (!) anniversary of still-awesome album Doolittle. Today, they announced the North American cities on said fall tour, and Seattle made the cut. No date or venue mentioned yet, to which we say: please two nights at the (real) Showbox or the Paramount. We love you, Pixies, and we lurrrrrve that album, but not enough to see you at the SoDo or Key Arena.

Before seeing Goran Bregović and his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra at the Moore last night, we had been operating under the assumption that he was a musician: singer, composer, arranger, famous lead guitarist, and songwriter from the influential 1970s Yugoslav rock outfit Bijelo dugme, internationally renowned for his work on Emir Kosturica's films. But we were wrong. Really, he's a performance artist.

In today's prog rock news, Yes just put out a press release announcing the cancellation of their upcoming show in Seattle. "Due to unforeseen medical reasons, the 'In The Present Tour,' featuring Yes' Steve Howe, Chris Squire, and Alan White is canceling shows through February 24 (San Diego), including their scheduled Seattle appearance on February 18 at the Moore Theatre. The band wishes to apologize for any inconvenience that this might have caused to their fans and hopes to see them again soon." The aforementioned "medical reasons" seem to refer to bassist Chris Squire's recent hospitalization with an unspecified "medical emergency," though their 2008 40th anniversary reunion tour was also canceled due to frontman Jon Anderson's acute respiratory failure. Sounds like somebody in that band needs to take some vitamin C or something. Refunds are available at point of purchase.

Saturday afternoon MvB is going to talk to a pack of Emerging Critics at the Seattle Rep--and hopefully avoid being panned--before heading to the Moore for Compagnie Heddy Maalem's version of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps. Sunday he's packing for Iceland. Warm socks, etc.

First things first: get thee to Decibel. Even if you think that electronic music's not your thing, there are plenty of acts on the lineup that are easily accessible to even the biggest electro-phobe (see: Sunday's schedule).

THE FRAT ROCK: This Seattlest is originally from a really small town in Central Florida—a part of the country where bands don't really make a habit of "blowing up" nationwide. Sister Hazel is one of the rare exceptions, and they started their career in Gainesville playing the ever-demanding frat rock circuit. We learned about them from our sorority-member sister, because they played frequent bar parties at FSU. Anyway, it's cool to see them all the way out here playing a venue the size of Showbox at the Market. They're not our favorite band, but we've got to give props to our semi-hometown boys.

MEET AN ASTRONAUT: NASA celebrates it's 50th anniversary and sends astronaut Clay Anderson to Seattle! Anderson will throw the first pitch at tonight's Seattle Mariners game against the Minnesota Twins. Don't expect to stay in your seat, as Anderson will be signing autographs on level 300 at the top of the second inning.

If you're planning on hitting up Sub Pop's three-day 20th anniversary celebration, you best be getting those tickets now. Friday's comedy extravaganza at the Moore (featuring funnymen David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Eugene Mirman, and Todd Barry) just sold out, and tix to Saturday's event at Marymoor Park are long gone. That leaves you with two options for Sub Pop-related revelry this weekend: the Gutter Twins and Brothers of the Sonic Cloth at the Showbox Saturday night, or Sunday's Marymoor Park music spectacular, with Wolf Parade, Green River, Beachwood Sparks, Comets on Fire, Red Red Meat, No Age, Les Thugs, Foals, Kinski, Grand Archives, The Ruby Suns, and the enticing wild card of TBA. All proceeds get divided up amongst charities designated by the performers.

Tonight, Das Llamas celebrate their new album Class Wars: K-12 at the Comet. The local rock fourpiece stomp out a little bit of everything, from synthy no-wave punk to dirty electro rock, offering up "a platypus of sound that is a new noise in a new era."

Love it or hate it, there's no denying the commercial success of Kidz Bop. A big hit with the kids, as well as their parents, the family-friendly Kidz Bop series has sold 10.5 million CDs in the past seven years, no small feat in the dying music industry. And to think, all they're doing is taking pop songs (sometimes current, sometimes retro) and adding incredibly chipper kids' vocals to the mix.

Yeah, and it's not just Ani DiFranco, which would be fine with us. We're pretty fond of the solo singer/songwriter thing, particularly when the artist in question can write intellectual poetics and redefine the way their instrument is played. But considering she's touring these days with a killer backup band made up of Todd Sickafoose, Allison Miller, and Mike Dillon, we're kind of looking forward to this show. We're even willing to miss this week's Idol results for this show. Besides, how can you not love songs like this:

Paul Weller may be MIA, but the rest of his first band play the Moore tonight under the moniker From the Jam.

The historic Moore Theatre turns 100 this year. December 28th is their big centennial celebration. We got to thinking about this major milestone the last time we were there. It was last Monday night, the Iron and Wine show. We were sitting in our seats, waiting for razor-shy Sam Beam to take the stage and we got to looking around. As always we were impressed by the high ceiling, grand arches, intricate moldings... Then we...

You begin to see why a girlfriend might leave him. "And how in the world did you come / to be such a lazy love?" he sings with Cat Stevens' flair for passing judgment, or pleads for time with a barbed hook on the line: " Maybe if you slowed down for me / I could see you're only telling / lies, lies, lies."

Last Friday's Broken Social Scene show was a mixed bag. On the one hand, the collective played the songs we love so very very much from their back-catalog along with the new material from their latest output, Kevin Drew's Spirit If and sounded great despite Drew's obvious illness. On the other hand, the show was at The Moore, which had some obvious drawbacks.

Like our high school hero Dan Zanes, we prefer to share "all ages" music with our toddler instead of mind-numbing "children's music." While we are not bumpin' to tales of Jay-Z's unfortunate experiences with his lady friends in various high-priced vehicles, neither are we interested in musical lessons on counting, going potty, and naps.

Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm // Ticketmaster $29-$49 (plus fees)

CIRCUS: Cirque Dreams presents a "Jungle Fantasy," which has nothing to do with Spike Lee. Aerialists, contortionists, vine-swinging characters, strong men and balancers perform in this touring production featuring "special effects, inventive choreography, puppeteering, and dazzling costumes." If you saw Cirque Ingenieux the last century, it's like that, sort of Soleil-lite: a Euro-flavored, theatrical setting for performers much more flexible and coordinated than you've ever dreamed a human being could be. It's "big-top spectacle" that's fun for the "whole family." [See video and photos here.]

Seattlest has an undeniable soft spot for foxy ladies on piano. There's just something genuine and fun and intriguing about the whole scene. Which is why we'll be skipping merrily to The Moore tomorrow night for Regina Spektor.

We are looking forward to seeing Dan Zanes & Friends at The Moore this Saturday with our two-year-old daughter. To get ready for the show, Seattlest spoke with Dan via telephone today about music, kids, and kid's music. We were big fans of his 80's band, the Del Fuegos, when we were in high school and are even bigger fans of his new "all ages" homespun folk-fun-rock.

BOOKS: Suze Orman, Seattlest's unofficial accountant from television is at the Central Library tonight. Mrs. Seattlest refuses to acknowledge that her name is pronounced "Susy."

"Patty Griffin" and "Rock This Town" aren't generally two phrases that go together easily. But, as tree-hugger, festival-going folk fans, by "rock," we generally mean "musically woo," or "melodically enthrall." Which is exactly what Patty Griffin does on her latest album, .

SATURDAY: In addition to talks and tours, you and the kids can see live demonstrations of wood carving, drum-making, and weaving at the Opening Day Celebration for In the Spirit of the Ancestors, the Burke Museum's new exhibit of contemporary Northwest Coast Native art.

SNOW: Alpental got 4 inches at the base Saturday while we were up there, and the snow was light, with plenty of wind fill if you know how to seek out the good spots. We were jealous of our friends staying up in Lot 3, whose alarm clock this morning was the rumbling, gun-shot sounds of avalanche blasting.

SPELLING: Rarely does an adult get to display a skill so mundane as spelling, and rarer still does an adult have an opportunity to engage in feats of spelling in front of an audience and within the context of a competition, but tonight at the Re-bar is just such an opportunity. We're still in negotiations withe the Re-bar rules committee to see if Seattlest's spelling stand-in FireFox 2.0 is eligible to compete.

Wednesday, January 3

Here's to the ice melting away because there are some good shows this week.