To any Portlanders who haven’t made the trek up to Leavenworth, WA—it’s worth it. There’s amazing bratwurst and delicious beer, both local and imported from Germany. Even without a kickass music festival, it’s a fun place to visit. So adding some of the best indie bands to a weekend is kind of a no-brainer, if…
Rachel Angerman, lead singer of Seattle band Hel Mary, possesses one of this town’s most distinctive voices. It resides somewhere between a siren’s song and a low gothic purr, and she can deploy it in the service of narcotic allure, or dark malevolence, with equal effectiveness. Faint echoes of other voices thread through her dusky…
For five years now, Seattle singer/songwriter Nick Foster has been recording hand-crafted, finely-wrought folk songs with an air of disarming ease, and intelligent lyrics that hit home with bracing immediacy. The Glowing Heart, Foster’s 2013 debut, was an ingratiating serving of rough-hewn Americana. He then stripped things down to (mostly) spare acoustic songs with…
“To be honest, I haven’t talked to a lot of people about this yet,” says Blake Madden, co-host of the upcoming dinner party event, The Chanukah Party. “I found out the news about the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh the day before I processed the order for 200 posters in Seattle with a menorah on them.” The…
Three days ago, I received sonic deliverance from the autumn’s cold snap, and from the mundane necessity of my day job. It came through my earbuds while I was en route to work, in the form of a 3.5-minute adrenaline burst delivered—remarkably—by the latest iteration of a rock band formed before I was born. The…
During the holidays, Seattle’s rife with great live shows. And those shows often include bills brimming with sharp local talent. But to stand out from the holiday-themed live music pack, sometimes it’s vital to give an audience something more than just great music. Enter Seattle on Ice, which hits the Neptune Theatre next Thursday December…
Hi Everyone, Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival returns to snowy Leavenworth WA January 25-26, 2019 for another amazing weekend of music, wintertime fun and hot toddies. If you’d like to not just come to Timbrrr! but be part of the crew that helps make the whole thing happen, now is your chance to sign up to…
No, I don’t have some clever post-Thanksgiving angle for this new-release rundown, aside from the fact that I’m damn thankful for these new releases by PNW bands, all of which merit much praise, induce much joy, and should probably be on your Black Friday shopping list. hERON, Desolate Paradise (Concuss Music): I lent an enthusiastic shout-out…
Down North is one of the most energetic bands in Seattle. Fronted by singer Anthony Briscoe, who is known for wearing bright pink pants on stage, the group is a hard working, soul punk machine. Briscoe, who is blessed with an electric voice and shocking amount of energy, is backed by a crew of pinpoint…
Artist Home and LOGE Announce New Partnership with New Opportunities For Artists Artist Home will program live music at LOGE locations across the US in a new partnership with LOGE. Artist Home, NW based producers of music festival events such as Timber! Outdoor Music Festival will present weekend concerts at LOGE locations in Bend, OR,…
You know those gem-like books you find when searching the wooden stacks at your favorite shop, the ones that have some paragraph-length vignette short stories, some spritely poetry and one or two stories that tear your heart out? That’s what the music from Seattle songwriter Debbie Miller is like, too. Miller, who recently had one…
It is Artist Home’s distinct pleasure to premiere the video for the haunting new Patrick Galactic single,”She Lives on the Astral Plane.” I’ve been a fan of space-folk troubadour Patrick Galactic since hearing his great 2016 EP, Running from the Sun. Galactic’s songs split the difference between Americana, glacial electronic music, and melodic psychedelia–Gram Parsons…
