Music

  1. Music Without Borders: Rose Window / Speck Mountain

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    Spring is in the air, love is all around and it’s a good time to check in with a two traveling bands based around couples that’ll be coming through town…

  2. Music Without Borders: Brittany Kingery

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    Over drinks at the Spar, I met with singer Brittany Kingery to talk of her upcoming CD release party with Game Six, the band she shares with songwriter/guitarist Rob Hill…

  3. Music: Vizual Noize

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    The hip-hop MC and visual artist, Vizual Noize, grew up in Yelm, moved to Olympia, and brought his musical talent with him. His alias came “Through meditation called inverted perspective;…

  4. Music Without Borders: The Brothers Jim

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    “Chuck had a nervous reaction that resulted in that first track on the record being written.” This is the way Jeff Springer describes his brother Chuck’s reaction to his suggestion…

  5. Open Mic opportunities in Oly!

    Open Mic Nights! Want to hear more people singing their hearts out? Check out these open mic opportunities: Monday – The Westside Tavern Tuesday – Tugboat Annies Wednesday – This…

  6. Xero Ours: It’s what they say that’s important

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    Al, Clydewell, and Blake are the rappers in Xero Ours, existing as a trio since 2010. The longtime friends make smooth waves in the music world, whether they perform in…

  7. Full Moon Radio makes a splash

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    When’s the last time an Olympia band made a splash in the Pacific Northwest the way Full Moon Radio has? It’s a hard question to answer, because how do you…

  8. Arrington de Dionyso channels the impossible

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    by Kristina Mageau   Meeting with Arrington de Dionyso in person, I expected to be overwhelmed by his creative vision and instead was pleasantly met with a calm sense of…

  9. Music: MC Swamptiger

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          MC Swamptiger spits rhymes of complexity, about philosophy and consciousness, deeper than the mainstream hip-hop MC’s will go. He lives on the eastside of Olympia and he…

  10. Music Without Borders: Survival Knife/Unwound

    Justin Trosper has a name familiar to a lot of folks around here, partly because his distant family members were Tumwater pioneers with a road named after them. But to…