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Filed under: Music | Tags: Music, festival, live, seattle weekly, The Stranger, sound on the sound, Seattle Met, Bumbershoot 2011, Q13 Fox
The weather promises to be gorgeous, which is fortunate for those heading out to Seattle Center for the annual 
Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival. For three days, attendees will immerse themselves in music, theater, comedy, dance, visual art and literature. With such a wide scope of acts on the schedule, it’s helpful to turn to our local media for pointers on what not to miss at Bumbershoot this year. The Stranger has an exhaustive guide to the festival with great features on headliners Hall & Oates, metal-influenced rockers Red Fang, soul legend Dennis Coffey and more. Local blog Sound on the Sound picked out the must-see sets by Seattle artists, plus the top five acts editor Abbey Simmons won’t be missing. The culture mavens at Seattle Met Magazine give their top recommendations in each category for all three days at Bumbershoot, as does the savvy staff over at Seattle Weekly. If you’re tired of reading, Q13 FOX has an interview with SSG Music founder Nikki Benson on her Bumbershoot favorites. Whatever you choose to see this weekend, don’t forget to check out the wealth of local talent present in all areas of Bumbershoot this year.
Filed under: Music | Tags: bryan john appleby, Fire On the Vine, interview, local, musicians, seattle, sound on the sound
Sound On the Sound
It’s not often that music fans get the chance to learn about how an artist created the concept of an album or where he/she found inspiration for a song. Sound On the Sound seeks to shed light on this topic with a new video series called “Written Here,” where artists and bands will be interviewed in locations or spaces that inspired the creation of their music. The first subject of “Written Here” is singer/songwriter Bryan John Appleby, who recently released his debut album titled Fire On the Vine. Appleby was filmed in his then-living quarters (a “quirky basement apartment”) and discussed the unexpected muses that inspired the songs for Fire On the Vine.
Filed under: Music | Tags: black whales, sound on the sound, the high dive, the rumble
Sound on the Sound
Listen up all you music loving and/or strapped for cash Seattleites. Tonight the RUMBLE presents another FREE show at Fremont’s The High Dive as part of their monthly showcase series. Seattle’s Black Whales will be headlining the show to “rattle your bones” with garage-psyche-folk rock brilliance. Openers include Deep Sea Diver and The Fling hailing from Southern California. Get out of the rain and into the rays of these bright and sunny bands playing tonight at The High Dive. Click on the link above to check out the Sound on the Sound blog for more details on the show and the performing bands.
Filed under: Music | Tags: Seapony, sound on the sound, the high dive, the rumble, vanaprasta
Sound on the Sound
Listen up all you music loving and/or strapped for cash Seattleites. Tonight the RUMBLE presents another FREE show, this time at Fremont’s The High Dive, moving to bigger venue for their monthly showcase series. Headlined by previously featured Seattle band Seapony, who have been galloping up waves after being signed to Sub Pop sister label Hardly Art. Supported by California’s Vanaprasta, the show is guaranteed to be the indie-noise-fuzz-pop event of the month and definitely worth your dime. Check out the link to the Sound on the Sound blog to learn more about the event and listen to one of Seapony’s shimmering songs.
Sound on the Sound
In our previous Grammy post we forgot to recognize Seattle local Kory Kruckenberg who won a Grammy for “Best Engineered Album, Classical.” Although we will not admit to fallibility, we will say that we left out one of Seattle’s most beloved music makers and masterers. Kory is a Seattle sound engineer and musician who plays bass for Pablo Trucker and is also Pickwick’s vibraphone master. Kory has worked with Seattle bands and musicians in the lab to churn out some amazing tunes such as The Maldives’ Listen to the Thunder, Avians Alight, Pickwick, J. Tillman and Pearly Gate Music. Congratulations on the award and keep up the good work. Check out the Sound on the Sound article on Kory’s achievements in the Seattle music scene.
Filed under: Music | Tags: EMP Sound Off!, Hope Lodge, Land of Pines, sound on the sound
Sound on the Sound
Local quintet Land of Pines is making the Evergreen State proud these days, playing a plethora of local shows and grabbing a lot of ears in the process. Sound on the Sound raves about the group calling them “the best new young local band in years.” Check out their live performance of “Virgin Birth” at Hope Lodge in the video cube down yonder. You can catch the band live in living color Saturday, February 26 at EMP’s Sound Off! semi-finals. Good luck to Land of Pines and all the other youth bands playing in the Sound Off! battle of the bands.
Sound on the Sound
Scope out the first release from a new Sound on the Sound video series, featuring local songsters Pickwick in an intimate “basement” set. The series hopes to capture local bands in their favorite practice spaces/rehearsal spots so as to glean some up-close-and-personal insight into how their sound is crafted. Have a look below, and follow the above link for more on Sound on the Sound’s vid sessions.
Sound on the Sound
Putting a positive spin on procrastination and the barrage of “best of” lists and “top ranked” charts the new year invariably brings, Sound on the Sound took some real time reflecting on the best music of 2010. The music blog has just released its Top 25 Northwest Albums of 2010, a list which includes artists from Vancouver (B.C.) down to Cottage Grove, Oregon and as far East as Forks. The blog also doesn’t count bands that are signed to Northwest labels, but hail from elsewhere, which makes it a bona fide Northwest roots ranking. Click the link above to view the top 25 most “significant” albums of 2010 as deemed by Sound on the Sound to discover some of the hidden local gems that got lost in the post-December mad dash.
Filed under: Music | Tags: doe bay, drew grow and the pastors' wives, fences, sound on the sound, the head and the heart, The Maldives
Sound on the Sound
Evidently, Doe Bay was incredible this year. The Head and the Heart, The Maldives and tons of other local acts brought their A game to the beautiful event. If you missed the weekend festival (or just want to re-live it in all its glory), Sound on the Sound has been creating ten Doe Bay Take Away Sessions for your viewing pleasure. So far, they are available for Fences, The Head and the Heart, Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives and The Maldives. Follow the link above to check them out, and keep an eye out for the upcoming sessions.
Filed under: Music | Tags: ballard, Reverb, seattle subsonic, sound on the sound
Sound on the Sound
Miss Reverb last weekend? 64 local bands filled Ballard’s best venues. Sound on the Sound were there last Saturday, being spoiled by the vastness of the Seattle music scene. Check out their coverage at the above link, as well as Seattle Subsonic’s here .
