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Pickwick Preps For Tour with Two Free Concerts

The Seattle soul outfit plays Easy Street and Sonic Boom before hitting the road.

Seth Sommerfeld
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After years of building buzz locally with its fresh soul sound, Pickwick is ready to break out big. The group just landed the gig as the musical act for the Seattle Mariners’ Opening Day festivities on April 8, a spot filled in recent years by heavy hitters like Death Cab for Cutie and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. More importantly, the band’s first full-length album—Can’t Talk Medicine—finally arrives on March 12. (Spoiler alert: We’ve been listening to it for a month and it’s exactly the razor-sharp neosoul record fans have been waiting for.) Pickwick kicks off a West Coast/Southwest tour next Thursday and won’t be home until the end of March—which means Can’t Talk Medicine won’t have a hometown album release show.

But fear not, Pickwick devotees. The band is making up for it by playing two free in-store shows early next week. First stop is Easy Street Records in West Seattle on Monday; the following day Pickwick will play Sonic Boom Records in Ballard. Get there early: The stores will assuredly be packed with people looking to groove.

Pickwick
Mar 4 at 7, Easy Street Records, free
Mar 5 at 6, Sonic Boom Records, free




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Seth Sommerfeld
Seth Sommerfeld
Assistant Editor (Arts) Seth Sommerfeld runs the arts department at Seattle Met, crafting the magazine's On the Town section, editing the Culture Fiend blog, and contributing to reader service features such as “The Ultimate Seahawks Guide” and the front-of-the-book department, Mudroom. Seth has written about music and culture for Rolling Stone, Spin, Pacific Northwest Inlander, Charleston Post and Courier, Syracuse Post-Standard, and Billings Gazette. He also extensively covered the NBA Draft for years for Fox Sports and NBADraft.net, and was published as part of Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology. Originally from Billings, Montana, Seth first lived in Washington while earning an undergraduate degree in journalism and broadcasting at Gonzaga University. He followed up those studies at Syracuse University, where he earned a master’s degree in arts journalism.