Seattle Subsonic:
Every year, the Seattle’s Experience Music Project hosts the area’s biggest and greatest under-21 battle of the bands – Sound Off! Bands from Vancouver BC, to Vancouver WA and from Seattle to Pullman gather in the EMP’s Sky Church. This years event kicks off on February 14th with a series of 3 semi-finals continuing each Saturday of Feb until the culmination where winners gather for the final on March 7th to play for the title. This year, the finals will also include a “wild card” band selected by the fans from a list of each semi-final’s second place winners. Sound Off! is a great venue for getting the community involved in Washington’s young music scene, and for giving these bands the foot-up they need to continue their trek. It’s proven over and over again to be a launching pad for the bands that make Seattle such a viable “City of Music.” Last year’s Sound Off! winners, New Faces, signed to Loveless almost immediately after their performance and already released an album. In the past, other now-known bands such as Schoolyard Heroes, Idiot Pilot, Mon Frere, The Lonely H, Dyme Def, The Lonely Forest and Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head have all battled it out in the finals and into our playlists.