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John Medina/Getty Images Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie performs during the 2020 Innings Festival at Tempe Beach Park on March 1, 2020 in Tempe, Arizona. Livestream event will include Ben Gibbard, Perfume Genius, Foo Fighters, TV on the Radio, Jeff Rosenstock, No Age, Tacocat, Mike Park and more. The Vera Project is celebrating its 20th anniversary with Viva Vera 20, an online event honoring the Seattle nonprofit’s 20 years as a youth-led, community-oriented music and arts space that has come to serve as a blueprint for the national all-ages DIY community. Starting Wednesday (Jan...

Sheboygan, WI, USA / 106.5 The Buzz Jan 26, 2021 2:00 PM Foo Fighters , Death Cab for Cutie 's Ben Gibbard and TV on the Radio 's Tunde Adebimpe are all taking part in Viva Vera 20 , an online event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Seattle performance venue and arts education workshop The Vera Project. The Foos and Adebimpe will call in to share some virtual birthday wishes, while Gibbard will be performing during the stream. "The sense of community, and love for the space and the people who were in it, was immediate and palpable," says Adebimpe of The Vera Project. ...

Perfume Genius, Foo Fighters, and Benjamin Gibbard are set to appear on Viva Vera 20!, a livestream special celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first show at Seattle’s Vera Project. The show will be broadcast on VeraTV.org on Wednesday, January 27, at 7 p.m. Pacific and feature additional performances and birthday wishes from TV on the Radio, Jeff Rosenstock, No Age, Tacocat, Mike Park, and more. Activists Shannon Stewart, James Keblas, and Kate Becker founded VERA in Seattle in 2001 in response to the city’s Teen Dance Ordinance, a piece of legislation from 1985 that made all-ages co...

Danny Denial has announced a new monthly web series titled BAZZOOKA to launch at the end of the month. A follow-up to 2019’s independent film Eva Walker, and LÜCHI, Cozell Wilson, and Kylie Mooncakes for an apocalyptic tale of love, resistance, and the end of the world in the not-too-distant future. Set in June 2022 in a war-torn Seattle, a punk band of black anarchists battle familiar evils like tech billionaires, government officials, and overfunded police to take back their city. As with Kill Me To Death, which was loaded with local music features, BAZZOOKA is a music-heavy and p...

The Year Live Music Stopped Pitchfork 12/18/2020 © Graphic by Drew Litowitz On a cold, cloudy day near the end of 2020, I start walking toward my favorite venue. It’s an empty storefront now, with a loving tribute affixed to the door: a white poster with a cartoon drawing of a tombstone. “Vaudeville Mews: 2002-2020,” the epitaph reads. “Born to lose/Lived to win.” Flowers and two empty cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon hang from the bottom. I literally wouldn’t be here without this place. More than a decade ago, family ties and an affordable quality of life lured me and my wife back t...