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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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2024-09-14 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, and check back soon for the full review!— Note: Unless otherwise
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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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2024-07-20 Hardly Raining Seattle hardcore glam-pop band Beautiful Freaks gave an in-store performance at Easy Street Records on July 20, 2024. The group includes Meg Hall (vocals), James Bonaci (guitar), Peter Bryson (drums), Tony Lefaive (bass), and Cyra Wirth (guitar). Nicolle Swims of Black Ends sat in on vocals. The show was an album release
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2024-07-07 Hardly Raining Jazz Port Townsend returns to Fort Worden State Park the week of July 22-28, 2024. Sponsored by Centrum, the event features a a week-long jazz camp, followed by a weekend of concerts by the faculty artists. Small-ensemble shows “in the clubs” are on Thursday and Friday nights this year, and mainstage concerts at
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2024-06-28 Hardly Raining Singer–songwriters Marissa Nadler and Jesse Sykes co-headlined a show at Seattle’s Ballard Homestead on June 28, 2024. It was an evening of hauntingly beautiful gothic country, set in an intimate arts space within a converted 1920s house. Nadler performed solo on guitar and electronics. Joining Sykes was long-time bandmate Phil Wandscher (guitar,
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2024-06-20 Hardly Raining Krist Novoselic debuted his Bona Fide Band at Easy Street Records on June 20, 2024. Along with the former Nirvana bassist, the group included Mark Pickerel (drums), Kathy Moore (guitar), Jillian Raye (vocals), and Jennifer Johnson (vocals). They played mostly songs from Novoselic’s other bands: Giants in the Trees, 3rd Secret, and
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