Duff McKagan and Shooter Jennings (Photo: Scott Dudelson) Guns N’ Roses bassist/Seattle music icon Duff McKagan has been a busy man lately. In addition to taking part in GnR’s ongoing Not In This Lifetime tour, he found time to work on a new solo record with producer Shooter Jennings. The album, which will be McKagan’s […]
On Monday afternoon, word broke that Paul Allen, one of the co-founders of Microsoft (alongside Bill Gates) had passed away at the age of 65 after a prolonged battle with cancer. His death made waves in the rock and roll community, and with good reason: among other career achievements, Allen helped create the Museum of […]
The name “Chris Cornell” evokes strong thoughts of the ‘grunge’ movement of the Pacific Northwest in the late 1980s and early ’90s — and with good reason. Not only was Cornell the powerhouse vocalist behind Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog, but he was also a product of Seattle. This past weekend, a special […]
Bully may be from Nashville, but their heart is in Seattle. As over-simplified and, probably, obvious a sentence as that might be to describe a band with roots in “grunge” as serious as theirs, it applies. That they’re on Sub Pop Records only drives the point home more. On Friday, the band released Losing, their […]
Meet the Levee Walkers. Featuring Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin, this new project is a product of some marquee veterans of the so-called ‘Seattle Sound’. McCready and Martin, after all, were key contributors in Mad Season, the ’90s super group featuring late Alice […]
Sir Paul McCartney‘s new One On One tour is off an an eventful start. Macca kicked off the trek with a bang last week, performing some Beatles songs he’d never previously played live as a solo act. This past weekend’s tour stop in Seattle featured another noteworthy moment with Krist Novoselic, bassist of Nirvana, joined McCartney […]
Seattle alt/rock outfit Candlebox are gearing up to release a new album, and on Tuesday they premiered another song from it. Below, listen to I’ve Got a Gun, a catchy, engaging tune with shredding guitars and pointed lyrics concerning, as its title may suggest, gun control: The band’s new album, Disappearing in Airports, will be out […]
Seattle-based rock outfit Candlebox announced this week that they will release a new album, Disappearing in Airports, on April 22. Here’s the album’s lead single, Vexatious – which premiered earlier in the month: If their name sounds familiar, Candlebox is responsible for the hit 1994 single Far Behind, which was a staple of FM radio […]
In a lengthy and personal new interview with VICE, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament opens up about his efforts and help in opening up skate parks in Montana and South Dakota. Ament, a lifelong skateboarding enthusiast, spends thousands of dollars to help facilitate new parks when he can. In the interview, Ament touches on the […]
On Sunday, Seattle’s Pike Place Market was the place to be. That’s where some luminaries from the grunge/alternative world convened as Raw Power, a tribute act playing songs by Iggy & the Stooges. The 30-minute set was put on by Seattle’s KEXP, and resulted in some pretty fun jamming from Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready, Guns […]
