Michael Rietmulder

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Michael Rietmulder |Michael Reitmulder

In the seven months since beloved Seattle music journalist Charles R. Cross died, it’s been hard not to feel the presence of the man who devoted himself to celebrating our region’s artistry and culture at a number of hometown shows teeming with Seattle centricity. Fittingly, the Seattle music community is rallying together for an all-star concert honoring the life and legacy of the esteemed rock biographer and longtime editor of grunge-era music magazine The Rocket.

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Michael Rietmulder |Michael Reitmulder

Apparently, third time’s the charm for one of Seattle’s most storied rock bands. After missing the cut in its first two nominations, Soundgarden is going into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of a 2025 class that includes hip-hop innovators Outkast, Cyndi Lauper, The White Stripes, ‘70s rockers Bad Company, Joe Cocker and Chubby Checker. This year’s class was announced Sunday during an episode of “American Idol.” The 2025 induction ceremony will take place Nov.

3 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Michael Rietmulder |Michael Reitmulder

Amid the annual spring wave of festival and summer concert announcements, one of Seattle’s core music festivals, Day In Day Out, remained noticeably silent. On Wednesday, we learned why. Organizers Daydream State announced that the weekend-long event would not return for its fifth year this summer, pulling the plug after last year’s attendance slipped from 2023.

3 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Michael Rietmulder |Michael Reitmulder

After four pandemic-interrupted years, THING festival organizer Adam Zacks is rewriting the script on Seattle Theatre Group’s annual summer bash — and bending the contours of the modern music festival. Instead of the three-day, multistage event held over one weekend, the intimate, family-friendly music festival will be parceled into several single-day blowouts on the first four Saturdays in August. The lineup still features THING’s signature mix of sonically diverse, indie-centric artists.

3 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Michael Rietmulder |Michael Reitmulder

Sturgill Simpson was supposed to be on the opposite side of the state, playing an arena six times larger than Showbox SoDo — a venue the country star outgrew about a decade ago. Yet there he was Saturday night, cozying up in the comparatively tiny hall for a three-hour barnburner in front of a riled-up crowd who still couldn’t believe they were a Gorge Amphitheatre headliner play a sweaty little Seattle rock club.