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Alexa Peters

Alexa Peters is a freelance features journalist and copywriter living in Seattle, WA. She has written about arts and culture, lifestyle, and news for publications like The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, No Depression, Paste, Seattle Magazine, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, and Fretboard Journal. When she’s not writing, she likes crate-digging for vinyl, talking to dogs, and eating Thai food.

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Seattle's Babes in Canyon Release Storm-Born Debut EP

On February 24, Babes in Canyon, a new Seattle band made up of music scene veterans Nathan Hamer and Michelle Nuño and keyboardist/vocalist Amanda Ebert, released their airy, transporting indie debut, Second Cities. Babes in Canyon, which was born from a particularly thrilling, stormy night Hamer...

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Zookraught Brings Punk Chaos to Conor Byrne

Three-piece punk band Zookraught is in full "chaos mode," as they call it. The explosive collective has been gaining momentum in recent months, and they don't show any signs of slowing down. Comprised of bassist/vocalist Steph Jones, drummer/vocalist Baylee Harper, and guitarist/vocalist Sam...

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Whitney Ballen Kicks Off Next Musical Phase with Show at Sunset Tavern

In 2018, on the heels of her full length album You're a Shooting Star, I'm a Sinking Ship, singer songwriter Whitney Ballen and her band were gaining momentum in Seattle. Thanks the ongoing pandemic, Ballen's name has been noticeably absent from venue calendars, but she's been writing new...

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Drone Rockers somesurprises to Debut New Songs at Ronette’s Psychedelic Sock Hop

An immigration lawyer by day and mastermind behind Seattle ambient rock collective somesurprises by night, Natasha El-Sergany - born in Ireland, raised partly in the UK, and has lived throughout the U.S. - is not your average Seattle rocker. The music of somesurprises is a unique combination of...

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Kebs Talks Skateboarding, Inclusion, and Her Debut LP with Punitive Damage

With a raw ferocity and a merciless attack on their instruments, their debut full length, This is the Blackout, which drops on October 14th via Atomic Action Records, rages at our...

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Leeni Enters a Dazzling New Phase with Violet LP

When Seattle-based synth-pop artist Leeni shops for synthesizers, she finds herself looking at them and asking herself, "Are there songs in there?" Sometimes, like magic, the instrument answers. Just a little play with a patch or a twist of the controls and suddenly, the instrument transports you...

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Dining Dead Bring Evocative Stranger Wages EP to Blue Moon Tavern

Sammy Skidmore and Emma Hayes, two born and bred Seattle-ites, first met and connected over their shared love of music at a local summer camp as seventh graders in 2006. Fast forward more than a decade later, and the two formed their group Dining Dead and released their multi-dimensional sophomore...

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Lolli Morlock Brings the Heat on Debut EP from New Seattle Supergroup Hell Baby

In 2015, the give-no-fucks garage punk of Mommy Long Legs stole the hearts of Seattle underground music fans, many of whom knew every line of the band's anti-capitalistic anthem, "Assholes" (and even now, Mommy Long Legs' 2018 song, "Call You Out," has become a viral hit among twenty-somethings on...

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Rat Queen debuts fresh evolution on new single "Circle the Drain"

But that hasn't been the case for Seattle' Rat Queen, the alt rock brainchild of songwriting partners and best friends, Jeff Tapia and Daniel Timothy Desrosiers. "My friendship with Daniel is hilarious and unconditional...

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Seattle's Brittany Danielle Lets It All Go on Latest Single "Hindsight"

But after spending years as a student of the classical and jazz greats, she's only just started to write, perform, and record music that is...

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Lily Henley Carries the Stories of Centuries of Sephardic Women on Oras Dezaoradas LP

Part Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jew, New York-based singer, songwriter and fiddler Lily Henley has been a lifelong student of various rich Jewish diasporic traditions. In particular, Henley has spent several years studying the Sephardic language, Ladino, an endangered language spoken by less than...

