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Your So Dreamy Music Festival Sampler
As AH co-founder Kevin Sur posted in our intro yesterday, The So Dreamy Festival (happening Saturday, June 4 and Sunday, June 5) marks a truly special event. It’ll shine a welcome spotlight on the QTBIPOC creatives bringing richness and genuine diversity to the local scene, even as the music acts deliver the booty-shaking, electric immediacy…
Read MoreSuperCoze’s Cody Choi Launches An Annual LGBTQ and BIPOC lined music festival
SuperCoze’s Cody Choi Launches An Annual LGBTQ and BIPOC lined music festival
Read MoreArtist Home faves bring Art, Music, and Comedy in the Coming Days
Two great live events (slightly) outside of our usual sphere of coverage are taking place in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood later this week. Each involves Artist Home favorites, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t give a shout-out to both. We’ve covered The Spider Ferns, and the artwork of lead singer Kelly Fleek, in these…
Read MoreArtist Home Premiere: The Music Scene, comics by Spencer Glenn
Not everything spawned from social media sucks. Case in point: The Music Scene, Cartoonist/Musician Spencer Glenn’s comics series premiering here at Artist Home. It’s a knowing, good-natured, and very funny look at the denizens of the local music community—and it all started on the socials. Artist Home co-founder Kevin Sur planted the seeds of the…
Read MorePNW Music Maven Finds her Muse in Visual Art
Between her work as lead singer/bass player/percussionist for PNW electro-pop duo The Spider Ferns and as the founder of creative PR firm LoFlux Media, Kelly Fleek’s a well-respected member of the local music scene. And like so many contributors to this region’s musical ecosystem, she’s taken several unwelcome hits thanks to the financial and emotional…
Read MoreA Holiday Gift Guide: Members of the PNW Music Community Sell their Wares
We’re in the thick of the holidays, and despite the dark shadow cast by COVID-19, it’s a sure bet that most of you reading this are eager to gift loved ones (and/or maybe yourself) with something special. The pandemic has induced a lot of people in the local music industry to get creative. And one…
Read MoreArtist Home: Songs of Hope and Healing #2 Video Archive
Thank you everyone who watched our second Songs of Hope and Healing streaming event and especially to all of you who contributed to the artists we showcased who have lost wages during this time. Below is an archive of all the performances along with ways you can continue to give to these artists or the…
Read MoreSix Indie Music Venues on Keeping Their Doors Open (and the Music Alive)
As we detailed previously, small- and medium-sized clubs are increasingly important vertebrae in Seattle’s cultural spine. They are the places where bands hone their craft, build their audience and make a modest income so that they can become household names in the future. There is no Head and the Heart without Conor Byrne. No Thunderpussy…
Read MoreSeattle’s Small to Medium-Sized Music Venues Keep on, Despite an Uncertain Future
Jodi Ecklund lives two miles away from the Clock-Out Lounge, the Beacon Hill music venue she opened a few years ago that provides pizza, drinks and enough room for a small stage, small backstage and space for about 250 people to see a show. Ecklund has made the trip countless times back-and-forth, on-call seemingly 24/7,…
Read MoreArtist Home Premiere: “Cemetery Picnic” by Amanda Winterhalter
One breath and Amanda Winterhalter’s voice stays with you. One whisper and you lean in to know more. Sometimes the mysterious vocalist tells you about life’s little secrets, and sometimes she entreats you to dive six feet deep into the earth for a rendezvous. The second is the focus of our latest premiere! Here, we…
Read MoreYour Ghoulishly Great Last-Minute Artist Home Live Music Calendar
So it’s two days from Halloween. You’ve got a costume. You’ve got the urge to cavort with monsters, demons, and revelers at every level of debauchery known to man. And you want to hear some music. Long story short, there are plenty of ways to fill your musical trick-or-treat bag in this neck of the…
Read MoreJ. Pinder on Working with Dr. Dre in L.A. and Paying it Forward in Seattle
J Pinder speaks smoothly. If his voice were a person walking down the street, that person would be gliding, as if perfectly calibrated for steady movement against all possible pitfalls. J Pinder is also a rapper who grew up in Seattle and later found himself in the throws of Los Angeles working for none other…
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