Andy Lowe – Austin is a growing city that continually pushed out quality acts and keeps its music venues alive and unsterilized. While Seattle has a great music scene, many venues have shut down or changed for the worst since I started playing the Seattle circuit -I’ve been playing in two Seattle-based bands (Devilwood and The Mighty Dreadful) for the past 8 or 9 years.
Cameron Deuel – Bandcamp is the single greatest music discovery platform in existence because it grants you instant access to an ecosystem of music in virtually every genre from artists around the world. Here are a few outstanding releases from January.
Rachel Bennett – I have always liked Spoon. I grew up hearing their music on alternative radio and their song “The Way We Get By” on iconic TV show The O.C. I even saw them live when I was 15 or 16 years old (but, even though Spoon was headlining, my teenage self was really there to see Passion Pit and Phoenix who opened the show).
Rachel Bennett – The 5th Annual Big Ass Boombox festival was a free, two night mini fest at The Crocodile main stage, back bar, and the new Jupiter Bar in Belltown. The goal of the festival has always been to provide an all-ages space for fans and up-and-coming artists to connect.
Dutch Savage – Acclaimed grunge producer Jack Endino worked with Seattle’s This Blinding Light to create a riff-pop, sludge-grunge, rock ‘n roll EP and it does not dissapoint.
