Promote This is a long-running NadaMucho.com feature wherein we write about songs and videos by emerging and unsigned bands. Send submissions to @nadamucho with hash tag #PromoteThis. This installment includes Kid Hendrix, Sleepology and Tides of Malice.
Cameron Deuel – If music festivals were a sport, Washington state would be the 1992 US Olympic basketball team, posterizing the nation state by state, dunking on bloated homogenized lineups with newer, leaner festivals like Timber! Music Festival, its wintertime doppelganger Timbrrr! Fest, Summer Meltdown, Doe Bay Fest and now Macefield Music Festival.
Jeff Wilson – The always-spectacular Decibel Festival is back this year and taking place September 24-28. Like always, Founder Sean Horton and team are providing the city with top-notch house, techno and groovy beats from the less neon- and drop-focused side of electronic music to Seattle.
Gemma Alexander – When I had kids, I thought my festival days were over, and for many years they were. Then, a couple years ago, I decided to give it a shot.
Cameron Deuel – On Sunday of last year’s ‘Shoot, there was a panel discussion about Barsuk Records, which has arguably functioned as the keystone of Seattle’s music scene (and general mentality) for the past decade, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since.
