On one level, it s difficult to argue with success. And Rascal Flatts the wildly popular country band that will headline the Tacoma Dome on Sunday has had plenty of that. Concept albums are tricky, but we can be happy that the Tierney Sutton Band has delivered in a gem called On the Other Side.
Sutton, a Grammy-nominated jazz singer with a superb and sexy voice, and her band have delivered a collection of happy songs, some of which could make you cry. They sang the praises of the Lord and fiddled to the devil s two-step at the same time. They strummed about loves lost and some they got back.
Albert Hammond Jr. s solo venture is more appropriate for a sunny day on the beach than inside a crowded New York City rock club. Marilyn Manson?
Fun for the whole family. Slipknot? Practically G-rated.
The band may be called Snow Patrol, but drummer Jonny Quinn might be better served by staying away from actual snow for a while. It all starts with those peepers: sometimes flirty, sometimes intense, but always aware, of the cameras, of the crowds, of the cool. Frank Sinatra and Justin Timberlake, Ol Blue Eyes and New Blue Eyes, singin joes with the world on a string.
It s a formula that s worked well for Audioslave and Velvet Revolver in recent years. The Beastie Boys, Bjork, Interpol, Neko Case and the Arcade Fire are among the biggest names scheduled for the sixth annual Sasquatch music festival, House of Blues announced Monday. When you think concert band you think Sousa, right?
Resophonic guitar ace Jerry Douglas will be among the incredibly talented musicians featured at Tacoma s 14th annual Wintergrass festival. It looks like a guitar with a hubcab where the hole ought to be, and Jerry Douglas might be the best in the world at playing one. Jason Tanz couldn t tell you the first rap song he heard.
But what he can recall, with some clarity, is his visceral reaction. Johannes Brahms took more than 10 years to write Ein Deutsches Requiem, and the piece takes well over an hour to perform. Not so much a Mass for the dead as it is a comfort for the living (instead of the mournful Latin phrases, Brahms selected some of the Bible s most hopeful poetry), it is weighty, layered with meaning.
It s a piece even major orchestras and choruses find challenging. Tim Clement has a guitar, but he doesn t practice it. It s much too useful as a hook for his baseball cap.
The Police are coming to Seattle. A June 6 stop at KeyArena is among dates that the seminal new-wave band a commercial powerhouse in the late 70s and early 80s with a string of hits that included Roxanne, King of Pain and Every Breath You Take announced for its first tour in more than two decades. The Police broke up in 1984, but are reuniting to commemorate the 30th anniversary of their first single, Roxanne, which the band opened the 49th Grammy Awards with on Sunday.
The tour will kick off May 28 at Vancouver, B.C. s GM Place.
Ticket prices will range from $50 to $225. Fans can learn more at . LOS ANGELES The Dixie Chicks completed a defiant comeback Sunday night, winning five Grammy awards after being shunned by the country music establishment over the group s anti-Bush comments leading up to the Iraq invasion.
In the 80s, Nick Harmer and Aaron Stewart-Ahn applied their fledgling filmmaking skills to skate videos, goofy horror shorts and ads for their class presidential bid at Puyallup s Ferrucci Junior High. Metal fans have long debated the appropriate subgenre for filing Cradle of Filth. Are they black metal?
Goth metal? Melodic death metal? You ve got a date.
Check. MIAMI When Prince sat down with the producers of Super Bowl XLI entertainment to make his pitch for playing the halftime show, he had done his homework. The singer/songwriter with the roller-coaster career had analyzed past performances.
He knew what he liked, and he knew what he didn t like. And he had ideas. When you re feeling hemmed in as an operatic tenor, what do you do?
You get into klezmer-Gypsy-Middle-Eastern-operatic-grunge cabaret, of course at least, that s what Portland-based singer Eric Stern did. I had the new Fall Out Boy album Infinity on High in hand. The first thing I looked for was signs of emoverkill, aka those ridiculously wordy emo song titles that often have absolutely nothing to do with the actual lyrics.
The Super Bowl isn t the only major happening in South Florida: The new No. 1 album in the U.S.
belongs to Pretty Ricky, a Miami-bred rap and R B quartet that has gone from being a decade-long local sensation to an unfolding national success story.
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