Brent Stavig – SMI (Seattle Music Insider)

Morcheeba Electrifies Seattle, while Seattle Electrifies Morcheeba
By Brent Stavig on October 25, 2022
If you’ve been to as many rock concerts as I have, you know the standard procedure: Crowd trickles in, finds their seats, perhaps mingles in...
Brooke Annibale Brings Her Heartfelt Pop To Seattle
By Brent Stavig on July 13, 2018
Thirty year old Pittsburgh native Brooke Annibale has self-released three albums that document her feelings of hope, heartache, and belief, via incredibly well-written songs that...
Rickie Lee Jones astounds at The Neptune
By Brent Stavig on March 26, 2017
It’s only been a year since Rickie Lee Jones last played in Seattle behind her lovely new record The Other Side of Desire, but from...
Joan Armatrading Says Farewell
By Brent Stavig on October 30, 2015
The October evening was filled with the beloved scents of autumn; a wood-burning fireplace somewhere nearby, decaying leaves piling up against damp wooden fences, and...
Dead Men Walking to play Crocodile Cafe May 5
By Christine Mitchell on May 1, 2015
Dead Men Walking appear this Tuesday, May 5 at the Crocodile Café (2200 2nd Avenue, Seattle). Comprised of heavy-hitters Captain Sensible (The Damned), Slim Jim...
Alan Doyle Charms the Triple Door
By Brent Stavig on March 9, 2015
The Triple Door was packed to the rafters on a lovely March 5th evening. Hundreds of fans chatted excitedly, and the air of anticipation was...
Alan Doyle (Great Big Sea) at the Triple Door – March 5th 7:30 p.m.
By Brent Stavig on February 25, 2015
Are you a fan of the band Great Big Sea? If you’re not, it’s probably because you’ve never heard of them. Once audiences experience the...
Raul Midon brings his many talents to Jazz Alley
By Christine Mitchell on September 15, 2014
By Brent Stavig On September 9, Raul Midon came to Seattle to play two nights at Jazz Alley on a trajectory that included living in...
Echo and the Bunnymen return to Seattle at The Showbox (Photos)
By Brent Stavig on August 11, 2014
Seattle was the fifth stop on Echo & The Bunnymen’s thirteen city tour of the U.S., and from information gleaned via the “interwebz” it appears that...
SMI New Album Review: World Peace is None of Your Business by Morrissey
By Brent Stavig on July 19, 2014
Morrissey’s tenth solo album (World Peace is None of Your Business, on Harvest Records) is an odd hodge-podge of studio tinkering, random sound effects, half-completed songs,...
Devo’s Retro-Specto at the Neptune – June 25, 2014
By Brent Stavig on June 30, 2014
I didn’t know what to expect at the Hardcore Devo show. I’d only seen them once back on Halloween night in 1981 at Radio City...
Lennon’s GOASTT – May 22nd – The Crocodile
By Brent Stavig on May 30, 2014
by Brent Stavig It was a swanky eighty-five degrees inside of the Crocodile as we awaited Sean Lennon’s band, (the) Ghost of A Saber Tooth...