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Sound Artist Jake Muir on Field Recording, Sampling, and Video Games
Performing this weekend at Corridor Festival, we take a look inside the artist’s ambient toolbox.
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Arcata’s Ash Borer Make Seattle Inroads on ‘The Irrepassable Gate’
There’s a good reason the black-metal heavyweight’s new record sounds so Northwestern.
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Moksha Fest Marks Both an End and a New Beginning for the Vital Arts Space
The U District boutique is closing with a blowout music fest before reopening in the ID in spring.
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Getting Down at KEXP’s Expansions MLK Unity Party
DJs celebrated MLK Day at the Northwest African American Museum by getting folks to dance.
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Meet Shawn Parker, Tacoma Flex Music’s Fresh New Face
At 20, he’s one of the town’s promising crop of young trap-rappers.
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Premiere: ZELLi’s “Solid” Music Video Brings It Back to the Golden Age
Nodding to the hip-hop/R&B pop divas of the 2000s, ZELLi breathes new life into a classic style.
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An Outsider Artist Takes on the Trolls
How Arrington de Dionyso got wrapped up in a twisted conspiracy theory and how he is fighting back.
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Good Person Recordings on Making Art (Not) For Art’s Sake
Post-Trump, as artists re-evaluate their political efficacy, two punks already provided a blueprint.
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Blackout Dates Be Damned—DoNormaal Dominated 2016 By Doing What She Wants
Flouting industry norms, the rapper played nearly 100 Seattle shows in 2016. The city showed up.
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The Most Underrated Local Records of 2016
Our music critics on the Seattle-area sleeper albums that didn’t get the love they truly deserved.
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A Holiday Wish List From Kevin Sur
The Artist Home co-founder wants a city that thinks and sings, and serves up a decent burrito.
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Typonexus is Bringing Outer Space to Seattle’s Underground
A covert artist is inviting local experimental musicians to flip the Golden Record into new sounds.
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Zahara’s Tender R&B Debut Will Hold You Close This Winter
The Woodinville-born singer’s ‘Efflorescence’ showcases a strong new local voice.
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A Very Mindful Wishlist From Lady Krishna
Capitol Hill’s mystic rocker shares her wants for the season.
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Earth, WEEED and So Pitted Rock the Boats at the Ballard Shipyard
GIFs from Filson Ballard’s very Filson-y launch party.
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Guayaba’s Debut EP Finds Power in Brighter Sounds and Beauty in Alienation
The Afro-Cuban-inspired ‘Black Trash/White House’ is an entomological ode to self-acceptance.
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The Best Local Records We Heard This November
A garbage month. But Bujemane, Guayaba, Moving Pictures, and New Information made it a bit better.
