There’s a moment, approximately 10 seconds into Brijean‘s “Get Lost” — the opening track of the duo’s third studio album on Ghostly International, Macro —...
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Vee Hua 華婷婷Returning for the second year since it went on a hiatus from 2020 to 2022, Bumbershoot Festival 2024 took place in Seattle Center over August 31 and September 1 – the Saturday and Sunday prior to Labor Day. Its strong presence of interdisciplinary...
Working through a multitude of mediums, queer POC writer, musician, and artist Bunny Michael creates with an expansive, soul-filled purpose of serving one’s Higher Self. In spring 2023, they released a genre-bending 5-track EP entitled Angels...
With BAD PREMONITION, Canadian Columbian artist Valerie Teicher Barbosa, also known as Tei Shi, returns powerfully with a 6-track EP that heralds her return to self and her origins as an independent, DIY musician. Her first release since...
Brooklyn-based musician John Atkinson is interested in all things energy. A long-time writer and analyst who covers clean energy and climate tech issues, Atkinson is also a prolific musician known for projects such as Aa and East Portal...
Khu.éex’ (pronounced koo-eek; “potlatch” in Tlingit) is a 10-piece intergenerational band whose musical style is fluid, with improvisational prowess that allows them to span genres as wide-ranging as funk and hip-hop to jazz and...
Queer love is on full display in “arayemohenay,” a playful ditty of a jam by Portland-based pop musician Theresa Sweetheart. Shot on cellphones in vertical format, the track’s lo-fi music video serves as a mini-documentary about...
Terence Nance and I leapfrog through time and space. Numerous missed connections and mutual schedule misalignments occur until — two weeks later — we finally manage to get on the phone to speak about Nance’s new record, V O R T E X...