KUOW:
The Lonely Forest, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head and The Oregon Donor are Pacific Northwest pop bands finding new fans across the country. Part of their success comes from their prize winning performances at Sound Off. Sponsored by Seattle’s Experience Music Project, the Sound Off competition is a battle of Pacific Northwest bands made up of musicians 21 years old and younger. More than 100 bands auditioned for this year’s Sound Off competition. The finalists will compete this coming Saturday night, March 7 at Sky Church in the EMP building at Seattle Center. Janine Logsdon is the manager of public programming for EMP and a Sound Off organizer. She brought in three recordings from the competition and spoke with KUOW’s Dave Beck.