Music

If you're in the know, you can find the gravel parking lot where this DIY music scene lives.

When the pandemic canceled all her tours, the leader of indie rock band Black Belt Eagle Scout, Katherine Paul returned to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s homelands in western Washington. The experience shaped her latest record “The Land, The Water, The Sky.”

16 producers will compete for a prize of $1,000 by impressing a panel of judges with their original beats. The annual Beat Masters event is put on by 206 Zulu.

Seattle's Lavender Country put out a significant album in 1973: the first gay country album ever. The only problem was nobody heard it — and nobody wanted to hear it, either. But Lavender Country got rediscovered. A new generation was ready and brought the band back to life.

You've been hearing music from Isaiah J. Thompson's album "Isaiah J. Thompson Plays the Music of Buddy Montgomery" on KNKX's Midday and Evening Jazz. Learn more about this exceptional young artist.

Live music has started to return to Seattle, but many artists are still struggling financially after a year and a half of missed opportunities. To answer the growing need, a group of local musicians partnered with The Reef dispensary to create a fund to help artists get back on their feet.

Musical multi-hyphenate Brandi Carlile has another trophy for her shelf as she won artist of the year at the 2021 Americana Honors and Awards show. The Grammy-winning artist said that being named the top artist during a pandemic was “profound” at the awards show in Nashville on Wednesday night.

Jazz host Abe Beeson reviews new jazz albums honoring classic rock and reggae groups. Dave McMurray plays the Grateful Dead; Led Zeppelin's rock meets the Bob Franceschini, Kevin Hays, Orlando LeFleming, Obed Calvaire quartet; organ trio 2B3 digs into Jimi Hendrix, and the duo Acute Inflections interprets the music of Bob Marley and the Wailers.

All Blues host John Kessler spoke with Larkin Poe's Rebecca and Megan Lovell about their new live album and staying busy during the pandemic.

Walruses have a huge vocabulary of sounds. They whistle, they grunt, and they can even sound like a steam train.But, Rosemary Ponnekanti says, they also…