Don’t miss Joseph Hein Band tonight at the Niner
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
A couple years back, a friend called and asked if I could help a band traveling through town find a last-minute gig. My band, Harold’s …
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Five Alarm Funk at the Hive
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Get your sweatbands and bottles of water ready, there will be a Five Alarm Funk party next week at The Hive.
The Vancouver-based band of …
219 to host Spokane folk singer Brian Stai
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
For Spokane singer-songwriter Brian Stai, his latest album, “Your Dreams,” was very much a dream come true. Not only did he record with renowned producer …
What’s a Flying Mammal?
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Upon the release of its fourth studio album, the band Flying Mammals continues to blaze a trail unlike anything any other band can boast.…
Too Darn Hot: Looking back over 70 years of Broadway musicals
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Living in and around NYC for much of our pre-dotage life, my 1957 bride and I saw and fell in love with Broadway musicals.
In …
An interview with: The B-52s
Ben Olson
Reader Staff
If you were alive during the ‘80s or ‘90s, chances are you’ve shaken your money maker to The B-52s. From their early hits “Rock Lobster” and …
Junoon: The biggest band you’ve never heard of
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
There are questions we will never know the answers to: Why is there suffering in the world, why does Hawaii have interstate highways, and what …
Local guitar students win national award
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
In a quiet back room of Monarch Mountain Coffee, Larry Mooney is busy cultivating future musicians on his favorite instrument: the guitar.
Mooney has been …
Love songs that save the day
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and with it come the usual dilemmas. Whether the holiday means scrambling for last-minute gifts and reservations, painstakingly …
POAC Performance Series: Fraser & Haas
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Alasdair Fraser has long been regarded as Scotland’s premier fiddle ambassador. Natalie Haas has been described as a “sizzlingly-talented young Californian cellist.” The two of …
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