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Belltown Bloom Festival Returns to Seattle to Highlight Diverse Artists

Maiah Manser // Photo Credit: Anna Azarov Photography Delayed two years by COVID, Belltown Bloom, an all-ages festival created to bring the organizers' favorite bands together and highlight gender and racial diversity in the Seattle music scene, returns this weekend for its second official year....

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Drummer Christopher Icasiano Brings Identity-Affirming Solo Debut to Barboza

For more than a decade, Icasiano has been one half of the mercurial, genre-bending saxophone and drums duo, Bad Luck, and a frequent contributor to other...

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Seattle Listening Party Premiere Interactive 3D Music Video "Find Ur Grind"

Jena Pyle has designed a music video like no other for "Find Ur Grind," her recent collaboration with Jack Uppling's solo project, Seattle Listening Party. Beyond writing the lyrical content and singing on the track, Pyle, who is also a professional illustrator and designer, created a fantastical...

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Pop Punk Haley Graves Finds Herself on Sophomore EP Over

Twenty-one-year-old Haley Graves, who self-defines as a Black Queer Pop Punk Artist, has found herself—but it's been a tumultuous journey. Adopted from birth, Graves, who is mixed race, grew up as one of the only non-white kids in a small, sheltered town in Maine—an upbringing that made it hard to...

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Caitlin Sherman Faces Challenges Big and Small with "Up The Street, Diving Down" Video Premiere

For Seattle songwriter Caitlin Sherman, 2020 was supposed to be a transformative year for her music career. She'd just recovered from two break-ups—of her band, Evening Bell, and of her relationship that anchored that band—and recorded her transcendent debut solo release, Death to the Damsel, which...

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Kitty Junk Merge Glam Rock Ferocity with Unabashed Activism

Ferociously unapologetic. That's the best way to describe Kitty Junk, the raging glam rock duo of guitarist/vocalist Ryan Lee and drummer Angie Megan. They exploded onto the scene with their first LP Converse Theory last October after spending months writing emphatic feminist rock songs in Megan's...

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Salt Lick to Reconnect with Fans at First Post-Quarantine Barboza Show

Come January 21st, five-piece exploratory rock band Salt Lick will play their first show since quarantine at Capitol Hill's Barboza, alongside surf-psych rock group La Fonda and dream pop duo Coral Grief. The band's raw-yet-dreamy sound has roots in an array of West Coast DIY scenes - including two...

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Vocal Powerhouse Shaina Shepherd Brings Seattle Together with "Never Be Another You"

It was there, belting on-stage with the choir, where her mother would "shine"—and where Shepherd learned what was possible for herself, too. "I...

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DoNormaal Quietly Releases Video for Brand-New Track "Baby May"

It's been a while since we've heard from DoNormaal, the mesmerizing emcee and producer who exploded on the Seattle underground hip-hop scene in November 2015 with the release of her debut LP Jump Or Die and 2017's follow-up Third Daughter. Since 2018, her shows and fresh releases have appeared to...

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Linda From Work Rail Against Soul-Sucking 9-to-5s at Cafe Racer Gig This Weekend

Like many of us, Hilary Tusick, lead singer and songwriter of Seattle band Linda From Work, has had her fair share of shitty, soul-sucking 9-to-5 office jobs. But while many of us can only continue to seethe with our unresolved job-related bitterness, Tusick's found some catharsis. Her years of...

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Cat Valley Lambast Music Industry Sexism on New Single "Manager"

With that familiar Riot Grrl verve, relatability, and...

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Cellist Jeremiah Moon Challenges Artistic Hermit Stereotype with Debut Single "Kinds of Light"

Perhaps it's the gentle lilt of his voice, or his unique, interstellar moniker, but there's something dreamy about Jeremiah Moon and his music. As a teaser for his forthcoming 2022 debut EP Sputnik, the Seattle cellist and singer-songwriter spins a whimsical indie folk-pop dreamscape with the...

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Hollis Premieres Self-Directed Video for Latest Solo Single "Let Me Not"

L.A.-via Seattle singer, songwriter, and spoken word artist Hollis Wong-Wear, known simply as Hollis, is redefining herself and going solo. Until now, Hollis has been best known for her contribution to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' 2013 debut GRAMMY-nominated album, The Heist, with the song "White...

