The third semifinals for this year’s EMP Sound Off! brought winner Emma Lee Toyoda just one step closer to winning the entire competition. One Above Below None, Mystery Machines and Righteous Minds made it through as well to the finals. By the way, Mystery Machines have a song called “Vlad Putin,” who has apparently moved […]
Sound Off!, the annual band competition for artists under 21, turned 14 in 2015! Open to musicians from Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia (or, as we know it, the Pacific Northwest), the event began this year with Bleachbear, Champagne Babylon, Nightspace and Super Soaked competing in Semfinals #1. And the winner of this round? Bleachbear, […]
Did your favorite win the Sound Off! 2013 Finals? If so, that favorite was Dave B., a hip-hop artist from Seattle. Nabbing second place was Puyallup’s SHEBEAR and taking third place was the Fame Riot, a Tacoma-based glam duo – one of them had Dance Tax Free written across his chest, protesting the proposed dance […]
EMP Sound Off! 2013 held the Sound Off! Semifinals #3 on Saturday, February 23rd. And the winner was . . . As It Starts!, a Seattle sextet who lists the Fray and Death Cab for Cutie as influences. Bellingham’s Vervex got the Wild Card spot, while Gig Harbor’s Eye for Eye and another Bellingham act, […]
Puyallup, Washington’s SHEBEAR beat the competition in Sound Off! 2013‘s Semifinals #2, which were held at EMP on February 16th. The only definite band they’ll face in the finals is Semifinals #1 winner, the Fame Riot; Dave B. and Maiah Manser secured wild card spots. Tomorrow, February 23rd Semifinals #3 goes down at EMP at […]