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Live Nation plans new 5,500-capacity SoDo music venue
Live Nation and First Avenue Entertainment have announced plans for a new 5,500-capacity indoor music venue in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood....
You’ve probably heard his Daka mix or caught him as a special guest, and now, ToBeHonest is blazing his own...
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Rezz’s ‘PORTAL’ stuns fans and makes EDM history
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Gorge Amphitheatre offers stacked dance music lineup for 2026
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Excision’s Bass Canyon returns to the Gorge with Crankdat, Illenium, Slander, & more
Death Cab for Cutie makes homecoming for Bumbershoot 2026
Day Trip announces first-ever block party series in Seattle
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The Walk Club brings dance music and motion together across iconic Seattle locations
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The Dance Music Northwest team picks their favorite albums of 2023
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The Seattle Electronic Music Producers Association is helping elevate local producers’ sounds
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Apple Music launches Dolby Atmos-powered ‘Spatial Audio’ along with lossless tier
Live Nation and First Avenue Entertainment have announced plans for a new 5,500-capacity indoor music venue in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood....
Arguably the most scenic music venue in the world, the Gorge Amphitheatre hosts a wide array of concerts each year,...
DoLab hit us early with this year’s line up, and we’ve been so obsessed we had to take some time...
The wait is over! Bass Canyon returns to Washington for its eighth year, and the recently announced lineup is hotter...
A Seattle staple for over 50 years has unveiled its 2026 lineup. Bumbershoot is returning, and it’s bringing a beloved...
This summer in Seattle is shaping up to be a big one for house music. Day Trip, one of Seattle’s...
If you, like us, are enraptured by humanity’s return to the moon on Artemis II, Yuri’s Night at Seattle’s Museum...
Get ready to get wild — Midnight Tyrannosaurus is bringing his hard-hitting wubs back to the Emerald City. The bass-wrangling...
If the initial lineup announcement is Shambhala’s appetizer, the stage-by-stage lineups are the main course. The party started on Monday...
Last Wednesday, Fox Stevenson came to Seattle on his Sunk Cost Fallacy Tour to share his recently released full-length album....
It’s that time of year once again! The anticipation has begun, as one of the biggest electronic music festivals in...
This year Thunderdome took place at the same time as the Super Bowl, and lucky for us PNW natives, the...
If you were lucky enough to catch RÜFÜS DU SOL at the Gorge back in October 2022, when Fred Again…...
Outdoor concert lovers rejoice! Capitol Hill Block Party is returning for its 28th year this summer. CHBP 2026 will host...
HOLY WOW! After over a month of waiting, and watching the countless videos from the unveiling of Excisions new stage,...
The role of record labels in dance music has become more diverse and important since the growth of the genre exploded to...
As we touched briefly on the subject of music and what it means to try to define and personalize music, now...
This past December we all bid a fond farewell to Spectrum; a night that many of us in the bass...
It’s fair to say that the Trance scene in Seattle has been getting stronger and stronger over the past year....
When it became a new year, a new scene in Portland began to take shape. Tenth Degree & Booms and...
You would think that two guys who are no stranger to the high ranks of the DJ Mag Top 100...
When it comes to the finances of major festivals, people are generally in awe of the revenue generated or left with...
When asked ‘what is sound?’ Most people are unable to offer a sound definition. They may start listing off synonymous...
We at Dance Music Northwest love to represent our local scene as much as possible. That is the reason why...
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