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Bovian Benefits Seattle Venues With Music Doc Tour Around Town

In August 2019, Tommy Clark, known by his artist name Bovian, said goodbye to his soulmate, Chris, who was terminally ill with a rare form of blood cancer. About a week before Chris passed away, in a rare moment alone in the hospital room, Chris shared his dying wish. "The day after we got the...

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Black Ends Bring Ground-Breaking "Gunk Pop" to Substation This Saturday

Gunk pop. That's the phrase Nicolle Swims—lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for Seattle band Black Ends—coined to describe the group's distinctive ruckus, which builds on Seattle's alternative rock history but signifies a new and more diverse era for Seattle rock music. "I feel like my voice is...

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Seattle Hosts Its First-Ever International Reggae Festival

Seattle-based reggae artists Black Puma and Clinton Fearon. Photo courtesy of Black Puma. This Saturday, August 14th, The Canal in Ballard hosts the First Annual Seattle International Reggae Festival. Founder and promoter Jeremiah Blake, known in the music world as Andrew Hype, promises a fun,...

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Seattle's Prom Queen Rally to #FreeBritney with Spears Covers EP Lucky

Thirteen years later, Spears is fighting to regain her autonomy from her conservator father, who limits...

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Debut Single from THEM "Bad 4 U" is Good for the Future of Seattle Music

For a many years now, the future of the Seattle music scene—one that has long been defined by the vibrant grunge and DIY rock scene of the 1990s— has been in question due to Big Tech money and the extensive forces of gentrification overtaking the city. As Bandcamp Daily recently wrote about the...

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Lauren Lee Defies Vocal Jazz Tradition with The Queen of Cups LP

It’s a persistent discrimination that was written into the fabric of the genre 100 years ago, as a result of the social conventions of...

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Julia Francis Has a Fierce "Cinderella" Story to Tell

On the newly-released version of her single “Cinderella,” Seattle rocker Julia Francis repeats the phrase, “Getting intimate in my mind,” with rasping, smoky vibrato. Francis' distinctive vocal performance—and the emotionally tumultuous content of "Cinderella"—brings to mind Janis Joplin and...

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Jayli Wolf Reclaims Every Part of Herself on Forthcoming EP Wild Whisper

But her palpable self-possession and undeniable star-quality has been hard-earned,...

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Washington-bred Queer Roots Artist McKain Lakey Blasts Gender Inequality with "Decibel Jezebel"

In music, the unequal representation of women is an industry-wide issue with a lasting ripple effect. There's no sector of the industry with a more pronounced gender gap than in engineering and producing. According to reports by the Audio Engineering Society, women make up just 5% to 7% of audio...

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Beth Whitney Contemplates Both Sides of Loneliness with "Moonlight" Video Premiere

“She sat next to me and she had a backpack and she took it off. She reached into her...

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Pikefruit Tease Debut LP Inflorescence with Shimmering Single "Wish You Were Here"

What happens when you bring together two musically inventive, botany-obsessed Seattleites? You get Pikefruit, a local duo that draws on the techniques of electronic production and their love of the Pacific Northwest's lush natural world, in the pursuit of dynamic, orchestrated chamber pop....

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Three Oregon Musicians Champion Inspiring Women with New YouTube Series "She's Speaking"

Singer-songwriter and 'She's Speaking' co-creator Beth Wood, as photographed by Rodney Bursiel Last year, during the 2020 Vice Presidential debates, when Kamala Harris silenced Mike Pence with the measured reminder, "I'm Speaking," three Oregon-based songwriters - Kristen Grainger, Beth Wood, and...

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A New Compilation from Womxn in Music Collective Highlights Inclusion and Talent for International Women's Day

Ailisa Newhall produced the new comp from Womxn In Music. Photo Credit: Dawndra Budd In honor of International Women's Day, it seems only right to highlight new Seattle projects specifically designed with the interests of womxn musicians in mind. One great example of such an effort is the new...

