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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
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.
- Libby Denkmann
'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
Under the bridge: Seattle's renegade raves

Somewhere hidden deep in the snarl of train tracks and warehouses of Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood, there's live music that makes the ground shake. Tucked beneath a bridge is the dusty, gravel lot music lovers whisper about online.
- Megan Farmer
Seattle Opera brings the spiritual to the stage in 'Jubilee'

A new opera called "Jubilee" based on the Fisk University Jubilee Singers makes its world debut this month with the Seattle Opera.
- Alec Cowan
Seattle's underground rave scene is raging, from underpasses to rooftops

These days you can pay big bucks to go to a rave in Seattle, usually at a nightclub or even a stadium. But many ravers in town are looking for secret, underground shows. We went out to find these supposed "renegades."
- Casey Martin
Fastbacks, Karp, and Murder City Devils: Seattle serenaded KUOW with its indie roots

KUOW web editor Katie Campbell is rebuilding her Spotify library, and dozens of you fine KUOW readers stepped up to help.
- Katie Campbell

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