Author: Andrew Hamlin

Temple Canyon celebrates its new album, Fortress, with a record-release party at the Sunset on Friday, August 23rd, with Lonely Mountain Lovers and Afterlife Giftshop. 

What guitarist/singer/songwriter Jesse Dayton hasn’t done in his life, would probably make a shorter list. He’s bringing his solo act to the Tractor Tavern on Friday, August 23rd. Then he’ll travel down to Tacoma for a show at The Spanish Ballroom at Elks Temple on Saturday the 24th, and then return to Seattle on Sunday the 25th at Slim’s Last Chance Saloon.

Roxy Coss celebrates the album release with an all-star local band on Wednesday, August 21st, 7:30 pm at the Royal Room. 

Freedy Johnston blends genres, points of view, anger, melancholy, regret, pride, and longing, into amazing three-minute simulacrums of life as we still know it (for now). 

For anyone who missed out on the ‘90s, Marc Cohn came out of seemingly-nowhere to win the Best New Artist Grammy in 1992, survived Hurricane Katrina, survived getting shot in the head, found the Blind Boys of Alabama (a black gospel group active since 1939) and released an album with them,

The new Dressy Bessy album is Fast Faster Disaster, and they’ll bring their thing to the Vera Project, Saturday, August 24th, with Potty Mouth and Colleen Green. 

The Yacht Rock Revue, assembled roughly around Indiana University, thrives on serving up the sweet stuff to the faithful.  They’re bringing it to Neumos on Sunday, August 4th.

A conjuror of rich, deep, sometimes sinister banjo textures in which ageless haints might be hiding, Kelly Hunt brings her banjos and her songs, to the Conor Byrne Pub in Ballard on Wednesday, July 24th.

His two Abbey Road films, one for Side One, and one for Side Two (including the famous Pop Symphony), show at the SIFF Film Center on the Seattle Center campus, Sunday July 21st through Tuesday July 23rd. 

When reggae was first introduced to the world, it had a unique identity. The players were pure, focused and desperate to air their views of the struggle in our environment. It was organic, yet naive to the industry that would be advertising it around the globe.

The film plays one night only, Wednesday, July 17th, 7:30 pm, at the Seattle Art Museum.  Marshall was kind enough to take some questions, and Dale’s son Jimmy, who often played with his father, also shared some stories.

Teenage wunderkinds The Ocean Blue came in on the tail end of the ’80s and waved that decade goodbye with humor, charm, and deeply-resonating wistfulness.  They’re back with a new album Kings and Queens / Knaves and Thieves, and they’re bringing it to the Crocodile on Thursday, June 27th.

The Lynnwood chapter of the School of Rock schools, presents an evening of Rolling Stones classics, and a few other surprises on Saturday, June 29th, over the city line at Tony V’s Garage in Everett.