Amazon’s Alexa bumps Bieber and sings duet with pop star Ed Sheeran on new single ‘I Don’t Care’ Bye bye, Bieber. Take it away, Alexa? Amazon’s voice assistant has demonstrated her singing chops in the past, but this… Read More
Accomplished pianist’s startup Play At Work strikes a chord with music lessons for busy tech workers Lena Begun has been playing music since the age of 5. She attended a school for gifted children in Moscow… Read More
Amazon’s Alexa wins an iHeartRadio Music Award and gives shout out to Wi-Fi in acceptance speech Artificial intelligence is already changing the way we listen to music, and now technology is making a grab for the… Read More
Inside Octave 9, a high-tech venue that lets Seattle Symphony explore the future of music You know you’ve entered a unique space when you can’t stop looking up toward the ceiling in an attempt to… Read More
Mountain Goats take on ‘Dragons’: Longtime band promoting geeky album with Wizards livestream The Mountain Goats are into dragons. Dungeons & Dragons, specifically. The longtime American folk rock band has an especially geeky… Read More
After 2 years, Paul Allen-founded Upstream Music Fest and Summit ‘taking a break in 2019’ The Upstream Music Fest and Summit, created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as a way to showcase diverse… Read More
Geek of the Week: Jillian Garber of Sonos tackles complex problems in software and on rock walls When Jillian Garber was studying physics in college, she learned how to break down and approach problems in general, not just… Read More
Queen’s rock-star astrophysicist Brian May debuts his space anthem for a far-out trip LAUREL, Md. — After you’ve participated in NASA’s New Horizons mission to the edge of the solar system, and written… Read More
Nirvana not smiling after filing lawsuit against designer Marc Jacobs over ‘Bootleg Grunge’ shirt Just when you thought 25 years might be enough time for mainstream fashion designers to forget they ever tried to… Read More
Straight outta Linux: Cloud tech conference KubeCon will feature hip-hop star at ‘Ice Cube-Con’ Will Tuesday be a good day? It will be for those attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Seattle this week if… Read More
‘Bathtubs Over Broadway’ unearths the wacky world of corporate musicals: Where did they go? No fan of Broadway musicals should miss classics like “I Never Enjoyed My Operation More,” “My Insurance Man” and “My… Read More
Seattle Symphony’s immersive Octave 9 space to open in March and feature 24-hour music marathon If you want to completely immerse yourself for a day in a technologically advanced, 360-degree music environment, you’re about to… Read More
Spotify tries its own hand at rocking the vote with midterm elections playlists for each state Voters looking to drown out last-minute midterm elections noise can turn to Spotify for specially curated playlists in every state… Read More
Geek of the Week: From Renton to Carnegie Hall and beyond, Quinton Morris inspires via violin Quinton Morris has performed and taught violin around the world, playing at some of the most prestigious concert halls in… Read More
Paul Allen and the Underthinkers rock the Microsoft earnings call as this quarter’s hold music And the band played on. Just over a week after Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died at the age of 65, the… Read More
Little girl tries repeatedly to get Alexa to play song, before mom launches cute ‘Baby Shark’ attack One of these days, cute Alexa videos will probably jump the proverbial shark. We’re not there yet, because we need… Read More
Geek of the Week: Alexa is music to his ears, but Fred Clarke also conducts business with the Amazon Symphony Orchestra Fred Clarke was a music geek before becoming a tech geek. But now that’s he’s a tech geek at Amazon,… Read More
Photos: High-tech, video-mapping light show turns Seattle’s MOHAI into a pulsating projection surface The purple-hued cranes towering above South Lake Union’s twinkling tech hub — or the glowing Space Needle standing out against… Read More
Amazon to release new Jack White concert film and live EP on Prime Video and Music Jack White, the prolific musician who has released a large catalog of music as both a solo musician and with… Read More
AI merges Amazon reviews for a DVD workout kit with Morrissey lyrics to make one great song A co-worker asked me in Slack for a link to the best thing I’d seen on the internet so far… Read More
Smashing Pumpkins concert in Seattle delights fans around the world thanks to Twitter live stream Perhaps you’ve reached the age where heading out for live music — or heading out for live music featuring the… Read More
Republicans outraged after poster for Pearl Jam’s Montana concert depicts White House burning “The Home Shows” have turned into “The Away Shows” for Seattle rock band Pearl Jam, and with that comes a… Read More
In a sea of social media from Pearl Jam’s first Seattle ‘Home Show,’ images from 2 pros stand out Anyone in Seattle or close to the internet no doubt knows that hometown favorites Pearl Jam played the first of… Read More
Seattle police join lip-sync video challenge with cameo-filled version of Macklemore’s ‘Downtown’ Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they sing for you? From the top of the… Read More
The gift of grunge: Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture to receive Chris Cornell statue from singer’s family Update, Aug. 23: In order to accommodate more fans and expected crowds, the Museum of Pop Culture has moved the… Read More
‘It’s actually my favorite holiday’: Singer Demi Lovato plays to Amazon’s Prime crowd in Seattle Amazon’s latest Prime Day is in the books, and now so is the celebration for employees in Seattle. The tech… Read More
Microsoft throws concert for summer interns in Seattle featuring Pitbull and Julia Michaels Microsoft’s summer interns got more than just a beautiful night at Gas Works Park on Thursday, overlooking Lake Union and… Read More
Pop star Demi Lovato to headline Amazon’s Post-Prime Day Celebration Concert in Seattle Amazon employees in Seattle worn out by the grind of this year’s Prime Day will be able to recharge with… Read More
KEXP and dream team of archivists plan digitization labs to help listeners save their music memories Long before streaming came along and planted a song in your head digitally, music memories were collected on cassette tapes… Read More
Death Cab for Cutie sings a familiar tune about Amazon, the tech boom and changing Seattle Ben Gibbard writes and sings recognizable songs as the lead singer of longtime pop stars Death Cab for Cutie. But… Read More
