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Seattle Music 2014: Indie Pop Bands
Shake it to the upbeat sounds of these local indie pop acts
What’s your favorite current Seattle band? If you have trouble answering (or if you draw a blank after Macklemore), we’re not going to judge. But we are going to suggest it’s time to check in with the city’s thriving indie music scene. New local bands are exploring sounds, blurring genre boundaries (though we’ve wrestled them…
Seattle Music 2014: Indie Rock Bands
Add these local indie rock bands to your must-listen list stat
My Goodness Gateway Band: SoundgardenThis heavy-rockin’ band with a grungy metal edge dropped its full-length album Shiver + Shake last summer to much critical success. In a way, their sound is simple, but don’t let the stripped-down guitar and drums fool you. As with similar-sounding rock/blues outfits (The Black Keys and The White Stripes), the…
Seattle Music 2014: Americana/Alt-Country Bands
From Shelby Earl to Star Anna, these are the bands rocking the Americana/Alt-Country genre
What’s your favorite current Seattle band? If you have trouble answering (or if you draw a blank after Macklemore), we’re not going to judge. But we are going to suggest it’s time to check in with the city’s thriving indie music scene. New local bands are exploring sounds, blurring genre boundaries (though we’ve wrestled them…
We’re On a Boat! Listening to Music! On Lake Union!
So… it’s a concert? On a boat… with its own beach? Yes to all.
Local music purveyor Seattle Living Room Shows has teamed up with Lake Union Charters & Adventures to put on an evening outdoor concert on a boat with a deck transformed into a sandy beach. On August 26 at 6:45 p.m. sharp, the intrepid Trek (a car-and-passenger ferry turned leisure zone) shoves off into the evening…
Veuve Clicquot’s Mail Truck Stops in Seattle
This luxe, yellow vehicle will be brimming with bubbly. What's not to love?
The Veuve Clicquot Mail Truck stems from Madame Clicquot herself, the French businesswoman who took over her husband’s wine company at the age of 27 upon his death. Inspired by Madame Clicquot’s correspondence style–snail mail–the glam rig, decked out in the company’s signature yellow color, is traveling around the country encouraging people to send handwritten…
Road tripping to Bainbridge Island: Where I Ate
I did something on Sunday that I need to do more often: get out of town. I grabbed a friend and ferried over to Bainbridge Island yesterday morning (barely a line!) to just decompress. Things started out shaky as we arrived starving to the Streamliner Diner for breakfast around 10:30 a.m. The line was a…
Unexpected Attractions at the Gates Foundation Visitor Center
Sponsored By The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Across the street from the EMP and Seattle Space Needle, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center is a hidden gem that embodies the city’s unique culture of entrepreneurship and philanthropy — making it an essential place to visit (and it’s free!). Here are three surprising things you will find when you visit. …
Summer Entertaining Made Simple
Party expert Jenny Batt on how to throw a chic, low-key summer bash
It’s definitely not too late to throw a summer bash! But how do you do it easily and simply? We tapped Jenny Batt, the decorations designer, craft stylist and creative mind behind the blog Hank & Hunt, to whip up a charming (and affordable!) party spread that just about anyone could pull off. “Keep it…
Top Stories from the Week
If you missed one of our best articles from this first week in August, we've got you covered
TGIF! What an eventful week Seattle has had…and there’s more to come this weekend, such as these National S’mores Day events, the Street Food Festival or a pee-themed satire, Urinetown. But in the meantime don’t forget to check out the stories you may have missed during this sunny first week of August. 1. Recipe of…
How to Beachcomb
Score delightful treasures along the beaches of Washington and Oregon
Our expert: Ravenna-based oceanographer and self-described “flotsamologist” Curtis Ebbesmeyer, coauthor of Flotsametrics and the Floating World and a quarterly “Beachcombers’ Alert” (beachcombersalert.org), a compilation of recent finds, including shells, sea glass and at least 11 kelp-covered boats believed to be debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan that washed onto the Washington coast. Want to…
How the Increase to $15 Per Hour Could Affect Your Meals
Minimum Rage: What Seattle’s decision to hike the minimum wage might mean to diners
What do you get when you combine an impressive minimum-wage increase with restaurateurs who aren’t sure how they’ll afford it and a dining population that won’t settle for second-rate products or services? Speculation on a long timeline. The Seattle City Council’s recent decision to implement a $15 an hour minimum wage hike across all industries…
City People’s Garden Give Away
City People’s (Madison Park, 2939 E Madison St.; 206.324.0737) really wants to help your garden grow. To win a $1,000 gift card from City People’s, individuals or groups just need to submit their Seattle garden projects by August 31st. You will have a full year to use the gift card to buy seeds, starts, soil, tools, fertilizer…
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