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Welcome Back Sleater-Kinney! (Photos)
By Xander Deccio on February 11, 2015
Ten years ago, one of the most infamous bands in the Pacific Northwest and a staple in the Seattle Rock Scene, Sleater-Kinney, called it quits....
Primus Brings “Pure Imagination” To The Paramount (Photos)
By Xander Deccio on January 6, 2015
When you think of Primus, you think of crazy, bass-driven prog-rock ditties like “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver” and the innuendoed “Wynona’s Big Brown...
The Black Keys Tear Up KeyArena (PHOTOS)
By Xander Deccio on November 26, 2014
Akron, Ohio-based rock duo The Black Keys caused major pandemonium at Seattle’s KeyArena last night. The sold out show which was also being simulcasted live...
Phillip Phillips Closes Out CWU’s Homecoming Week (Photos)
By Xander Deccio on October 25, 2014
American Idol Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips performed to a sold out crowd at the SURC Ballroom at Central Washington University (CWU) in Ellensburg. Phillips...
Ellensburg Film Festival: Actor Craig T. Nelson Comes Back To His Old Stomping Ground
By Xander Deccio on October 11, 2014
Four-time Golden Globe nominee Craig T. Nelson headlined the 10th annual Ellensburg Film Festival (EFF). Nelson appeared at screenings of three of his movies and...
The Vinyl Junkie: Loot Crate and Horror Block (Review)
By Xander Deccio on October 11, 2014
I decided to try something different with my box reviews and feature some pop culture related goods this week. First off, we have Loot Crate;...
Linkin Park, AFI and 30STM Obliterate The Gorge (PHOTOS)
By Xander Deccio on September 23, 2014
This past weekend, people from all over the Pacific Northwest came to witness the spectacle that is alternative metal band Linkin Park. LP brought their Carnivores tour...
Dave Matthews Band Caravan Rolls Its Way Into The Gorge. (PHOTOS)
By Xander Deccio on September 23, 2014
Every Labor Day weekend for the past ten years, the Gorge Amphitheater has hosted the Dave Matthews Band. This year, the band decided to make...
A Look Back At Watershed 2014 (PHOTOS)
By Xander Deccio on September 23, 2014
This year’s sold-out Watershed Music Festival boasted three huge headliners and an impressive support lineup that had “Shedders” flocking to The Gorge Amphitheater. SMI was...
(SMI TV) The Vinyl Junky – The Music Box Review
By Xander Deccio on August 25, 2014
By Xander Deccio Being we have SMI Radio. We are now debuting SMI TV, our new YouTube channel. One of the first series debuting is...
Another State of Mind: Eve’s Plum
By Xander Deccio on August 17, 2014
(Editors Note: This is a new bi-monthly feature debuting here at SMI called Another State of Mind.) In 1991, in the boroughs of New York City,...
SMI Album Review: Eels ‘The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett’
By Xander Deccio on May 15, 2014
By Chris Senn For over two decades now the music of Mark Oliver Everett (Mr. E) has served as the melancholy backbone of the alternative...