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And the winner of the 2010 Sound Off! Battle of the Underage Bands is the great……..Great Waves! more ›

The competition was tight at last Saturday’s third semi-final round of Sound Off! Underage Battle of the Bands. Ultimately, Sammamish’s Great Waves came out on top, overcoming Kelso’s SEACATS for the win. SEACATS ended the competition as a potential wild card entry into the finals, and the band was later granted the fourth position on the list of final round artists. So tomorrow night’s competition is set! Candysound, Hooves and Beak, Great Waves, and SEACATS will battle it out using variations of the same weapon, music. more ›

Last Saturday Hooves and Beak's Whitney Flinn wowed judges and earned a spot in the final round of Sound Off! Battle of the Underage Bands, which will be held on March 6th. She'll be battling the previous semi-finals winner, Candysound, and two others for a performance at this year's Bumbershoot Festival or the Northwest Folklife Festival. Listen to Hooves and Beak's music here. We had a few questions for Miss Flinn, and she was more than happy to share her story with Seattlest, tell us a bit about her music, and muse about the future. more ›

We've been dishing out tickets for Sound Off! and playing songs from each of the underage battling bands all week, but now it's time to let the musicians speak for themselves. We had a few questions for Candysound -- winners of last week's Sound Off! semi-final. Teo and Tom, the Bellingham drum and guitar duo, were kind enough to tell us a little about themselves and the music they enjoy. more ›

This weekend, A Cozy Kitchen, Hooves and Beaks, Pan Pan, and The Cat from Hue face off. We've covered them this week -- you're excited, we're excited. Leave a comment if you want to attend this Saturday's event! Doors open at 7:00 p.m. more ›

Like their namesake, Pan Pan conjures whimsy, the wilderness, and the quiet swell of subtle emotions with a simple flourish of horn set above piano rumble. The solo project of Bellinghahm’s Sarah Jerns, Pan Pan is Morricone by way of Beirut, a suggestive mix of cinema and exuberant release. Spare percussion underpins Jerns’ wandering trumpet. Her piano skips through a field-recorded dream. Horns catch your hair and buoy traveling spirits. It’s an abduction of your senses, a permission slip for wild abandon. Listen. more ›

Hooves and Beak harpist Whitney Flinn automatically draws comparisons to indie star Joanna Newsom. Both musicians play harp and sing in American folk styles, but there may be more differences between the two than similarities. Newsom’s vocals are light and jagged, and are, for some, a bit childish sounding and cutesy - great for a few songs but quick to grate. Flinn’s singing style is a bit more traditional, like sweeping brush strokes; distant sounding, strong but subdued. She sounds as though she would be just as at home with a banjo or upright piano as with her harp. more ›

Congratulations to Candysound for winning last week’s Sound Off! Underage Battle of the Bands first semi-final. The Burlington duo moved into the finals on March 6, and the next two semi-final rounds to be held this Saturday and the next will determine their competition. Seattle’s Sea Fever came in second place at last week’s battle and stands a chance to enter the final round as a wild card. more ›

We've got two tickets to the EMP's Sound Off! this Saturday at 7 p.m. still available! more ›

If Burlington duo Candysound were actually candy instead of a band, it wouldn’t taste like bubblegum or soda pop. It would probably be more like a Snicker’s bar, smooth and sweet but packed with just enough crunch. “Super-catchy” seems to be a popular way to describe the drum and guitar group, a definition that applies to their song “I’ll Drive Forever.” Interestingly, if the group advances past the first round of the Sound Off! Battle of the Bands this weekend, they’ll play three shows around Seattle before the competition’s final round. That’s a lot of practice. more ›

Be there to witness the first battle! Seattlest has a set of two tickets to give away for this Saturday's 7:00 p.m. performance. Leave your name in the comments if you'd like to enter to win tickets to the Sound Off semifinal! more ›

The 2010 Sound Off! Battle of the Bands begins this weekend, and it’s time for another taste of what our region’s minors have to offer. Yesterday we posted a barnburner of a hardcore track from Tacoma’s Apache Chief. Today we hold the mic to (Sui Generis), a Kennewick quartet that plays around with righteous chops, metal influences, and character studies. “The Phantom” is a song that begins slow and steady before voyaging into power and speed and ending with a bit of fast-paced old world folk. more ›

The field is set for Sound Off 2010, Experience Music Project’s battle of the underage bands, and we’ve got the DL on the first competitors slated to do battle this weekend in the competition’s first semi-final round. On Saturday, four groups go into EMP; one comes out the victor and moves into the final round March 6. What do these young artists stand to gain? First prize is a performance at Bumbershoot 2010 and a bunch of sweet gear. The second place winner will perform at the Northwest Folk Life Festival 2010 and also receive some of that sweet gear. more ›

Port Townsend pop/rock trio New Faces have had a pretty damn good year, and with an upcoming West Coast tour and release of their debut full-length album, it's only going to get better. more ›