Artist Home Premiere: Sometimes, I Worry by Naomi Wachira

For over a decade, Naomi Wachira has spoken to matters of the heart with an expressive voice and self-penned songs that radiate a warmth that’s almost tactile. Those elements make anything she touches something truly special, so Artist Home is delighted to be premiering Sometimes, I Worry, Wachira’s new EP. The last ten-plus years have…

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Artist Home Premiere: “All Your Mountains” by Long Dark Moon

It’s a busy week for Long Dark Moon. The project, spearheaded by singer/guitarist/songwriter Aaron Starkey of Seattle rock band Gibraltar, debuts their video for “All Your Mountains,” the first single off of their forthcoming full-length. And we’re proud to premiere it here at Artist Home. While “All Your Mountains” showcases many of the elements that…

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Artist Home Premiere: “Flèche” by Eclo

Peter Michel has leveled up his game as a musician, and Artist Home is proud to be premiering audiovisual evidence of that, in the form of “Flèche,” the first video from Michel’s current project, Éclo.  Michel’s name should be familiar to PNW music fans as the leader of the dream-pop outfit, Hibou. Over the course…

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Artist Home Premiere: Get Back by Annie J

Seattle-based Singer Annie J has amassed a dizzying number of credits as a singer over the years, and it’s easy to hear why. She’s deployed her impressive, incredibly nimble voice on a ton of collaborations spanning NOLA-style blasts of jazz (45th Street Brass), electro-pop (Odesza), and some of rock’s most iconic songs (lushly backed by…

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Artist Home Premiere: “Party with You” by Chris King and the Gutterballs

Singer/Guitarist Chris King and Bassist Malcolm Roberts, mainstays of The Gutterballs, want to (wait for it) Party with You. News flash: The world’s enduring an extra-tumultuous time at the moment. Given that unfortunate truth, there’s no way of overstating the cathartic curative power that a great song can deliver. So if a single addresses these…

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Artist 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…

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Artist Home Premiere: “Loser” by Killer Workout

I am genetically predisposed to appreciate any band that names itself after a trashy ‘80s horror movie. Combine that with a snotty, irresistible three-minute blast of a song, and a video for that song comprised entirely of clips from Plan 9 from Outer Space, and you can color me smitten.  You can also color Artist…

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Artist Home Premiere: “Cosmic Fruit” by Low Hums

If I’da heard Zzyxz, the latest full-length from local psych-rock vets Low Hums, closer to its November 2019 release, it might well have found its way into my PNW 2019 Top Ten. It’s that good. Any fan of forward-thinking psychedelic rock will find myriad itches scratched by Zzyxz, big-time. Garage-pop infectiousness (the gloriously heavy and…

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Artist Home Premiere: “Seamstress” by Dark Smith

Danny Denial shocks. The artist is sensational, confrontational and prolific. He’s the type of artist that will be discovered again and again as time’s decades roll forward. While at times he considers himself a lo-fi artist, in reality he participates in its highest forms. For to make something dazzling to look at that lasts years…

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Artist Home Premiere: “South of Sound,” by Lemolo

Anyone who visits this corner of interwebs knows That we’re big Lemolo fans. So Artist Home is proud to premiere “South of Sound,” the second clip off of the band’s new album, Swansea. One of Swansea’s best tracks, ”South of Sound” Is a textbook example of Lemolo singer/songwriter Meagan Grandall’s knack for threading unease and…

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Artist Home Premiere: “Fitcher’s Bird” by Skeleton Flower

For 20 years now, Seattle’s Degenerate Art Ensemble has created performance pieces that combine modern dance, Butoh theatrics, avant-garde free-jazz-tinted music, kinetic sculpture, and experimental video. So when the two founders of DAE—vocalist/songwriter Haruko Crow Nishimura and composer/guitarist Joshua Kohl—formed their band Skeleton Flower, it was a fair bet that the sounds would boast as…

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