Here’s the entire Primavera concert. It’s the 20th Anniversary of Keep it Like a Secret. I was there at ground zero (Seattle) for the release of Secret and then, the next summer, six consecutive nights of long, fiery, triumphant and transcendant BTS homecoming shows with the Delusions (at the time a great live band with …
Here’s two great pieces of video (one posted for the very first time earlier today!) documenting the version of Treepeople that ripped the hell outta Seattle during Silkworm‘s first two years in town (1990-91, during which the two then-quite-unfashionable Idaho/Montana transplants often teamed up for gigs), just prior to my own arrival hereabouts in July 1992. …
This is a treasure trove of streaming recordings of live concerts in Seattle in the mid to late 90s. If you were there, this is a walk down memory lane. The site features classic Death Cab for Cutie, Juno, Built to Spill, Sleater-Kinney, Dismemberment Plan and much, much more… www.indiepoplive.net
In spring of 2001 I developed a ritual. On weekends when my wife, pregnant at the time, was traveling for work, I would sit on our terrace with a cigar and a glass of Knob Creek. The unobstructed skyline view of my adopted city of Chicago provided a more-than-suitable backdrop for pondering questions such as …