Over the course of six years and three albums, singer/songwriter/guitarist Leeni Ramadan has crafted a distinctive musical universe with her band Prom Queen. It’s an environment where Brill Building girl-group pop, surf rock, exotica music, and Patsy Cline country share space—a place where jet-black humor, kitsch, and haunted obsession intermingle like spirals of cigarette smoke….
One aspect of the Artist Home mission is the discovery of new music. While there are a plethora of bands and artists out in the Emerald City ether that the casual music fan has heard of – from Macklemore to Thunderpussy to The True Loves – there are many talented performers a lot of us…
Pieces of Sky by Tomo Nakayama (click here to play Pieces of Sky) It’s 11:30pm in my little mountain town. The smoke hangs just above my head. Ash drifts over the hoods of neighbors’ cars and into my hair like exhausted snow flakes, and I walk down quiet streets saying hello to stray cats while…
One aspect of the Artist Home mission is the discovery of new music. While there are a plethora of bands and artists out in the Emerald City ether that the casual music fan has heard of – from Macklemore to Thunderpussy to The True Loves – there are many talented performers a lot of us…
Conor Byrne, that beloved Ballard pub normally informed by folk and Americana, becomes a hotbed of noir-informed musical intrigue Friday night. Seattle band Hotels takes to the stage, and I won’t mince words: You really should go. Night Showers, the most recent release from the band, wound up being one of my most cherished album…
It may be July, but we’re already planning for winter. Artist Home is now taking submissions for those who would like to perform at next year’s Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival. As with all our events, we have a free submission process that is open to all and we promise to listen and consider every one….
In the scramble to write, record and release music – all with the hope of getting the band’s name out and rising through the ranks to potential stardom and recognition – it’s often forgotten that records, CD’s, tapes and MP3’s are actual documents of history. Each track, each groove is another artifact we could put…
Throughout the 20th Century, if you were a musician, chances are you had stars in your eyes. You wanted the big rock stage, the loud guitar solos, the people screeching and cheering from the audience. You wanted this as you traveled city to city, venue to venue, locale to locale. And, of course, these aims…
It’s almost time for Timber! Outdoor Music Festival, and we want to thank you so much for buying tickets to this year’s event. Whether or not you’ve been to one of our events in the past, please read through this entire email and keep it handy. It has tons of important information that’ll make traversing…
Limbo’s Daughter by Tomten There’s something about hearing a great pop single in the flush of a gorgeous summer day that can crystalize every gold-tinted summertime moment you’ve ever experienced into three or four minutes of sustained bliss. The latest perfect summertime pop song to gently but inexorably insinuate its way into the mixtape that…
Artist Home is proud to announce The Artist Home Record Club. A club created for music lovers, collectors, supporters of independent artists, and anyone looking to deepen their connection to music. Every month, Record Club members receive a brand new vinyl record from one of our favorite independent artists along with a listening guide and other…
It’s really hard not to burst into superlative overload when it comes to Kelli Schaefer’s voice. It’s an instrument of such distinction, power, and nuance that it’s capable of telling stories and painting worlds as readily as an entire orchestral pit of instruments. Those pipes of hers have proven remarkably versatile over Schaefer’s decade-long musical…
