Seattle Weekly
As you’re surely aware, this Saturday, The Seattle Weekly’s local music festival, REVERB, will take place in Ballard. The Maldives, the Girls, Champage Champagne, THEE Satisfaction and a whole bunch of other awesome artists will be performing (for the full line-up and schedule, check their website.) While wristbands are already dirt-cheap,the Weekly is giving away six pairs of wristbands, which will get you in to all ten venues participating in the festival on Saturday. Unless you’re underage, in which case you’ll need to let them know so they can get you an all-ages wristband (which still gets you into four venues: Salmon Bay Eagles, New York Fashion Academy, Hattie’s Hat and the Ballard Loft). Just send them an e-mail at giveaways@seattleweekly.com today before 5 p.m. with REVERB in the subject heading and your full name in the body of the e-mail (and the type of wristband you need). Winners will be selected at random and alerted shortly after 5 p.m. on Thursday.
REVERB FESTIVAL LINEUP ANNOUNCED
Seattle Weekly
The Seattle Weekly posted some of the bands playing the festival earlier, but they have now released the complete list of bands who’ll be playing REVERB Saturday, October 3. This year, they’ve added a classy jazz venue, and made sure that four venues are all ages. Performers include, The Maldives, Tea Cozies, GMK, and Heatwarmer. For a full line up follow the above link.
PARTIAL REVERB FESTIVAL 2009 LINE-UP: WALLPAPER, THEE SATISFACTION, THE MALDIVES, AND MORE
Seattle Weekly
The Seattle Weekly’s fifth annual all-local music festival takes place Saturday, October 3 in Ballard again this year, and while they can’t reveal all the line-up details now — everything will be finalized after Bumbershoot– the already announced line-up includes THEE Satisfaction, Fatal Lucciauno, GMK, Fresh Espresso, The Maldives, Recess Monkey, Grynch, the Tea Cozies and more.
LOCAL HIP-HOP CHERISHED BY CHARLES MUDEDE
The Stranger
What the bulk of the great albums of this year have in common is each is organized by a ruling concept. This does not mean they are concept albums, in the sense of Dr. Octagon’s Dr. Octagonecologyst, Handsome Boy Modeling School’s So, How’s Your Girl, and other works designed by Dan the Automator. No, the rappers of the current moment are not playing roles that can be easily discarded on the next concept album. We get strange truths from the concepts made by these rappers/producers—the black Han Solo, Shabazz, the Dro Bots, the Cigar Rock Star. For them, the new world around us, a world that has gone through considerable changes, demands this unified and systematic approach to rap and beats.
THE ROAD WAY: NW ACTS TAKE TO THE HWY
Sound Magazine
New sights, new sounds; that’s what a road trip is all about. And that’s why a good weekend getaway on our states’ highways and byways is an absolute necessity. In that spirit of adventure, Sound took a handful of up-and-coming Northwest musicians on three unconventional road trips to explore the off-beat bounty of Washington and Oregon. Indie folk-pop band the Pica Beats, innovative Seattle emcee GMK and Portland folk songsmiths Horse Feathers brought their favorite road music to share and graciously let Sound’s photographers film the whole escapade. Check out photos and video of each act performing at the Sound magazine website.
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