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Live Review: Trivium / Bullet For My Valentine – The Paramount Theatre, Seattle 01.04.2025

Words and photos by Nestor Selgado Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine join forces during “The Poisoned Ascendancy Tour,” in celebration of 20 years of Ascendancy and The Poisoned. The…

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Say Psych: News: Seattle via Italy Painted Vein releases debut LP Dripping Only Black

Painted Vein is the music project of the Italian (resident of Seattle, Washington musician, producer, and audio engineer Andrea Fox Volpato, who has spent the last 10 years brewing the material for…

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Live Review: L.S. Dunes / Pinkshift – The Showbox Seattle, Washington State 02.08.2023

By Nestor Salgado L.S. Dunes takes the stage at The Showbox in the bustling downtown Seattle area, just a stone’s throw away from the famous Pike Place Market. Post-hardcore supergroup…

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PREMIERE: Beverly Crusher get otherworldly on ‘Gimmie the Power’ from impending debut album

If you didn’t know, now you know: Beverly Crusher are finally getting their shit together and releasing an album. We’ve heard it, and if you’re in any way familiar with…

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PREMIERE: Seattle’s Biblioteka stream debut album ‘Pretty Ugly’ ahead of release

They’ve been building up to something grander for a while – dealing with the mixed emotions of releasing their second EP a week into a pandemic along the way –…

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PREMIERE: Beverly Crusher line up debut with the fired-up polemic of ‘Scab’

Yes please, thank you, we’ll have plenty more of that – you’ll likely find yourself saying similar things after being tossed around by this song for two-and-a-half minutes. Meet Seattlites…

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PREMIERE: Seattle’s Acid Tongue stream new album ‘Arboretum’ ahead of release

Though its core members are based in Seattle – that’s Guy Keltner and Ian Cunningham – Acid Tongue are no strangers to international collaboration or putting in work when it…

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Say Psych: Album Review: MØAA – Euphoric Recall

Exploring dark memories embedded in nostalgia, MØAA present their debut LP Euphoric Recall out now on WWNBB (We Were Never Being Boring). MØAA was first conceived by Jancy Rae when she…

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See: National Honor Society release new video for First Among The Last

Taken from their album To all the Glory We Never Had, out now on Chien Lunatique Records, Seattle indie band National Honor Society have released a new video for album…

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Album Review: Low Hums – Zzyzx

There’s a happening taking place in Seattle, helmed by Low Hums’ “band-guru” Jonas Haskins. Or is it Sanoj Snikhas? Before the references to Manson Family occur though (who are back…

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