Everyone who ever played at What The Heck fest:
(with lots of broken links)
A Space City Intensive
An open, public reunion at Anchor Art Space
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A Telephone Call (film)
(BUFFALO, NY/OLYMPIA, WA) – an extended reading of A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker
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Aaron Flint Jamison
The point of his power might not be obvious.
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Adrian Orange
Outlaw anthems of life on the margins; Favela-core Latin American punk-hymns to Qaddafi and the insurgency.
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Angelo Spencer & Les Hauts Sommets
(OLYMPIA, WA/FRANCE) – Earth with Tinariwen, Karl Blau with Khaled, Oran and Olympia, Mt Rainier and the Sahara desert, kebab and kombucha
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Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat dan Singa
(OLYMPIA, WA) – between shamanic ecstacy, lunacy and “music”
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Broken Water
(OLYMPIA, WA) – the soundtrack for watching large icicles fall from high places, a heavy trip
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Bryan, Frank, and Bob
(ANACORTES) – featuring members of the Spoiled, the Few, Poundings Serfs, Gravel, Burl, Public Service, etc.
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Bryce Panic / Better Bizness Bureau
Groove Machine
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Burl
Anacortes old schoolers Bryan Elliott and Bobby Vaux of Gravel, the Pounding Serfs, Public Service, the Few, etc. record a new album after a 16 year hiatus.
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Calvin Johnson
(OLYMPIA, WA) – phantom limb of American Tradition in the flesh, flailing and stoic
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Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
hard luck kinds of situations and regular people with regular problems, amid huge synthetic beats and sad chords
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Chestnut Collection
(BELLINGHAM, WA) – guileless songs on the back on a friendly whale
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Cryptacize
the unforgettable melody, the forsaken chord and the extravagant sentiment
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Darrin Mathies
Great songs from this multi-instrumental film-maker.
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Dennis Driscoll
Go Ilwaco!!! The home from which this minstrel began to wander.
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Desolation Wilderness
Mapping a course without compass or sextant
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Dupond Et Dupont
Ce sont deux policiers qui travaillent en équipe.
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Earth
(SEATTLE, WA) – truly psychedelic, in a slow deep way, the way the core of the planet must sound
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Graves
“Ancient forms of courtship are resurrected and molded into what one can only hope will become a modern day norm”
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Guy Blackman
Sensitive piano ballads that aim to make straight white men feel slightly uncomfortable
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Harry Smith (films)
(ANACORTES PERSONALITY) – Anacortes’ most treasured/unknown former resident, discoverer of all counterculture, founder of art
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International Falls
Melodic to the max experimental analog fuzz music, home-recorded in British Columbia horse country.
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Jason Anderson
Jason shows us that none of us are too cool to have fun. This is OUR party!
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Johanna Kunin
Thanks so much for stopping by and lending your support!
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Karl Blau
(SAMISH ISLAND, WA) – It’s that grit in the oyster that forms the pearl, they say. Pisces is a slippery one. Play out the line; see where it takes you
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Katy Davidson the Jam Band
Katy Davidson the Jam Band featuring Katy Davidson jamming with the band on electric guitar
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Key Losers
(PORTLAND, OR/ARIZONA) – capitalism, transportation, networks, alienation, aggression, and Mexican food
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Khaela Maricich aka The Blow
Khaela works in the cracks between pop music and performance art
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Kimya Dawson
(OLYMPIA, WA) – ...one of those rare birds that make you feel like she needs you as much as you need her.
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LAKE
(OLYMPIA, WA) – traditional “pop” music from early 21st century North Pacific America
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Laura Veirs and Saltbreakers
ringing all the underwater underwater underwater bells
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Little Wings
Wood grain/crystal shards funneled through the latest wave of Big Sur revivalism
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Lloyd and Michael
(PORTLAND, OR) – Is “supergroup” super annoying to say?
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Lucky Dragons
fragile networks held together by such light things as skin contact, unfamiliar language, temporary logic, the spirit of celebration, and things that work but you don’t know why
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Matthew Stadler
(PORTLAND, OR) – He’s writing cover novels these days.
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Mirah
you think it’s, like, all, like THIS, but, like, really it’s, like, totally like this
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Motorbikes
(ANACORTES/ARKANSAS) – Not “What to do?” but “How to execute?”.
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Ô Paon
(ANACORTES/QUÉBEC) – real-life darknesses rearranged into song, in French
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Old Time Relijun
Confrontational dance music! American Primitive Deconstructionist Visionaries!
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PEACE
a socially-conscious jam-slam avalanche of killer hooks and fantastic grooves
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Rose Melberg
“A songwriter of simple grace with a real ability to cut through the haze of everyday life and hit you where it counts, gently but with lasting effects”
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Ruth Allison
Ruth is a Vegas ex-patriate who currently lives at the Department of Safety.
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Sheahan Drive
The darkest roads of Australia follow ancient songlines towards the Coast and set sail for Fidalgo Island.
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Ship Of Friends
you may find yourself putting your hands in
the air, waving ‘em, and furthermore, just not caring
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Stephen Steinbrink
(TEMPE, AZ) like Crazy Horse and later-era Arthur Russell
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