STG Ticket Sales for Noah & The Whale & More Go On Sale Today

Seattle Theate Group's mission is to make diverse performing arts and education an integral part of our region's cultural identity while keeping three historic venues, The Paramount, Moore and Neptune, alive and vibrant. STG presents a range of performances from Broadway, off-Broadway, dance and jazz, to comedy, concerts of all genres, speakers and family shows - at these three iconic theatres in Seattle and venues throughout the Puget Sound region and in Portland, Oregon.

STG announces the following concerts going on sale this week:

Noah & The Whale

Special Guest: LP

Friday, September 27, 2013 at 9:00 p.m.

The Neptune (All Ages / Bar w/ ID)

$18 in advance, $20 day of show (not including fees)

General Admission

On Sale: Friday, July 26 at 10 a.m.

Ticketing Information: Available online at Tickets.com, Paramount Box Office, 24-hour kiosks at The Paramount, Moore and Neptune Theatres, or Sonic Boom Records in Ballard. For more information visit STGPresents.org.

Inspiration for Noah & The Whale's latest album, HEART OF NOWHERE, was kindled by the opening two lines of the track "Silver and Gold:" "I was looking for Harvest," it runs. "But I only found Silver and Gold.' In these lines, Charlie Fink, the band's frontman and principal songwriter, found not only a sense of the nostalgia that would permeate this new album, but also an image that embodied the conscious shift in perspective he had recently made - to let go of perfectionism and control, to take a more freewheeling approach to life and to music.

What followed was a process of collaboration, encouraging the rest of the band to contribute more to the songwriting process, and recording the album live, to embrace all of the cracks and scuffs and happy accidents he could. The result is a record that sounds by turns melancholy and withdrawn, and at others flushed and exuberant. But there is a looseness to these songs that speaks of a band full-grown and at ease with its sound.

Mark Lanegan

Special Guest: Sean Wheeler

October 8, 2013 at 8:00 p.m.

The Neptune (All Ages / Bar w/ ID)

$26.50 (not including fees)

General Admission Seated

On Sale: Saturday, July 27 at 10 a.m.

Ticketing Information: Available online at Tickets.com, Paramount Box Office, 24-hour kiosks at The Paramount, Moore and Neptune Theatres, or Sonic Boom Records in Ballard. For more information visit
STGPresents.org.

Mark Lanegan will be releasing his new covers album, IMITATIONS, on September 17, 2013 on Vagrant Records. Lanegan made the following comments on the new album:

"When I was a kid in the late sixties and early seventies, my parents and their friends would play the records of Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Perry Como, music with string arrangements and men singing songs that sounded sad whether they were or not. At home my folks were also listening to country music, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, George Jones and Vern Gosdin were some of our favorites. For a long time I've wanted to make a record that gave me the same feeling those old records did, using some of the same tunes I loved as a kid and some that I've loved as I have gotten older. This record is it. Imitations.

The Dismemberment Plan

Saturday, December 7, 2013 at 9:00 p.m.

The Neptune (All Ages / Bar w/ ID)

$26.50 (not including fees)

General Admission

On Sale: Friday, July 26 at 10 a.m.

Ticketing Information: Available online at Tickets.com, Paramount Box Office, 24-hour kiosks at The Paramount, Moore and Neptune Theatres, or Sonic Boom Records in Ballard. For more information visit STGPresents.org.

In 2003, if you told the members of The Dismemberment Plan that ten years later they would not only be releasing a new album, but their best record to date, there's no way they would have believed you. Since forming in Washington, D.C. in 1993, the band has released four highly acclaimed full-lengths, toured the world many times over, and become one of the most well respected-and indefinable-acts in indie rock. But the past decade has seen their members exploring other areas both inside and outside of music, and even embracing adulthood. However, along the way something funny happened: They reunited three years ago to play some shows to support the reissue of 1999's EMERGENCY & I, and realized their most potent magic had yet to be bottled.

Ultimately, whether the members are controlling robots on a space station or performing live with an enthusiasm that transcends age, The Dismemberment Plan are a special band, and their latest album, UNCANNEY VALLEY, solidifies that as times change and tides shift, this will always hold true.