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We’ve posted a W HOTELS Symmetry Live presents LP RECAP of the EVENT page CLICK HERE

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We recently posted on Seattle Twist about an event, linked here, W HOTELS Symmetry Live presents LP, here at W SEATTLE, which happened on 5/10/12, and we extended the invitation to our readers to join us for an evening of complimentary cocktails while experiencing an intimate performance by LP, one of music’s hottest rising talents.

The event was a huge success, and we want to share some of the evening’s entertainment with you. I’ve posted videos of LP‘s set below, and also videos of interviews with LP, legendary rock and roll photographer, Mick Rock, and Michaelangelo L’Acqua, who serves as the Global Music Director for W Hotels Worldwide.

We asked author, Maria Dahvana Headley, to join us for the interviews posted in the videos below. Thank you very much, Maria!   – jd

Here is a sample video I took of LP‘s performance, the whole set is posted HERE!

LP performs Levitator at W HOTEL in Seattle 5/10/12

W HOTELS Symmetry Live presents LP – Recap of the event is HERE.

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Join us for a high-powered concert and Drumline competition featuring nearly a dozen different drumlines from around the state that will be performing at Garfield High School on Saturday May 19th from 5pm until 9pm at Garfield High School located at 400 23rd Avenue.

Featuring the Seahawks Blue Thunder Drumline!

Also appearing and performing, the PNW DRUMLINE!

And joining in with the fun, the Seattle Drum School.

Drumlines from the following schools will also appear in a pounding smack down of snares, quads and bass!

Washington Middle School
Garfield High School
Roosevelt High School
Moses Lake High School
Tahoma High School
Graham Kapowsin High School

Straight from Don the Beachcomber and Tiki Oasis, Thee Swank Bastards visit Seattle on their tour of the USA, bringing their brand of instrumental surf music and West Coast hijinks to Cafe Venus and Mars Bar (609 Eastlake Ave. E.) via Las Vegas, Friday May 11th at 9pm.

…More about the lineup here…

Seattle Twist is very excited about this event!

You are invited to an intimate performance by LP

Hosted by W HOTELS Global Music Director, Michaelangelo L’Acqua

Sip Complimentary Cocktails while experiencing one of music’s hottest rising talents

05/10/2012

W SEATTLE

Doors: 7pm  -  Performance: 8pm

Please RSVP:  wseattle.rsvpevents@whotels.com

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Above: LP at SXSW in Austin, TX 3/17/12  - photo: Phil Butler

This video below is an example of what to expect from an intimate live LP performance

LP, now an LA-based singer/songwriter on the rise, recently performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and was included on Paper magazine’s list of the 20 Most Beautiful People. She is one of Esquire magazine’s Artists to Watch in 2012 and was a breakout performer at this year’s SXSW, creating a buzz playing in clubs and busking on the streets of Austin. During GRAMMY Week in February, LP performed at the One Night Only: A Celebration Of The Live Music Experience — the GRAMMY Foundation’s 14th Annual Music

Coming to shoot the action of LP at Symmetry Live is legendary rock and roll photographer Mick Rock, often referred to as “The Man Who Shot the Seventies.” Rock is perhaps best known for his iconic images of David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, Syd Barrett and Queen. He has also published a series of books including Glam: An Eyewitness Account (foreword by David Bowie) (Omnibus Books, 2006), Picture This: Debbie Harry & Blondie (foreword by Debbie Harry) (Omnibus Books, 2004), and, most recently, Exposed: Faces of Rock n Roll (Chronicle Books, Autumn 2010). His recent subjects include Black Keys, The Gossip, Lady Gaga, Michael Stipe and Kate Moss. For more information, visit www.mickrock.com.

Update: Fantastic! I see from today’s press release announcements that LP will also be a featured performer at Bumbershoot 2012 – Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival this year, September 1 -3, 2012.

…and also that LP will be a featured performer along with Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, and many more great acts at Music Midtown – Atlanta’s Music Festival - September 21 – 22, 2012

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The Atlas Obscura is the definitive guidebook and friendly tour-guide to the world’s most wondrous places. User-generated and editor curated, the Atlas is a collaborative compendium of amazing places that aren’t found in your average guidebook.

And this month, Saturday, April 28th is Obscura Day, an international celebration of unusual places, full of expeditions, back room tours & explorations of the hidden wonders around the world. And Atlas Obscura notes two places in the Seattle area that are weird and wonderful enough to be included in the official Atlas Obscura Day celebration, the Official Bad Art Museum of Art and a tour of the Inscape Building and the Northwest Museum of Legends and Lore.

Tour #1: Atlas Obscura Day at the Official Bad Art Museum of Art, sponsored by Hendricks Gin, a “Gin made Oddly”.

All day is Atlas Obscura Day at Cafe Racer and the Official Bad Art Museum of Art.

Doors open at 10AM Saturday, April 28th. Have breakfast, peruse the Bad Art in the OBAMA, enjoy some “Hendricks Obscure Punch”.

Schedule is as follows:

2:00pm View in amazement an incredible array of bugs, marine invertebrates, isopods and lepidoptera from “Bug Man” Don Ehlen.

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3:00pm Musical performance by Operadisiac, a surreal opera comedy duo that is sure to delight. Can I share a sample video of what you may expect?… How about Operadisiac performing their own version of the Prince classic, Little Red Corvette!

