For the second year in a row, BAZZOOKAFEST 2022 returns as a free BIPOC-powered music and arts festival. Taking place at Jefferson Park in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, the two-day event...
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Vee Hua 華婷婷On its surface, PARASAiL-18, the 2022 full-length from experimental solo musician The Growth Eternal, comes across as a smooth, harmonious, and vocoder-laden electronic offering. Beneath its surface, however, one finds a challenging, highly-personal...
Bass greets us before the evening’s performers do. With most of the house lights still off, an introductory hip-hop track rumbles through our bones with its low-end, offering a mysterious introduction of the unpredictable show to come. By the...
It’s the Spring Equinox, and I am at the Showbox in downtown Seattle, surrounded by the excitable chatter of a relatively young, mostly BIPOC audience that is dressed adorably and ready to impress. We are waiting for R&B musician David...
When it comes to the current state of identity politics, Belgian musicians Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul check a lot of boxes of diversity and representation. Both have immigrant backgrounds — with Adigéry being of Guadeloupean and French...
Laraaji, whose name honors the divine energy of the sun, is a radiant personality who often plays up solar influences by dressing head-to-toe in a bright orange color, considered by Eastern yogis and color theorists as symbolic of transcendence. Sun...
Jackie MoffittFor centuries, witchcraft has been the sign and symbol of subversive and liminal pathways in life and art; the focal point of cultural anxieties and repressed dreams. Lately, the aesthetics of witchiness have enjoyed a major resurgence. Showing up...