Live Performance Archive
French, Italian, Mexican and American music are all parts of Cafe Accordion's repertoire, but their newest recording, "Germaine," takes the listener all over the world.
(07/14/2008)
The Cafe Accordion Orchestra's new CD "Cinema", is a tribute to film music ranging from slap-accompaniment to love ballads.
(09/05/2006)
Former Giant Sand members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, collaborated in 1996 and started the electic acoustic folk-world-rock band Calexico, named for the border town in California.
(11/25/2008)
When a new Calexico record comes out, you never know quite how it will sound. The band has been influenced by jazz, folk, fado, French chanson and good, old-fashioned rock 'n' roll.
(09/28/2006)
Camera Obscura has toyed with its expansive sound and size over the last decade, arriving after three albums in a sound that nurtures their delicate lyrics while pushing their pop roots forward.
(06/06/2009)
No, Carbon/Silicon isn't a chemistry lesson about the periodic table of elements. It's a collaboration between The Clash's Mick Jones and Tony James of the Billy Idol-fronted Generation X, which sounds more like dance rock rather than their punk roots.
(03/14/2008)
Brandi Carlile made her stage debut at the age of performing Rosanne Cash's "Tennessee Flat-Top Box" at the Northwest's version of the Grand Ole Opry.
(09/24/2009)
Brandi Carlile grew up in a musical family in a small town outside of Seattle. Her naturally wonderful singing voice must have made it easy to choose a career in music. She could have slid by using just those pipes, but she worked hard to teach herself piano, guitar, how to layer harmonies with other singers and to write songs.
(05/18/2007)
Brandi Carlile performs "What Can I Say," "Down Pour," and "Hallelujah"
(12/08/2005)
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are on a mission to connect old style music and traditional instruments with young people and new sounds.
(01/23/2008)
Children of famous parents sometimes have a hard time adjusting to life in their parents' shadow. Not so for Rosanne Cash, the daughter of the late Johnny Cash. Throughout her thirty-year career, Cash has been a vibrant and engaging force in the country music world.
(11/09/2009)
Laura Caviani performs "Watchin' the Game," "Paper Cranes," and "Supper's Burnin'"
(01/17/2006)
Chairlift's avant-pop music has gone through great transformations since the trio's beginnings writing music for haunted houses when they began in 2006.
(04/21/2009)
Local artists The Chambermaids are lead by sibling duo Neil and Martha Weir. They released their debut self-titled album on Modern Radio Records in 2006.
(08/19/2009)
Kasey Chambers performs "Not Pretty Enough" and "Lost and Found"
(08/19/2005)