This past week's 5x5 delightfully careens across genres and decades

I'm going to be visiting Seattle with my family the first weekend of April, and think it would be cool to meet some of my fellow music community nerds who reside in the Seattle area. If anyone is be up for a hangout / meetup at Live On Mars in Cap HIll one of those days, please reply to this post and we'll figure something out. Maybe we'll get more than a couple of people and I'll call ahead and try to reserve a space? Who knows. Even if only one or two people are up for it, I'd love to have an extra reason to pay a visit to the bar and patronize the kind of place that I could only wish existed in the town I live in. I'm planning for either Thursday, April 2nd or Friday, April 3rd - so let me know if you want to join on either day. Depending on responses and schedules yet to be determined, I'll pick a day that works and we'll see who can make it.

Scored a last minute ticket to this show tonight in case anyone is also going. I'll probably do the 1st Thursday Art Walk prior. First time buying an 'authorized resale' ticket at a discount via AXS.

Just wanted to share some love for a favorite, but fairly unknown band, Sour Widows. I'm seeing them tonight for the 3rd time at Black Lodge in Seattle. They're opening for MX Lonely. A friend once referred to this kind of music as "sad music for sad people" which seems fitting. But it's beautiful, and intense live. This is almost two songs in one, but it builds and builds to a powerful crescendo, and then I'm not sad anymore.

I (finally!) saw St. Vincent here in Portland yesterday evening and she was quite fantastic. I do see and enjoy a lot of live music but it was a particularly great show. I've been a fan of hers for a while but have somehow never seen her live - I definitely will do so again.