Starting today, and throughout the week I’ll be posting to the calendar shows you should probably be going to that correspond to this years MusicFestNW, along with MP3’s so you can preview the artists before the shows. At $50 for 4 days, there is no good reason not to make it out.
After the jump check out the list of performers as well as how to get into Ratatat, Les Savy Fav, Britt Daniel, No Age, Built To Spill and Battles free of charge.
Posted By David Hutchinson
These are three gems I ran into in the last day or two, added to my small playlist of music I can enjoy just as music and not as dance floor fillers.
CSS- Move (Cut Copy remix)
Cut Copy is always dependable. Soft, rhythmic anthems and Australian Electro-pop. Which seems necessary to save CSS from fading from memory after “music is my hot sex” left the stage. The end of this song is the most interesting the last two minutes being almost entirely soaring melody, the vocals long forgotten.
Fleet Foxes- Heard them Stirring
And here lies the the next big NW band. Hot on the heals of The Decemberist and their runaway success is this Seattle five piece with long names and deep, beautiful voices. This is my favorite song on the album for the shear power of the opening soar…
The Bug- Flying
This is some of the most mellow and haunting dubstep to emerge yet and it is a nice contrast to the “angry” sound of the newest star.
Posted By Sasha
I wish I could make one of those web things describing the way in which all of Seattle’s best bands connect. If you ‘Continue Reading’, please be prepared for your head to explode, not just because what i am going to describe is very confusing, but also because the music contained within this post has been known to do that. This, of course, is all in celebration (Read: Promotion) of the fact that Past Lives is playing Situations on August 2nd. Nathan’s Myspace bulletin said “(ex-Blood Brothers/Shoplifting)” but I didn’t feel like that did Past Lives justice.
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Posted By David Hutchinson
