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Freakout Fest 2024: Mad Alchemy Analog Liquid Light Show

Photos: Freakout Festival 2024

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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Mt. Fog outside the Tractor Tavern (photo: Lisa Hagen Glynn).

Photos: Mt Fog Album Release

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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Mark Hosler and Jon Leidecker of Negativland, with animation by SUE-C (photo: Lisa Hagen Glynn).

Negativland at Northwest Film Forum

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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Marissa Nadler and Jesse Sykes at Ballard Homestead (photo: Lisa Hagen Glynn).

Photos: Marissa Nadler with Jesse Sykes

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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