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 […]
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2023-10-10 Hardly Raining British shoegaze pioneers Slowdive played Showbox SoDo on October 10, 2023. More than three decades after their debut, the group continues to enchant with layers of jangly guitar, plodding drums, dreamy vocals, and devastating emotional swells. Personnel include Neil Halstead (vocals, guitar), Rachel Goswell (vocals, keys), Christian Savill (guitar), Simon Scott (drums,
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2023-10-08 Hardly Raining Hundreds gathered in Volunteer Park for the Halloween Pet Parade on October 8, 2023. The Volunteer Park Trust sponsored the annual event. Held in the lawn outside the Seattle Asian Art Museum, the event featured live music by the 8 Bit Brass Band, pet-related vendors, a costume contest, and a brief parade
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2023-9-22 Hardly Raining Kinski (Seattle), Sun Atoms (Portland), and The Purrs (Seattle) played The Sunset on September 22, 2023. See the gallery below. Gallery: Kinski, Sun Atoms, The Purrs
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2023-10-04 Hardly Raining The 35th annual Earshot Jazz Festival begins on Friday, October 6, 2023. The nearly month-long festival will offer live performances across the jazz spectrum. Concerts will take place in venues throughout Seattle, and some will also be live-streamed. Headliners include Hiromi’s Sonicwonder, The Bad Plus & Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, säje, Sona Jobarteh,
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2023-08-25 Hardly Raining THING Festival returned to Fort Worden for its third year on August 25-27, 2023. The nonprofit Seattle Theatre Group and Sasquatch! founder Adam Zacks produced the event. Overview The three-day festival featured a worldwide selection of musical artists, with an emphasis upon the U.S. Pacific Northwest. This year’s headliners included indie-folk Seattle
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2023.09.23 Hardly Raining Protesters rallied in the Chinatown–International District on September 23, 2023 to demand justice for Jaahnavi Kandula. Kandula, a 23-year-old graduate student, was killed by a police vehicle in January 2023. Body-camera footage released this month revealed that a Seattle Police Department officer had made callous remarks about Kandula’s death, prompting local and
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2023-08-25–27 Hardly Raining The third THING Festival takes place in Port Townsend on August 25-27, 2023. Based at Fort Worden, the three-day event features “music & arts & other things.” (For an overview, read last year’s festival review.) Headliners include indie-folk Seattle natives Fleet Foxes, Atlanta hip-hop artist Lil Yachty, electropop duo Sylvan Esso, R&B
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2023-08-17 Hardly Raining Seattle natives vocalist Sara Gazarek and trumpeter Thomas Marriott closed out the 2023 Summer Series at the Amphitheater. The series featured six free outdoor concerts in Seattle’s Volunteer Park. Gazarek’s group included a NYC lineup of Julian Shore (piano), Matt Aranoff (bass), and Jared Schonig (drums), along with special guest Tatum Greenblatt
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2023-07-12 Hardly Raining Seattle Americana group The Dusty 45s performed at Nectar Lounge on July 12, 2023. The group included Billy Joe Huels (vocals, guitar, trumpet), Robin Cady (bass), Kohen Burrill (drums), and Rod Cook (guitar). DJ Sean Jewell spun country records between live sets. Sponsored by Elysian Brewing, the event was free to attendees
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