Presenting creative music in Seattle since 2013
Posts about event artists
Reaven Trio is another outlet for the music of Dennis Rea. Here he teams up with Moraine bandmate James DeJoie, here focusing on flute, and keyboardist Jon Alberts. They play tunes written by Rea and Alberts along with select covers from jazz and beyond.
If you insist on labels, you can call it Chamber Jazz, but don’t expect the music of Reaven Trio to conform to any strict boundaries.
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Plash is a band based in Seattle that brings a melodic, poppish sense of songwriting to a blend of math-rock and whatever else they feel like. The phrase “progressive K-pop” has been used, and is not completely out of line with their unusual music. They’re part of a new generation bringing complexity into the modern music scene while sounding not at all nostalgic.
They released their first album, i live alone, in 2026, and have been playing live in the area for a few years.
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FD Riverhill – BEOWWW Guitar
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Not every great event in Seattle is one that we sponsor, and we want to do our part to support good music no matter who’s presenting it.
Coming up on Saturday April 4 at the Blue Moon Tavern in the University District is the 2026 Psychedelic Spring Equinox event sponsored by Sol Disk. The featured artists are our old friends Nosretep along with Power Skeleton, Flame Tree, and the Welch / Keplinger duo.
There’s an event page on Facebook, so get it on your calendar and show up to support the artists!
Nosretep needs no introduction here, but maybe Power Skeleton is not as well known to our followers. They describe themselves as “originators of psychedelic hobo death trance,” which is a phrase that should get your creative wheels turning. They’ve got some music on Bandcamp, so you can pop over there to check it out.
Flame Tree is a long-running psychedelic band that appeared at our 2015 festival as Nik Turner’s backing band. There have been some changes in the ranks since them, but the spirit lives on.
If the names Welch and Keplinger sound familiar, it’s probably because Neil Welch (saxophones, effects) and Gregg Keplinger (drums, percussion) are both luminaries on the Seattle experimental scene, having appeared with many other artists as well as on their own. This duo presentation should be a wild ride from these two powerhouses!
Mind Beams is a Seattle area group that features Meredith Myre on vocals, Alex Stys on bass, Derek Palaniuk on drums, and Dustin Williams on guitar, and their music is an intense blend of space rock, post-punk, and their own special sauce. They’re no strangers to mixing up the time signatures, but they don’t make a fetish of it. The riffs hit hard, but never overstay their welcome or descend into mindless jamming. We like our jamming with mind intact, thank you!
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Seaprog events have featured a long string of creative bands from Bellingham. Considering the talents of Ibex, Shimmertraps, Spine Readers, and The Sheen, and adding Smooth Kiwi, the border town has an impressive per-capita rate of musicality.
Smooth Kiwi is an alternative psychedelic pop rock band made up of five passionate goofy individuals. Like a fresh kiwi, their music is vibrant, sweet, and satisfying. They blend groove-centric jams with sensual vocals, funky bass lines, tasteful drumming and an exploration of atmospheric guitar/synth tones to create a variety of sound from song to song. They have a wide-variety of influences. (Pond, The Beatles, Explosions in the Sky, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Radiohead, Tame Impala, The Strokes, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Tears For Fears) to name a “few”. They came together and jammed for the first time in late 2018 and a few months later Smooth Kiwi was born.
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