SMI's Bill Bungard traveled down to SoCal and visit some of our friends at The 2016 NAMM Show. For those of you that may not...
INSIDE OUT is a look from within the Music Industry. (Editorial note: this editorial opinion piece reflects the views of the author alone) Part 1...
For five years, SMI has been bringing fans some of the best local, national and global artists that play live music in and around The...
The annual Woodstick Big Beat at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, was a star-studded drumming spectacle. The event benefits Groove Music For Youth, a charity...
Faith No More are busy touring ahead of their first album in eighteen years, Sol Invictus, due out next month; and their Seattle stop...
Blues-rock and gospel virtuoso Jonny Lang brought his high energy guitar solos and soulful voice to the Emerald Queen Casino, thoroughly rocking and entertaining the ecstatic...
Mr. Motown brought it to Emerald Queen Casino and a crowd of adoring fans on Friday, March 6. Grammy Award winning Smokey Robinson, inductee to the Rock and...
SMI photographer Bill Bungard was as excited as anyone else packing into the Grandstand area at The Washington State Fair to see Chicago and REO...
by Kevin McBride Photos by Bill Bungard What a night to remember – made possible by Joan Osborne and the Holmes Brothers when they brought...
By Kevin McBride Photos by Bill Bungard What a great evening everyone had at Jazz Alley with Ramsey Lewis and Philip Bailey on May 22....
By Bill Bungard Rodrigo y Gabriela finished their ten-city U.S. 9 DEAD ALIVE Tour on May 11 at the Paramount Theater to a packed house...
Intimate CD release listening party at Gene Juarez in Seattle? I’m there! This private listening soiree on April 15 of V. Contreras‘s self titled...