Hey kids! We’re pleased as punch to inform you that, throughout The Capitol Hill Block Party (CHBP), NadaMucho.com is paying tribute to the iconic festival with a free photo exhibit and daily live performances at Everyday Music, just outside the festival’s gates.
Matt Ashworth – Welcome once more to “41 Bands to Watch,” our annual ritual connecting you –our valued reader— with Seattle’s most exciting underground bands. It’s like the Audubon Society for audiophiles, except we watch bands instead of birds take flight.
Sam Chapman – Laura Marling looks fragile. It’s a Friday afternoon and the sun’s finally shining outside, but at the moment, the KEXP performance space is illuminated by hundreds of small bulbs that dance behind Marling and her band as they play. She wears a skirt and a red blouse- floral-patterned, feminine, borderline frilly. When she speaks, her face placid, she seems thoughtful but reserved. She doesn’t smile much.
Promote This is a long-running NadaMucho.com feature wherein we write about songs and videos by emerging and unsigned bands. This installment includes Basement Surfers, Tim Turner and Tim Held.
The whole time all those yuppies and tech wankers were hobnobbing around Pioneer Square drinking $9 microbrews and watching bands they didn’t really care about, NadaMucho.com’s favorite underground venue Substation hosted a weekend of counter-programmed goodness called Downstream. Bands were encouraged to submit their rejection letters from Upstream!, Paul Allen’s innaguaral “SXSW for the Northwest,” for inclusion and the whole affair had a decidedly counter-culture type of attitude in both the promotion and the programming.
