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The Best Local Records We Heard This April
This month’s best were messy masterpieces for messy times.
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Upstream Artists and Community Groups Call On Vulcan to Commit to Equitable Development
A new petition outlines four ways that Vulcan can “truly preserve Seattle art, music and culture.”
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Skating Polly Learns Some New Tricks
The band stretches their skills with some help from Veruca Salt on their new EP.
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Pleather’s New EP Deconstructs Pop and Contemporary Seattle
On ‘Tether,’ the mutant pop duo tackles the service industry, Frappuccinos, and a commodified Seattle.
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Record Store Day’s Best Confusing Exclusive Releases
From Toto’s Africa on an Africa picturedisc to Prince’s “Batdance,” we present the best of the weird.
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MoPop’s 2017 Pop Conference Gets Political
Academic music types will gather to chat about house music, tunes in the Reagan and Obama eras, and…
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On ‘Being Here Is Hard,’ Whitney Ballen Sings the Existential Blues
“It’s not a happy album at all.”
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Upstream Music Fest + Summit Reveals All 300-Plus Artists On Its Lineup
With more than double the number of artists than last year’s Bumbershoot, Upstream looks enormous.
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Breaking Up With the U.S.A.
Customs founder Allen Huang is moving to Taipei, but for other locals, leaving the U.S. is complicated.
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Pearl Jam Versus Ticketmaster
The ringside story of the multibillion dollar battle between an upstart band and the rock industry’s high-tech ticket…
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The Best Local Records We Heard This March
Sango, somesurprises and Simic helped us not think about death this month.
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Big BLDG Records Review Roundup, With Roy Rodgers and Western Haunts
Getting mathy and hazy with the local label’s newest releases.
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COSMOS Is Punctuating a Busy Year With an Eclectic New Record
Even though “Moonshine” ranges stylistically, Téron Bell’s lyricism holds it all together.
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A Brief History of Pearl Jam’s Drummers
Rock and roll lore, stoked decades ago by Spinal Tap, would have you believe that the drummer’s stool…
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With Millions of Records Sold, Bellingham’s Soundings of the Planet Are New Age’s Old Pros
After surviving the rocky MP3 era, they’ve found even more success in the world of digital streaming.
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Remembering Jonathan Moore
Looking back on the life of one of Seattle hip-hop’s most vital mentors.
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Ben Verellen’s New “Disneyland-Style” Bar Is Open For Business
The Helms Alee frontman and Verellen amplifier mastermind is venturing into the world of booze with style.
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Dancing in the Darq
GIFs from last weekend’s edition of Seattle’s celebrated QTPOC dance party, Darqness.
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Watch the Transcendent Performance That Won Jason McCue This Year’s Sound Off!
Armed with only an acoustic guitar, the 20-year-old Seattleite was full of surprises.
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Porter Ray’s “Past Life” Video Tells a Story Rooted in Seattle
The video off the rapper’s Sub Pop LP (out tomorrow) features scenes from MLK Way and Lake Washington.