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Can Pacific Northwest music festivals find their rhythm?

It’s music festival season in Seattle, and while this weekend’s Bumbershoot lives on, the Pacific Northwest is haunted by ghosts of parties past.
- Monica Nickelsburg
Pop Culture: Have Full Album Concerts Gone Too Far?

Meet Me Here producer Matt Martin and Lilly Ana Fowler who produces the afternoon drive show for KEXP as well as the In Your Headphones podcast, join Host Dyer Oxley to debate the value of a full album concert.
- Dyer Oxley
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library survives WA funding cuts — for now

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program will stick around for at least one more year in Washington state.
- Sami West
Remembering Kevin Diers, KUOW announcer and Seattle radio aficionado

With a heavy collective heart, KUOW remembers Kevin Diers, announcer and board operator at the station and longtime Seattle radio host, who died unexpectedly on Wednesday. He was 39.
- KUOW Staff
Weezer to bring intergalactic concert to Seattle for Bumbershoot 2025

Bumbershoot has released its two-day lineup for 2025, boasting Bright Eyes, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Aurora, Digable Planets, Murder City Devils, Janelle Monáe, Car Seat Headrest, and more. Weezer will bring its "Voyage to the Blue Planet" concert as the opening night headliner.
- Dyer Oxley
Sugar, we're going down to emo night: Why the genre’s thriving in Seattle and beyond

Move over disco night. Forget about '80s dance night. Emo night has taken over clubs throughout the Seattle region, and frankly the United States. Fans young and old(ish) pack clubs to dance and scream to a lineup of their favorite emo music. But what even is emo to begin with?
- Dyer Oxley
Pop Culture: Seattle is so emo, or whatever…

It's a funny thing -- as beloved as Emo may be, there seems to be no consensus on what it actually is. In this episode, Host Dyer Oxley speaks with three emo experts to discuss just what qualifies as Emo music in the first place.
- Dyer Oxley
Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party will go 21+ this year. Here's the lineup

When the Capitol Hill Block Party returns to Seattle in July, it will be for crowds 21 and older for the first time in the music festival's history.
- Dyer Oxley
Remembering KYAC: the Seattle Black-owned radio station that felt like home

If you wanted to hear soul music in Seattle circa 1970, there was one local station that would never disappoint: KYAC. For Black History Month, producer Lauren Williams went back in time to 1970s Seattle to ask folks about what it was like to work at and listen to KYAC during its heyday.
- Lauren Williams
'Gunk Pop' tops 2024 Seattle critics music poll

The Seattle Times, once again this year, invited local music writers, DJs, and playlist curators to submit their favorite local music albums of the year. The votes are tallied up, and the Times has released the results in the best Washington albums of 2024 list. Seattle Times music writer Michael Rietmulder curated the list sat down with KUOW’s Kevin Kniestedt to talk about the top three albums.
- Kevin Kniestedt

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