Albums to anticipate in 2018
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer The many tastes of Sandpointians make it difficult to create a list of this nature that will please everyone. So in the spirit of variety, the following is...
Tagged: music
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 IGA, was playing at...
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 eight have one common...
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 Doug Williams, best known...
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. For one, it’s a...
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 the late 1950s we clapped...
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 “Private Idaho” to the...
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 would chairs look like...
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 teaching a method of...
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 planning the perfect evening...
