STG Presents X Japan, Manu Chao, Avi Buffalo this Fall; Tix on Sale Now

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the following concerts going on sale this week.

X Japan

Friday, October 1, 2010 @ 8:00pm at Paramount Theatre (All Ages).  Tickets are $42.00 not including applicable fees.  Reserved Seating.  Tickets go one sale Monday, August 16, 2010 at 10am and can be purchases online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

X Japan has sold more than 30-million albums, singles and videos, headlined and sold out Japan's 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome 18 times - so far - and has started playing to tens of thousands of fans outside of Japan. Going back to the 1980s, the band's look and sound sparked a global interest in Japanese entertainment, especially with the Japanese cultural rock phenomenon, "Visual-Kei," a movement X Japan pioneered that went on to become a catalyst for today's worldwide Anime craze. X Japan was formed in 1982 (calling themselves X) by Yoshiki and Toshi while still high school students. Over the next 13 years, the band released five studio albums - Vanishing Vision (1988), Blue Blood (1989), Jealousy (1991), Art of Life (1993) and Dahlia (1996), as well as six live albums, 10 compilation albums and 15 video albums. The line up for X Japan is Yoshiki (drums), Toshi (vocals), Pata (guitars), Heath (bass) and Sugizo (guitars).

Manu Chao

October 12, 2010 @ 7:30pm at Paramount Theatre (All Ages).  Tickets are $32.00 not including applicable fees.  General Admission (flat floor) & Reserved Seating (in balcony).  Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 21, 2010 @ 10am and can be purchased online at Tickets.com, in person at the Paramount Theatre box office (M-F 10am-6pm), 24-hour kiosks located outside the Paramount & Moore Theatres, charge by phone at (877) 784-4849, or online at STGPresents.org.

Manu Chao is a musical globalista with a rebel rock'n'roll heart. It's that rock'n'roll he's been making as early as the 1980s as the leader of Mano Negra. His music is multilingual and broadly multicultural, blending rock, reggae, punk, ska, found sounds, and more. The Paris-born, Barcelona-dwelling artist of Spanish descent finds inspiration in street culture and local bar scenes. He has long collaborated with musicians of diverse cultures, as he does in Radio Bemba, the group that has performed with him since Mano Negra disbanded. His latest album, La Radiolina, is Chao's first since the live Radio Bemba Sound System (2002) and his first studio release since Proxima Estacion: Esperanza, which in 2001 topped the European charts and was named one of the best albums of the year by Rolling Stone. Proxima Estacion was preceded by equal fanfare for his debut album, Clandestino (1998).  Clandestino remains one of the best-selling albums in French music history, with more than 2.5 million copies sold to date.

Avi Buffalo
w/ Special Guest The Head & The Heart
November 2, 2010 @ 9:00pm at Neumos (All Ages).  Tickets are $12.00 in advance, $14.00 day of show, not including applicable fees.  General Admission.  Tickets go one sale Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 10am and can be purchased online at eTix.com or in person at Moe Bar. More information can be found at STGPresents.org.

Avi Buffalo was once just the kid named Avi (short for Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg). He's now singing and playing guitar, but was then a vaguely aspirational skateboarder living in Long Beach, who figured between hip trauma and a never-quite-conquered fear of dropping into a half-pipe that he might need to come up with something else to do with the rest of his life. His parents never got around to getting him the Game Boy he wanted, so he turned to a handily local guitar. Years of 12-hour days attacking that (plus lessons-to-mentoring with seriously iconoclastic local blues guys) revealed a pretty preternatural talent for making a very special kind of bent but lovely pop song. 'You know why it's good Because it sounds OLD, but it's NEW!' said Blues Mentor, sparing the world more labored analysis. And that is the connect-the-dots story of how Avi Buffalo became a band-boy meets guitar.