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For the Seattle Symphony, a Fresh and Festive Welcome

For the Seattle Symphony, a Fresh and Festive Welcome

Thomas Dausgaard, the orchestra's new music director, launches a new chapter

It’s not often the Seattle Symphony welcomes a new music director—Saturday night’s gala concert marked only the fourth such occasion in the past half-century. While Ludovic Morlot was relatively unknown to the orchestra at his hiring in 2011, having conducted here just twice—a gamble that paid off with eight innovative seasons of music-making—the new guy,…

Gavin Borchert

Seattle Symphony Debuts Its Newest Conductor at the Season-opening Gala

Seattle Symphony Debuts Its Newest Conductor at the Season-opening Gala

Thomas Dausgaard will begin his tenure with some Scandinavian music favorites

This article appears in print in the September 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Though no one was really ready to say goodbye to Ludovic Morlot, Seattle Symphony is turning the page with incoming music director Thomas Dausgaard, who will begin his tenure at this season-opening gala concert. The Danish Dausgaard is following Seattle Symphony tradition by sharing…

Gavin Borchert

Backstory: The Man Behind the Music at Seattle Center's International Fountain

Backstory: The Man Behind the Music at Seattle Center’s International Fountain

A local landmark comes alive thanks to its own DJ

HEY MR. DJ: James Whetzel, in front of the International Fountain at the Seattle Center; he’s responsible for the fountain’s playlist

Chris Robinson

Fisherman’s Village Music Festival in Everett: Our Recap

Fisherman’s Village Music Festival in Everett: Our Recap

The beer was cold (and cheap!), the bands were hot and other highlights from Everett’s annual music festival

Coathangers performing at Fisherman’s Village Music Festival in Everett

Sydney Gladu

Backstory: Inside The Showbox's Hidden Graffiti Room

Backstory: Inside The Showbox’s Hidden Graffiti Room

A secret room in The Showbox is a time capsule of the city’s rock history

This article appears in print in the May 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The Landmark: The graffiti room in The Showbox The Location: Downtown, The Showbox, 1426 First Ave. The Backstory: The Showbox—Seattle’s legendary live-music venue where everyone from Duke Ellington to Mudhoney has performed—has been well known to Seattleites since it opened in 1939. But a significantly smaller crowd…

Lena Beck

Timbrrr! Music Festival Heats Up in Leavenworth

Timbrrr! Music Festival Heats Up in Leavenworth

For one weekend each January, Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival makes the mountains sing

The crowd rocking out in Festhalle

Gavin Borchert

Seattle's Slack Key Festival of Hawaiian Music Turns 10

Seattle’s Slack Key Festival of Hawaiian Music Turns 10

The Seattle Slack Key Festival celebrates 10 years of bringing the sound of Hawaii to Seattle

Guitarist Ikaika Marzo returns to the Seattle Slack Key Festival

Gavin Borchert

Sub Pop at 30: The Seattle Magazine Mixtape

Sub Pop at 30: The Seattle Magazine Mixtape

Seattle magazine editors and writers chose their favorite Sub Pop tracks for this playlist celebrating the legendary record label's 30th anniversary

Sub Pop artist photos at Hotel Max.

Gwendolyn Elliott and Dan Shafer

Sub Pop at 30: Charting the Legacy of the Seattle Sound

Sub Pop at 30: Charting the Legacy of the Seattle Sound

How Sub Pop, a scrappy independent record label with the slogan ‘Going Out of Business Since 1988’ established the ‘Seattle sound,’ weathered the volatile music business and continues to make its mark on the city--30 years and counting

This article appears in print in the August 2018 issue. Read more from the feature story here. Click here to subscribe. Like Kurt Cobain, Nirvana and so many of the homegrown cultural forces it first nurtured, the origins of Seattle indie record label Sub Pop formed organically and humbly, specifically, in the 1980 dorm room of Evergreen State…

Gwendolyn Elliott

Sub Pop Employees Have Been Pulling Epic Pranks for 30 Years

Sub Pop Employees Have Been Pulling Epic Pranks for 30 Years

Founded on April Fools’ Day, Sub Pop has taken the date to heart, pulling notorious pranks over the years. Here are a few classic examples

Sub Pop CEO Megan Jasper, the woman behind the legendary “Lexicon of Grunge”

Gwendolyn Elliott

The Sub Pop Timeline

The Sub Pop Timeline

A highly abridged version of the label’s notable cultural contributions

Soundgarden’s first EP, 1987’s “Screaming Life,” was among Sub Pop’s first releases

Gwendolyn Elliott

Take a Self-Guided Tour of Seattle's Sub Pop Sights

Take a Self-Guided Tour of Seattle’s Sub Pop Sights

Bone up on your Sub Pop history with this tour of the city’s label-affiliated sights

MoPOP’s exhibit “Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses”

Gwendolyn Elliott

Sub Pop's Creative Director Waxes on the Label's Album Art

Sub Pop’s Creative Director Waxes on the Label’s Album Art

Sub Pop albums are defined by a certain aesthetic, and for the past 24 years, the label’s creative director, Jeff Kleinsmith, has helped convey it through the label’s record covers. Here, he waxes on a few favorites

Creative director Jeff Kleinsmith and office Sub Pup Kenny

Gwendolyn Elliott

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