This Saturday, August 13th, The Vera Project & Friends of Waterfront Seattle present Vera at the Waterfront: a much needed, free, all-ages excuse to pretend the summer's end isn't rapidly approaching. Complete with a stacked lineup of local musicians and art installation provided by Vera's screenprint collective, Vera at the Waterfront will take place from 3PM to 8PM at Waterfront Park (between the Seattle Aquarium and the Great Wheel). Opening the show will be the so talented one-woman choir Briana Marela, followed by usually nocturnal electronic throbbings of Nightspace and Youryoungbody, both dynamic, interesting live acts in their own right. The rock portion of the night will kick off in style at 5:30 with CHARMS, followed by Seattle guitar heroes Wild Powwers. Headlining the event is the always spirited Wild Powwers, which should be the perfect antidote to the end-of-night realization that the summer is, in fact, almost over.
Here's some videos of the artists performing live, many of them live sessions from KEXP's local music program Audioasis (Sat, 6-9 PM):
Across the last three years, Project Pabst has quietly become one of the more reliably interesting festivals in the Pacific Northwest, which is no small feat considering its large-scale competition to the north of its site in Portland, Oregon. It's essentially the Room on Fire of Northwestern music…
Wolf Parade were always going to be a band that would age well. With all of the members having hands in other projects at any given time, it wasn't ever that farfetched of a concept to see them moving away from Wolf Parade, so when it happened in 2011, they did the opposite of what James Murphy did…
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJ’s think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Mor…
A great line-up for a great cause: on Friday, August 5th, the Fremont Abbey Arts Center hosts a benefit for Nepal Peace Home with Jessica Dobson of Deep Sea Diver, Bryan John Appleby, and Shay Carlucci of Ghost Ship.
