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Live After 5: Fortunate Youth Hard to beat quality time in a beautiful park, and now that summer is making itself felt in the Inland Northwest, it’s hard to beat reggae providing the soundtrack for the season. Coeur d’Alene’s Live After 5 concert series turns McEuen Park into the most happening place in town every Wednesday through the summer, and next up welcomes Fortunate Youth. The SoCal-based sextet keeps its sound close to roots reggae, and they’ve found a significant audience since forming at a buddy’s birthday party in 2009 — three of their albums hav...

Poliça, Wilson It’s easy to become unmoored from reality when listening to Madness, the new album from Minneapolis-based electropop group Poliça. The instrumentation focuses primarily on texture, creating a sprawling soundscape that can feel infinite in every direction. Singer Channy Leaneagh uses this as a backdrop to deliver shimmering, abstract and emotive vocals. The sound of her (oft-distorted) voice sometimes feels like the only thing keeping us from floating away into the vast nothingness — a slack tether to humanity. If you’re seeking a counterbalance to...

Ani DiFranco Ani DiFranco isn’t folk because most of her singer/songwriter tunes center on acoustic guitar strumming. Ani DiFranco is folk because she embodies the characteristics that the genre’s forebearers possessed. She’s an activist, trailblazer, queer icon, truthseeker and independent spirit. She fits in with the early revivalist pioneers like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, the stars of the ’60s folk boom like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, her ’90s Lilith Fair contemporaries, and the songwriters she influenced. Her distinctive rhythmic playing and poetic lyrics s...

Brad Paisley When he’s not busy writing Nationwide jingles with Peyton Manning, it turns out Brad Paisley writes his own songs too. Good for him! All kidding aside, between 2005 and 2011 the West Virginian megastar released 17 straight singles that reached No. 1 or No. 2 on the country charts. In an era filled with lowest-common denominator pop country, Paisley’s songwriting almost feels like a classical throwback, focusing on ultra-sincere and sweet love songs (that occasionally come off a tad saccharine, but that’s preferable to artificiality). Dust off your boots and cowbo...

Beyond Wonderland Sure, the late afternoon sets start to bring the energy up when you’re at the Gorge for the EDM festival Beyond Wonderland, but everyone knows that sunset is the special time that ushers in the largest acts that are sure to have you dancing late into the night and spending time with some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Go down the PLUR (peace, love, understanding, respect) rabbithole and you’re likely to meet plenty of new friends, from a random rave mom who happens to have that piece of gum you need, to some tall dude with balloons and baby wipes who...