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Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno Ruminate on Missed Connection with "You Don't See Me"

How we react to these seemingly inevitable encounters is another story, and the topic of the new single...

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Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio Deliver on a Promise with Sophomore LP I Told You So

Willey With the release of their newest album, I Told You So, which drops today on Colemine Records, Seattle's simmering soul-jazz Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio deliver on a promise they made to their fans more than two years ago. Shortly after the 2018 release of their debut...

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Seattle's Sundae Crush Serve Up Psych-infused Solidarity with "Don't Give Up" Video

After the year we all just had, it's completely understandable if you feel like giving up. But with "Don't Give Up," Seattle's Sundae Crush have arrived to offer you another option: How about a therapeutic float through a neon floral wonderland? In the psychedelic, prairie-inspired video, designed...

5 Powerful Protest Songs Released by Womxn in 2020

Music has always served as a battle cry and a balm during particularly tumultuous times, and in 2020—when injustices like the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on BIPOC, the slaying of George Floyd by police, the assault on immigrant, women's, and LGBTQIA rights by the Trump...

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INTERVIEW: Alaska Reid Goes Solo on Big Bunny EP

By 14, she was performing her songs in clubs on the Sunset Strip, and by 20, she'd released Crush with her band Alyeska and veteran producer John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth). Three years later, she's stepping back...

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Songwriter Tekla Waterfield Premieres "Trouble in Time"

The Alaskan-born daughter of a folk musician, Tekla Waterfield comes by evocative, poignant songwriting honestly. Waterfield has played music in various formations in Seattle since she moved to the area in 2010, but most recently, she's stepped out on own to write and perform with her husband,...

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PREMIERE: Seattle's Cool Ruins Faces The Fire with New Video

In late May, while listening to police flash-bangs and screams of protestors outside his apartment in Seattle during the widespread protests following the May 25 death of George Floyd, multi-instrumentalist Jordan Thomas, a.k.a. Cool Ruins, says he felt the true implications of living in what he...

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Dana Foote Leans in to Her Sir Chloe Persona on Debut EP Party Favors

In her senior year at Bennington College in Vermont, Dana Foote, a music composition major, was required to present a concert of original music. Foote gathered together some of her school peers, the songs she wrote, and she called the group Sir Chloe, a nod to the name her mother almost gave her as...

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Jessica Dobson of Deep Sea Diver Discusses Resplendent New LP Impossible Weight

Jessica Dobson is a quiet giant of contemporary indie music. Along with performing her own material in Deep Sea Diver, Dobson has worked with indie music darlings like Beck, Conor Oberst, Spoon, and The Shins. And yet, if you said her name to the person next to you, they likely wouldn't know who...

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Gracie and Rachel Grow on Hello Weakness, You Make Me Strong

The last time I met with the baroque pop duo Gracie Coates and Rachel Ruggles (aka Gracie and Rachel) was in 2014, in the backyard of Coates' parent's house in Berkeley, California - which happened to be near where I was living as an au pair (while also writing about music). I had just learned...

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Seattle's Good Co Asks Musicians to Quarantine Together for Video Cover Challenge

On a bandstand, it's not uncommon to leave space for band-members—and special guests—to solo and share their own interpretation of a song live for everyone to enjoy. But, during quarantine, while musicians and audiences are alone in their homes, that delicious sense of collaboration and...

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Kathy Moore Premieres Apocalyptic Video for "Bad Day's Coming"

Is it too late fix the things in the world that are broken? That was the question on powerhouse Seattle guitarist Kathy Moore's mind when she wrote her Super Power trio's newest single, "Bad Day's Coming," and started planning the entrancing music video that accompanies it. To celebrate its...

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VIDEO PREMIERE: New Single From Kristen Grainger and True North Lauds Women as Leaders

Oregon State's motto, "She Flies with her Own Wings," was first adopted in 1854 as a nod to the "independent spirit" of the state's first pioneers. In her new single by the same name, Kristen Grainger and True North spins the phrase into a modern feminist anthem. An Oregon resident who for many...

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