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Seattle Music 2014: Electronic/Dance
Get your groove on to these local electronic and dance bands
What’s your favorite current Seattle band? If you have trouble answering (or if you draw a blank after Macklemore), we’re not going to judge. But we are going to suggest it’s time to check in with the city’s thriving indie music scene. New local bands are exploring sounds, blurring genre boundaries (though we’ve wrestled them…
All Fired Up in Pioneer Square for the Annual Fire Festival
This super hot fest celebrates the history of Seattle’s oldest neighborhood
The annual Pioneer Square Fire Festival returns to Occidental Square Park August 16-17 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Great Seattle Fire that happened on June 6, 1889. On that infamous day of the most destructive fire in the city’s history, a combustible pot of glue destroyed some 64 acres of the Central Business…
Future File: Fashion First
After a taking a sabbatical during the 2013 season, Fashion First is back on this year in a big way on Thursday, September 11 at Showbox SoDo. Now in its tenth year, this popular runway show combines the most current trends from the region’s best shops (and a few designers) with a worthy cause for…
#Throwback Thursday: Pike Place Market, Then and Now
Celebrating Pike Place Market's 107th birthday
Happy Thursday! The work week is almost over and you’re probably getting a little bit of weekend-itis. Hang in there people and enjoy this Seattle summer day, even if there are too many clouds. This week for #TBT, we’re celebrating the 107th birthday of Pike Place Market (which is this Sunday, August 17). So we…
West Elm’s We Love Local Small Business Grant
If you’re a maker or designer, West Elm is interested in meeting you, checking out your work and considering you as a recipient of a $25,000 small business grant during their We Love Small Business Grant contest. One designer/maker will win the big cash prize, and three runners up with get the chance to be…
Seattle Music 2014: Soul Artists
The hottest bands of Seattle's soul scene
What’s your favorite current Seattle band? If you have trouble answering (or if you draw a blank after Macklemore), we’re not going to judge. But we are going to suggest it’s time to check in with the city’s thriving indie music scene. New local bands are exploring sounds, blurring genre boundaries (though we’ve wrestled them…
Seattle Music 2014: Indie Pop Bands
Shake it to the upbeat sounds of these local indie pop acts
What’s your favorite current Seattle band? If you have trouble answering (or if you draw a blank after Macklemore), we’re not going to judge. But we are going to suggest it’s time to check in with the city’s thriving indie music scene. New local bands are exploring sounds, blurring genre boundaries (though we’ve wrestled them…
Seattle Music 2014: Indie Rock Bands
Add these local indie rock bands to your must-listen list stat
My Goodness Gateway Band: SoundgardenThis heavy-rockin’ band with a grungy metal edge dropped its full-length album Shiver + Shake last summer to much critical success. In a way, their sound is simple, but don’t let the stripped-down guitar and drums fool you. As with similar-sounding rock/blues outfits (The Black Keys and The White Stripes), the…
Seattle Music 2014: Americana/Alt-Country Bands
From Shelby Earl to Star Anna, these are the bands rocking the Americana/Alt-Country genre
What’s your favorite current Seattle band? If you have trouble answering (or if you draw a blank after Macklemore), we’re not going to judge. But we are going to suggest it’s time to check in with the city’s thriving indie music scene. New local bands are exploring sounds, blurring genre boundaries (though we’ve wrestled them…
We’re On a Boat! Listening to Music! On Lake Union!
So… it’s a concert? On a boat… with its own beach? Yes to all.
Local music purveyor Seattle Living Room Shows has teamed up with Lake Union Charters & Adventures to put on an evening outdoor concert on a boat with a deck transformed into a sandy beach. On August 26 at 6:45 p.m. sharp, the intrepid Trek (a car-and-passenger ferry turned leisure zone) shoves off into the evening…
Top Stories from the Week
If you missed one of our best articles from this first week in August, we've got you covered
TGIF! What an eventful week Seattle has had…and there’s more to come this weekend, such as these National S’mores Day events, the Street Food Festival or a pee-themed satire, Urinetown. But in the meantime don’t forget to check out the stories you may have missed during this sunny first week of August. 1. Recipe of…
Must List: Steamrollers in SLU, ‘Urinetown’ & a Dolce Vita Sale
What to do this weekend
Must PressThe Wayzgoose Steamroller Smackdown at SLU Block PartyFriday (August 8, 12 to 6 p.m.) — Twelve teams compete, using a two-ton steamroller to print large-scale posters within a one-hour time limit. See this impressive (get it?) letterpress-printing spectacle at the South Lake Union Block Party this weekend. Must SeeUrinetown Comes to the Balagan Theatre(8/8…
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