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4:30pm Performance by God’s Favorite Beefcake, featuring Shmootzi The Clod of Circus Contraption fame, with music and sword swallowing and God knows what else???  Eeeek!  Check out JoDavideo’s cool videos of them performing on the very same stage last year right here. I guarantee this music will warm your heart, and scramble your brain, or your money back.

Everyone loves Shmootzi The Clod, because Shmootzi The Clod is so perfectly odd!

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6:00pm (or thereabouts) the Nu Klezmer Army will entertain with their honkin’ versions of old time favorites.

… The hijinks continue until 1am.

Tour #2: Tour of Inscape building and Northwest Museum of Legends and Lore
Peek into Seattle’s past with a tour of the city’s 77,000-square-foot former Immigration and Naturalization Services building, plus a visit to the Northwest Museum of Legends and Lore for rare D.B. Cooper, UFO, and Bigfoot-related artifacts.

Sponsored by Hendrick’s Gin, a most unusual and obscure beverage.

Here’s a Lushy video…

…and here’s a Rat City Brass video taken by Marlow Harris…

…and Natalie Wouldn’t video…

The masterminds behind the local found footage favorite present a show centered around THE KING at the Central Cinema this Thursday 4/5 at 8pm.

Food+Drink+Elvis= Elvis Heaven!

Collide-O-Scope: ELVIS EDITION!
Apr 05, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Central Cinema
Seattle,WA

TICKETS

Kelly Hogan (photo by Neko Case)

Kelly Hogan with Puddles Pity Party at Triple Door

MONDAY April 2nd

Lushy at Vito’s on Madison- 927 9th Ave – Friday March 23rd from 9:00 til midnight

Another great poster art piece by Rod Filbrandt!

A musical edition of the notorious Georgetown Art Attack will be staged on Saturday, March 24 from 5:00 to 9:00 PM throughout the historic Georgetown industrial arts quarter. The Georgetown Music March features more than 20 diverse performances in 20 unlikely locations. This event is free and most venues welcome guests of all ages.

The eclectic line-up features musicians that have ties to the Georgetown community. Rock, jazz, electronica, lounge, punk, bluegrass, alt country, folk and just about everything in between will be heard in spaces along the Airport Way business corridor. Performers include the Tom Price Desert Classic, Panabrite, Bang Sha Bang, Rat City Brass, Moonspinners, Adam Hicks Trio, Spirograph, Faith, Leif Totusek, Steve Kim, Andre Feriante, Rats in the Grass, Earl Brooks, Lonesome Shack, Tamlin, Creeping Time, Dolly Rottens, Aja West, Tony Diaz, Brian Bullock, Kayla and the Dangerous Flares, and more.

Maps and schedules for this early evening event will be available at participating venues including Georgetown Liquor Company, Two Tartes Café, American Pie, Calamity Jane’s, The Firm, Jules Maes, Georgetown Trailer Park, the Stables, Georgetown Records, All City Coffee, 9 Lb. Hammer, the Mix, Via Tribulali, Ground Control, La Catrina, Georgetown Music, and Fantagraphics Bookstore.

The Georgetown Music March is a production of the non-profit Georgetown Merchants Association. For more information on the GMA visit: www.georgetownmerchants.org.

Music Video – Lushy performing “I Can’t Stand It” by Jerry Dammers.
LUSHY is Andy Sodt, Annabella Kirby, Patrick Napper, Shane Peck
Directed by Elizabeth Jameson
Filming and Editing by Nick Stewart

This song is by Seattle band Lushy, on the album “Specialized, a modern take on Specials classics” all proceeds go to the Teenage Cancer Trust.

The idiosyncratic work of Seattle cartoonist Lynda Barry is the subject on a new book by Portland author Susan E. Kirtley. Lynda Barry: Girlhood Through the Looking Glass represents the first comprehensive critique of this influential American artist. Kirtley will present her book – from the University Press of Mississippi’s Great Comics Artists Series – in conversation with Real Comet Press publisher Cathy Hillenbrand on Saturday, March 24, at 6:00 PM at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery.

Kirtley examines the influence of Lynda Barry’s youthful experiences on her diverse creative output through personal interviews and rigorous analysis of published work. Kirtley’s thought-provoking conclusions invite readers to reassess Barry’s body of work though the lens of an often-tormented adolescent girl. Kirtley is associate professor of English at Portland State University. University Press of Mississippi’s Great Comics Artists Series includes critical assessments of the work of cartoonists such as Chris Ware, Alan Moore, Carl Barks, Jack Kirby, Garry Trudeau, and Walt Kelly.

The author will be joined in conversation by Cathy Hillenbrand of Real Comet Press, publisher of Lynda Barry’s first four books. “From Comix to Critiques” was the slogan of Real Comet Press, which is the subject of the current retrospective exhibition at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery featuring original art, graphics, and book works by Lynda Barry, Michael Dougan, Art Chantry, and Ruth Hayes. An informal reception and book signing will follow the discussion.

Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is located at 1201 S. Vale Street (at Airport Way S.) Phone 206.658.0110. This event coincides with the inaugural Georgetown Music March featuring free performing arts presentations throughout the historic arts community.