City Sounds

Seattle Outdoor Concert Guide 2024

Spend this summer grooving outdoors.

05/21/2024 By Seattle Met Staff

Culture Fix

Things to Do in Seattle

Seattle Beer Week cracks open and Paul Giamatti becomes a podcast guy.

05/16/2024 By Taylor McKenzie Gerlach

Interview

Brandy Clark Finds Americana Music Right Here at Home

What do you get when you add Brandy Clark and Brandi Carlile? A hometown record with a whole lot of Grammy nominations.

02/01/2024 By Allison Williams

Festival Szn

Bumbershoot Is Back

Seattle's iconic arts and music festival returns with a lineup that leans hard on its PNW roots.

02/21/2023 By Angela Cabotaje

Home Collections

Trevor Boone Strums for Vintage Left-Handed Guitars

The Emerald City Guitars owner draws from his lifelong love of collecting and bygone eras.

12/22/2022 By Angela Cabotaje Photography by Chona Kasinger

A Day in the Life

Punk, Pride, and Pickled Eggs

A historic day with local band Rachaels Children.

09/09/2022 By Sophie Grossman

This Month in Seattle Music

Washingtonians Gear Up for the Grammys and Fans Mourn Taylor Hawkins

The Grammy nominations are studded with local names, including Brandi Carlile (of course) and the Foo Fighters, who recently lost their drummer.

04/01/2022 By Sophie Grossman

A bit of every-thing

Thing Is Back with a Lineup Geared Toward Music Discovery

Sasquatch!'s spiritual successor returns to historic Fort Worden with a bounty of music and visual arts programming.

03/15/2022 By Taylor McKenzie Gerlach

Mixtape

Music Recommendations from Your Favorite Seattle Bands

From deep cuts to a Grammy Award–winning track, these selections curated by local artists are a window into Seattle’s kaleidoscopic music scene.

02/10/2022 By Sophie Grossman

On the Right Track

Black Fret’s 2022 Grantees Should Make You Hopeful for the Future of Seattle Music

Eleven local artists will receive a no-strings-attached $5,000 grant to keep the amps on.

02/08/2022 By Sophie Grossman

Sounds Off

Is Brandi Carlile a Pop Singer? She Doesn't Think So.

Washington's increasingly famous crooner holds tight to her Americana roots, even when the Grammys disagree.

11/02/2021 By Allison Williams

Live, From New York...

At Last, a Saturday Night Live Performance for Brandi Carlile

The local singer-songwriter will be the musical guest October 23, with Jason Sudeikis as host. Apparently Carlile is a Ted Lasso fan.

09/23/2021 By Lucas Kaplan

Hear Here

Guayaba’s Fantasmagoría Is an Eerie and Eclectic Wonderland

The local rapper and singer’s new album packs manifold influences—bossa nova, Edith Piaf, Three 6 Mafia—into an “opera of the bizarre.”

11/21/2019 By Stefan Milne

Seattle Sounds

Scott McCaughey Had a Stroke. Then He Wrote an Album in the ICU.

The Northwest icon and his band the Minus 5 play the Tractor Tavern, supporting Stroke Manor.

07/25/2019 By Stefan Milne

O Say Can You Rock

Jimi Hendrix's “Star-Spangled Banner” Turns 50

At Woodstock, Seattle’s iconic guitarist changed the national anthem—and maybe music—forever.

07/23/2019 By James Ross Gardner

Sounds to the North

Fisherman’s Village Music Festival Returns This Week

Wolf Parade, Travis Thompson, and the Coathangers come to Everett for the festival’s sixth year.

05/14/2019 By Stefan Milne

Crate Dig

A Guide to Seattle’s Record Store Day

Record Store Day is Saturday, April 13. Here’s how to navigate based on your musical inclinations.

04/11/2019 By Stefan Milne

Home For Orphans

How One Seattle Pirate Radio Station Is Making the Local Scene Think Globally

The DJing couple behind Orphan Radio wanted to bring Seattle music up to speed—and the city is taking notice.

08/31/2018 By Mac Hubbard

Weekly Planner

Nosh Pit Weekly Planner: August 19–26

This week: pet some puppies and kittens and miniature donkeys, or enjoy some face-melting grunge rock in a parking lot. Either way, there will be snacks.

08/19/2014 By Caroline Ferguson

Local Talent

Seattle Band on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Tonight

Pop-rockers Eclectic Approach get their big break at midnight.

10/01/2012 By Laura Dannen