Pacific Northwest Music News & Events
With very few exceptions, the artists we’re supposed to be excited for as headliners seem so scrambled together, like Bumbershoot found them in between the couch cushions while trying to find enough loose pocket change to afford more headliner-worthy performers.
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you can say a lot of things about Capitol Hill Block Party, but you can’t say that it’s not an extremely Seattle event, one which encapsulates the beautiful turbulence of the city’s rapidly evolving and silently warring culture.
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As the most recognizable festivals both regionally and nationwide are steadily beefed up and kept alive by IV’s of liquid gold administered through diamond-encrusted drip chambers, Capitol Hill Block Party’s annual lineups tend to feel like somewhat of a breath of fresh air for their humble, but tempting offerings.
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For as long as I’ve been writing for this website, Bumbershoot, much like Seattle itself, has been in the midst
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The story of the humble inaugural year of any given music festival and eventual rise to the top of the
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It’s not uncommon to find a band nowadays that’s trying to be the band that gives the lowest amount of
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The Seattle anime convention celebrated its 20th anniversary with what was easily their most popular convention to date, and one of their most star-studded.
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With music festivals being at their peak of popularity – and their peak of homogenization – the search for a
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When thinking of bands and individual scenes local to the Pacific Northwest, most people tend to think of Seattle’s and
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That the collaborative magic of two of the EDM scene’s biggest and most unstoppable forces, Porter Robinson and Hugo Leclercq, better known
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Even though just about everyone and their cat seems to be touring and coming to the northwest this year, everything
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(All photos taken by Glen Casebeer.) After the mild disaster that was Bumbershoot 2015 – a festival that tried to
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These annual ‘Artists to See at Certain Festival’ lists are something of a yearly ritual for me, but at times
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I’d never been to a secret show prior to Sunday night, but I’ve always admired them from the outside as
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As I stood casually in the CD section of the newly-reopened Hi-Voltage Records, shyly flipping through the C section looking
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