2024-12-17 Hardly Raining World downtempo group Thievery Corporation returned to the Showbox Market for three nights. (Read about their 2021 show here.) After a show in Sacramento tonight, they will be back on tour starting in February 2025. The band included founding member Rob Garza (production, guitar), Rob Myers (guitar, sitar), Frank Orrall (percussion, vocals), Jeff […]
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2024-12-14 Hardly Raining Seattle’s Tremolo Shoegaze Music Festival returned on December 12-14, 2024. Held at the Central Saloon in Pioneer Square, the festival featured 14 bands over three nights. The lineup included shoegaze, darkwave, psychedelic, and electronic acts, primarily from greater Seattle. Lightgazr provided psychedelic visuals. Click for this year’s official playlist. See Hardly Raining‘s
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2024-11-23 Hardly Raining Seattle supergroup Stargazr played their first-ever show at The Rabbit Box on November 23, 2024. The “celestial soft grunge” band includes Leeni Ramadan (vocals, guitar) of Prom Queen, Billie Bloom (vocals, singing saw) of Von Wildenhaus, Natasha El-Sergany (guitar) of somesurprises, Bree McKenna (bass) of Tacocat, Aimee Zoe (drums) of Loose Wing,
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2024-11-10 Hardly Raining Freakout Festival XII returned to Seattle November 7-10, 2024. The four-day psychedelic music festival took place across eight venues, featuring over 100 bands. Previously contained within Ballard—Tractor Tavern, Sunset Tavern, Ballard Smoke Shop, Conor Byrne, and two rooms at the Salmon Bay Eagles Club—this year’s event added the High Dive and Nectar
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2024-11-06 Hardly Raining The annual Freakout Festival returns November 7-10 at seven venues throughout Ballard and Fremont. Tickets are still available. Click for Hardly Raining‘s previous coverage of Freakout events.
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2024-09-14 Hardly Raining Seattle “folktronica” trio Mt Fog celebrated their album release at the Tractor on September 14, 2024. Ultraviolet Heart Machine is available on Bandcamp tomorrow. Mt Fog will also play shows in Portland on September 20, and in Tacoma on September 21. Opening were Seattle “dreamgaze” band somesurprises, and contemplative singer–songwriter Tiny Vipers
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2024-08-25 Hardly Raining The annual Wiener Dog and Wannabe Races returned to Emerald Downs on August 25, 2024. See coverage of the 2021 event here. The Wiener Wannabe champion was “Ice Ice Lady” (trained by Trevor Schneider of Seattle), who defeated “Arlo the Long Boi” (trained by Jamie Jensen of Auburn) in a photo finish.
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2024-08-11 Hardly Raining STG’s THING Festival returned for its fourth year—this time at a new location in Carnation, WA. Headliners included St. Vincent, Toro y Moi, and Black Pumas, supported by artists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world. See a gallery below!— Note: Unless otherwise specified, all photos taken by Lisa Hagen Glynn
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2024-08-08 Hardly Raining The fourth annual THING Festival returns to western Washington on August 9-11, 2024. Headliners will be St. Vincent, Toro y Moi, and Black Pumas, supported by Spoon, Killer Mike, Stephen Sanchez, Ethel Cain, and Earl Sweatshirt. The lineup includes 30 bands at multiple stages. Presented by the nonprofit Seattle Theatre Group, this
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2024-08-03 Hardly Raining Experimental-music group Negativland played a live set at Northwest Film Forum on August 3, 2024. Negativland includes Mark Hosler, Jon Leidecker (AKA “Wobbly”), and David Wills (AKA “The Weatherman”), who joined by video from his Seattle home. They performed We Can Really Feel Like We’re Here, a collaboration with multimedia collage artist
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