Alexa Peters

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Alexa Peters is a freelance features journalist and copywriter living in Seattle, WA. She has written about arts and culture, lifestyle, and news for publications like The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, No Depression, Paste, Seattle Magazine, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, and Fretboard Journal. When she’s not writing, she likes crate-digging for vinyl, talking to dogs, and eating Thai food.

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Seattle's Babes in Canyon Release Storm-Born Debut EP

On February 24, Babes in Canyon, a new Seattle band made up of music scene veterans Nathan Hamer and Michelle Nuño and keyboardist/vocalist Amanda Ebert, released their airy, transporting indie debut, Second Cities. Babes in Canyon, which was born from a particularly thrilling, stormy night Hamer...

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Zookraught Brings Punk Chaos to Conor Byrne

Three-piece punk band Zookraught is in full "chaos mode," as they call it. The explosive collective has been gaining momentum in recent months, and they don't show any signs of slowing down. Comprised of bassist/vocalist Steph Jones, drummer/vocalist Baylee Harper, and guitarist/vocalist Sam...

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Whitney Ballen Kicks Off Next Musical Phase with Show at Sunset Tavern

In 2018, on the heels of her full length album You're a Shooting Star, I'm a Sinking Ship, singer songwriter Whitney Ballen and her band were gaining momentum in Seattle. Thanks the ongoing pandemic, Ballen's name has been noticeably absent from venue calendars, but she's been writing new...

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Drone Rockers somesurprises to Debut New Songs at Ronette’s Psychedelic Sock Hop

An immigration lawyer by day and mastermind behind Seattle ambient rock collective somesurprises by night, Natasha El-Sergany - born in Ireland, raised partly in the UK, and has lived throughout the U.S. - is not your average Seattle rocker. The music of somesurprises is a unique combination of...

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Kebs Talks Skateboarding, Inclusion, and Her Debut LP with Punitive Damage

With a raw ferocity and a merciless attack on their instruments, their debut full length, This is the Blackout, which drops on October 14th via Atomic Action Records, rages at our...

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Leeni Enters a Dazzling New Phase with Violet LP

When Seattle-based synth-pop artist Leeni shops for synthesizers, she finds herself looking at them and asking herself, "Are there songs in there?" Sometimes, like magic, the instrument answers. Just a little play with a patch or a twist of the controls and suddenly, the instrument transports you...

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Dining Dead Bring Evocative Stranger Wages EP to Blue Moon Tavern

Sammy Skidmore and Emma Hayes, two born and bred Seattle-ites, first met and connected over their shared love of music at a local summer camp as seventh graders in 2006. Fast forward more than a decade later, and the two formed their group Dining Dead and released their multi-dimensional sophomore...

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Lolli Morlock Brings the Heat on Debut EP from New Seattle Supergroup Hell Baby

In 2015, the give-no-fucks garage punk of Mommy Long Legs stole the hearts of Seattle underground music fans, many of whom knew every line of the band's anti-capitalistic anthem, "Assholes" (and even now, Mommy Long Legs' 2018 song, "Call You Out," has become a viral hit among twenty-somethings on...

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Rat Queen debuts fresh evolution on new single "Circle the Drain"

But that hasn't been the case for Seattle' Rat Queen, the alt rock brainchild of songwriting partners and best friends, Jeff Tapia and Daniel Timothy Desrosiers. "My friendship with Daniel is hilarious and unconditional...

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Seattle's Brittany Danielle Lets It All Go on Latest Single "Hindsight"

But after spending years as a student of the classical and jazz greats, she's only just started to write, perform, and record music that is...

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Lily Henley Carries the Stories of Centuries of Sephardic Women on Oras Dezaoradas LP

Part Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jew, New York-based singer, songwriter and fiddler Lily Henley has been a lifelong student of various rich Jewish diasporic traditions. In particular, Henley has spent several years studying the Sephardic language, Ladino, an endangered language spoken by less than...

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Belltown Bloom Festival Returns to Seattle to Highlight Diverse Artists

Maiah Manser // Photo Credit: Anna Azarov Photography Delayed two years by COVID, Belltown Bloom, an all-ages festival created to bring the organizers' favorite bands together and highlight gender and racial diversity in the Seattle music scene, returns this weekend for its second official year....

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