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• FESTIVAL PREVIEW: AUSTIN PSYCH FEST, CARSON CREEK RANCH, AUSTIN, TEXAS, APRIL 26-28, 2013

  by Marianne Sp April 22, 2013
  For months now, I have been babbling like a STONE COLD LUNATIC to anyone who will listen to me about HOW VERY STOKED I AM to be going to Austin Psych Fest this year! For anyone who loves garage, punk, and psychedelic music, new and old, this festival is absolutely not to be missed -- the lineup is s...

• PHOTOS & SHOW REVIEW: THE INTELLIGENCE, DAYDREAM MACHINE, & PARTMAN PARTHORSE @ CHOP SUEY, SEATTLE 4/20/13

  by Marianne Sp April 22, 2013
  I went to bed last night smiling, I woke up smiling, and am still smiling many hours later. I may look like a DAMN FOOL, but that's what kind of night it was as The Intelligence, one of my very super-favorite bands of all time, played Seattle's Chop Suey club on a drizzly Saturday night. The last ti...

• PHOTOS: WIMPS "REPEAT" RECORD RELEASE SHOW, THE BLACK LODGE, SEATTLE WA, 1/26/13

  by Marianne Sp January 27, 2013
  It is my total pleasure to bring you these photographic images I snared from yesterday night's punk fun at Seattle's Black Lodge while SIMULTANEOUSLY introducing you to the band wimps, if you are not already familiar with their awesomeness. This week the band released their first album, Repeat, whic...

• PHOTOS & SHOW REVIEW: TY SEGALL, NIGHT BEATS, SANDRIDER @ NEUMOS, SEATTLE WA, 12/11/12

  by Marianne Sp December 14, 2012
  It's a good thing Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood is known for its funky diversity, for I had a public moment last Tuesday night. As my friend Kitty and I walked to Quinn's to get a pre-show dinner and meet up with mutual pal Mike, across the street at Neumos through an opened side door BLASTED ...

• PHOTOS & SHOW REVIEW: THEE OH SEES, SIC ALPS, & WIMPS, NEPTUNE THEATER, SEATTLE 10/7/12

  by Marianne Sp October 18, 2012
  In contemplating the evening before me last Sunday as I entered the Neptune Theater, you could say I was confident, if not downright smug that it was going to be one damn fine show I was about to experience. I mean, are you kidding me? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Thee Oh Sees, Sic Alps, and wimps?? Three gr...

• PHOTOS & SHOW REVIEW: BRONCHO, SAILOR MOUTH @ THE SUNSET, SEATTLE WA, 5/26/12

  by Marianne Sp June 2, 2012
  On this Memorial Day weekend, many of my fellow local concert photog friends and music pals made the journey out to the beautiful Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington to experience all that is the mighty Sasquatch music festival. But this little black duck made the trek into Ballard on Saturday ...

• PHOTOS & SHOW REVIEW: X, THE SUICIDE NOTES @ SHOWBOX MARKET, SEATTLE WA, 5/12/12

  by Marianne Sp May 16, 2012
  I sincerely doubt that when the band
 X (John Doe on bass and vocals, Evene Cervenka on vocals, Billy Zoom on guitar, and DJ Bonebrake on drums) began playing together years ago in Los Angeles that they could have imagined that they might be performing to a raucous, sell-out crowd in Seattle in 2012...
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• PHOTOS & SHOW REVIEW: TY SEGALL, WHITE FENCE, THE PHARMACY, & TEA COZIES @ CHOP SUEY SEATTLE, 5/5/12

  by Marianne Sp May 10, 2012
  When I arrived home last Saturday night around 2AM from Seattle's
Chop Suey club, I noticed that not only did my clothes, hair, and camera gear have beer all over them, but there was beer actually 
in my shoes. On my shoes, of course, but also
inside my shoes. This will give you some idea of how "Ci...
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• CRACKED COFFEE, KYP, CRONIN, QUINTRON, KHAN CONCLUSION: BRUISE CRUISE 2012, PART FIVE

  by Marianne Sp March 22, 2012
  Welcome to the fifth and final installment of this year's Popthomology coverage of Bruise Cruise 2012! (Click on these for PART ONE, PART TWO, PART THREE, and PART FOUR.) It's been a month to the day today that I went to the first of the BC preshows in Miami, and I'm already ready to do it all again...

• FRUITY DRINKS, FRITTERS, & F*CKED UP FUN: BRUISE CRUISE 2012, PART FOUR

  by Marianne Sp March 22, 2012
  Waking up on February 11, 2012, I groggily prodded myself to general consciousness and eventually came to realize these things: 1. I was not in my bed at my home. 2. I was, however, in a twin size Murphy bed, suspended about 4' from the floor inside a cruise ship cabin. 3. My cabinmates Rob and Stac...

• DIRTBOMBS, NEON, ELVIS, THEE OH SEES, & ME: BRUISE CRUISE 2012 PART THREE

  by Marianne Sp March 22, 2012
  In Part One and Part Two of Bruise Cruise 2012, I survived (and totally loved) two sweaty, manic garage punk nights of pre-cruise Kickoff Party Shows at The Stage in Miami. But at last...it's time to GET ON THE BOAT! Cabinmates and new pals Rob and Stacy and I packed up our bags on Friday, February ...

• MARTINI SCORSESE, DISINTEGRATING DRUMSET, & ABRAHAM'S ASS: BRUISE CRUISE PART TWO

  by Marianne Sp March 22, 2012
  Continuing on with fab Bruise Cruise coverage from PART ONE, we find ourselves back again at The Stage in Miami for the second night of Kickoff Party shows, and the lineup is KILLAH KOOL: Jacuzzi Boys, The Soft Pack, King Khan & The Shrines, Thee Oh Sees, and Fucked Up. Ohboyohboyohboy!! Having...

• I GOT ON A BOAT & LIVED TO TELL: BRUISE CRUISE 2012, PART ONE

  by Marianne Sp March 22, 2012
  I wasn't exactly the kind of person you'd expect to attend, for a lot of different reasons. I live about as far away as it's possible to get in the Continental United States from the Port of Miami. I have three kids at home, a very large dog, and Adult Responsibilities. My passport expired in 1997. ...

• LITTLE STEVEN, YOU GOT IT WRONG: MY TOP FIVE GARAGE BANDS

  by Marianne Sp March 22, 2012
  It's a curious thing sometimes, how two people who love the very same thing can love it for very different reasons, or even define what it is in very different ways. This isn't the first time I've been poked to action after reading or viewing something musician/actor/radio auteur/record label owner ...
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• THE WOGGLES’ MIGHTY MANFRED ANSWERS TEN QUESTIONS FROM ME AND IS TOTALLY COOL

  by Marianne Sp March 8, 2011
  t is my contention that ever since humans and humanoids have been dragging their filthy knuckles across the ground of our planet Earth, there has been a never-ending debate over what is “cool.” For Neanderthal Cavey McBludgeoner, these discussions would center around loincloth length, degree of hair...