Vee Hua 華婷婷What some of us might call the Pacific Northwest’s best music festival — and maybe the next and more relaxed SXSW — is Musicfest NW, a multi-day spread across Portland’s best venues. Featuring diverse and exceptional booking...
Seattle’s discipline-defying Bumbershoot Festival is annually packed with everything an art-minded individual could want, from comedy and dance to art installations and music. Our festival preview for 2012 pulls from all areas, but has a minor...
Peter WoodburnMusic, just like any other art medium, beckons an emotional response. Sometimes when we get lost in beats, drum fills, guitar riffs, and lyrical dexterity, we don’t realize it. But at Substrata Festival, all those elements go out the window...
Katie NguyenAll photography by Suzi Pratt except Porcelain Raft, The Lumineers by Jim Bennett When the 2012 Capitol Hill Block Party website became public, many speculated that this would be the LAST Capitol Hill Block Party ever. A cryptic and mysterious...
"Interconnectivity… seems persistently ingrained in Substrata: everything flows and happens in a rather organic manner." -- Rafael Anton Irisarri
Good To Die Records' roster is small, but this 13-track mixtape features heavy-hitters from the Pacific Northwest hard rock scene and beyond.
Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party is upon us again for 2012, bringing some major acts from beyond and local Pacific Northwest acts into the same sweaty and crowded outdoors spaces! See below for the full daily run-down of what you ought to...
Like all good metal bands, the members of Agalloch know how to create atmosphere. Generally, when Band (A) comes Venue (B), A obviously plays in B. But when Agalloch came to The Crocodile in support of their new EP Faustian Echoes, Agalloch turned...