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Freakout Records
Freakout Festival is an annual four-day underground music festival held at various venues around the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle each November. Since 2013, this festival has featured a mix of independent and mainstream performers, and has garnered press from around the globe. The programming primarily focuses on rock and roll, punk, and psychedelic rock music, but has also been known to include hip-hop, electronic and more experimental forms of music. Headliners have included icons of garage, punk and psychedelic music such as The Seeds, Kid Congo Powers, Os Mutantes and Los Dug Dug's, alongside more contemporary artists such as the Night Beats, All Them Witches, Viagra Boys and Alex Maas of The Black Angels. In 2021, '' The Stranger'' named Freakout Festival "Seattle's Best Festival". The organizers behind Freakout Festival also run the associated record label, Freakout Records, which has operated since 2015, releasing an eclectic mix of rock and roll records from the Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underground Music
Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, Popular music, mainstream popular music culture. Underground styles lack the commercial success of popular music movements, and may involve the use of avant-garde or abrasive approaches. Underground music may be perceived as expressing sincerity and creative freedom in opposition to those practices deemed formulaic or market-driven. Notions of individuality and non-conformity are also commonly deployed. The term has been applied to artists in styles such as psychedelic music, psychedelia, punk music, punk, alternative rock, electronica, industrial music, and wider strains of experimental music. Overview The term "underground music" has been applied to various artistic movements, for instance the psychedelic music movement of the mid-1960s, but the term has in more recent decades come to be defined by any musicians who tend to avoid the trappings of the mainstream commercial music industry. Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Angels (band)
The Black Angels are an American psychedelic rock band from Austin, Texas.Hannah LevinReview of ''Passover'' '' The Stranger'', Apr 13 – Apr 19, 2006. Accessed 7 October 2006. Formed in May 2004, they took their name from the Velvet Underground's " The Black Angel's Death Song". They have released six studio albums and one compilation album. History Early Years (2004–2005) In 2005, the Black Angels were featured on a dual-disc compilation album of psychedelic music called ''Psychedelica Vol. 1'' from Northern Star Records. This, along with the growing popularity of their MySpace page, gave the band a jump in popularity in the underground scene. ''Passover'' and ''Directions to See a Ghost'' (2006–2009) The group's debut LP, ''Passover,'' released in 2006, was generally well received in the underground independent rock community and was noted for its dark tones and lyrical content. A review of ''Passover'' described them as "Walking in the shadows cast by Spiritual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |