2023-11-06 Hardly Raining Now in its eleventh year, the four-day Freakout Festival returned to Ballard on November 2-5, 2023. The psychedelic music event provided an anything-goes experience where you could try a new band or genre, mosh, crowd-surf, or (ahem) expand your mind. Bands appeared on eight indoor stages throughout the nightlife area of the …
2023-11-01 Hardly Raining Seattle’s beloved Freakout Festival XI returns to Ballard November 2-5, 2023. The four-day event emphasizes live psychedelic music and DJ sets. Mad Alchemy Analog Liquid Light Show will again provide trippy live projections. This year’s headliners include Allah Las, The Gories, The Spits, Son Rompe Pera, Sextile, and Jonathan Bree. Many Seattle …
2022-11-13 Hardly Raining Seattle’s Freakout Festival returned to Ballard on November 10-13, 2022. This tenth iteration spanned four nights and six venues, along with a new outdoor stage that featured popular Seattle artists. It was a fantastic lineup from around the world, emphasizing bands from Latin America and the U.S. West Coast. On-brand for Freakout, …
2021-11-11 Hardly Raining The Freakout Festival returned to Seattle in November 2021, after a COVID cancellation in 2020. Held in-person at venues throughout the Ballard neighborhood, the four-day festival featured a diverse lineup of U.S. and international musicians. Seattle label Freakout Records sponsored the event, which included their own artists plus 50-ish others with complementary …
2024-04-06 Hardly Raining Portland rockers Sun Atoms headlined the fourth and final day of Seattle’s Seagaze Festival on April 6, 2024. Held at the Tractor Tavern across two weekends, Seagaze celebrated the Pacific Northwest shoegaze, post-punk, and psychedelic-rock genres. The festival began in 2016. Sun Atoms have performed in Seattle several times, most recently at …
2024-03-03 Hardly Raining The two-day Freakout Weekender returned to Belltown on March 2-3, 2024. The Weekender is a short-and-sweet version of Freakout‘s four-day fall festival, which includes a diverse selection of legacy artists, emerging and established Seattle groups, and bands from Latin America. It offers an ideal opportunity to explore new music. Held across four …
2024-01-26 Hardly Raining The Freakout Weekender returns to Belltown on March 2-3, 2024. The two-day psychedelic mini-festival will feature 20 bands across four stages at The Crocodile building. Headliners include Ty Segall’s San Francisco hard-rock project Fuzz, Chicago indie-rock trio Dehd, Jamaican British vocalist Derv Gordon (of The Equals), Brazilian psych-pop group Boogerins, Los Angeles …
2023-03-04 Hardly Raining The Freakout Weekender mini-festival returns to Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood on March 4-5, 2023. This year’s event takes place at three stages within the recently relocated Crocodile complex. The largely punk-focused lineup features several Seattle artists on the Freakout Records label, along with bands from around the world. The 28 acts include Stockholm …
2024-04-21 Hardly Raining Belltown Bloom returns to Seattle’s Crocodile complex on May 4-5, 2024. Now in its fourth year, the weekend festival features a diverse lineup of women and nonbinary artists. Last year’s bill featured classic punk group L7 and Russian performance-artist activists Pussy Riot. (See a gallery below.) Some major acts are headlining this …
2023-11-05 Hardly Raining Phoenix garage-rockers The Darts played an in-store show at Easy Street Records on November 5, 2023. Sharing the bill were Mexico City punk group Carrion Kids, and Seattle mainstays The Sinister Six. The visiting bands were in Seattle to play the 2023 Freakout Festival. See photos from The Darts at their 2022 …
