What The Heck Home

Everyone who ever played at What The Heck fest:

(with lots of broken links)
BB

"BB"

(GRAND RAPIDS/L.A.)
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Rich Jensen

A Space City Intensive

An open, public reunion at Anchor Art Space
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A Telephone Call (film)

A Telephone Call (film)

(BUFFALO, NY/OLYMPIA, WA) – an extended reading of A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker
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Flint, click to enlarge

Aaron Flint Jamison

The point of his power might not be obvious.
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Aaron Peck

Aaron Peck

(VANCOUVER, BC)
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Adrian Orange

Adrian Orange

Outlaw anthems of life on the margins; Favela-core Latin American punk-hymns to Qaddafi and the insurgency.
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Al Larsen

Al Larsen

Bring! Something! To! The Table!
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Alyse Emdur

Alyse Emdur

curiosity did not kill the cat
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AMIGO

Amigo

Brian Malloy is your amigo.
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Andrew Comedy Comedy

Andrew Comedy Comedy

(IOWA CITY, IA) – literally hilarious
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Angelo Spencer & Les Haut Sommets

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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Anna Oxygen

Anna Oxygen

Brings the party.
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Arrington de Dionyso

Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat dan Singa

(OLYMPIA, WA) – between shamanic ecstacy, lunacy and “music”
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Be Gulls

Be Gulls

a new supergroup featuring many familiar faces
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Birthday Present

Birthday Present

(ANACORTES) – born on your birthday
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Bitpart

Bitpart

(PARIS/OLYMPIA/TACOMA)
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Boating With Clyde

Boating With Clyde

(WATER WORLD)
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Bobby Birdman

Bobby Birdman

from acapella crooning to drum circle to laptop jamms
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Brave Irene

Brave Irene

(VANCOUVER, BC)
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Broken Water

Broken Water

(OLYMPIA, WA) – the soundtrack for watching large icicles fall from high places, a heavy trip
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Bryan and Bob (of Bryan, Frank and Bob)

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

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

Calvin Johnson

(OLYMPIA, WA) – phantom limb of American Tradition in the flesh, flailing and stoic
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C.F.T.P.A.

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

Chestnut Collection

(BELLINGHAM, WA) – guileless songs on the back on a friendly whale
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Cryptacize

Cryptacize

the unforgettable melody, the forsaken chord and the extravagant sentiment
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Cumulus

Cumulus

(BELLINGHAM, WA) – torch songs and sing-alongs
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D+

D+

(ANACORTES)
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Darrin Mathies

Great songs from this multi-instrumental film-maker.
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Dennis Driscoll

Dennis Driscoll

Go Ilwaco!!! The home from which this minstrel began to wander.
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Desolation Wilderness

Desolation Wilderness

Mapping a course without compass or sextant
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Dupond Et Dupont

Dupond Et Dupont

Ce sont deux policiers qui travaillent en équipe.
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Earth

Earth

(SEATTLE, WA) – truly psychedelic, in a slow deep way, the way the core of the planet must sound
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Faerie Talk

Faerie Talk

Fellow Faerie lover you have found your home!
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Fanny Alger

Fanny Alger

Dudes love the Fanny.
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Fire Island AK

Fire Island, AK

the sound of two hands holding
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For The Birds

For The Birds

(WHIDBEY ISLAND, WA)
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Generifus

Generifus

young echoey wonder from Redmond
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Goodtime John, click to enlarge

Goodtime John

Goodtime John is mainly Dublin born John Cowhie
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Graves, click to enlarge

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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Grouper

Grouper

the dream world summoned and widened
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Guy Blackman

Guy Blackman

Sensitive piano ballads that aim to make straight white men feel slightly uncomfortable
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Harry Smith

Harry Smith (films)

(ANACORTES PERSONALITY) – Anacortes’ most treasured/unknown former resident, discoverer of all counterculture, founder of art
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Hornet Leg

Hornet Leg

Chris Sutton, Dub Narcotic alum
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Hungry Cloud Darkening

Hungry Cloud Darkening

(ANACORTES)
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International Falls

International Falls

Melodic to the max experimental analog fuzz music, home-recorded in British Columbia horse country.
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James Sumner

James Sumner

self-taught itenerant animator
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The Robot Ate Me

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

Johanna Kunin

Thanks so much for stopping by and lending your support!
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Juice Team DJs

Juice Team DJs

excellent music choosers
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Karl Blau

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

Katy Davidson the Jam Band featuring Katy Davidson jamming with the band on electric guitar
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Key Losers

Key Losers

(PORTLAND, OR/ARIZONA) – capitalism, transportation, networks, alienation, aggression, and Mexican food
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The Blow

Khaela Maricich aka The Blow

Khaela works in the cracks between pop music and performance art
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Kickball

Kickball

Be your own freakin’ rainbow
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Kimya Dawson

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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L.A.K.E.

LAKE

(OLYMPIA, WA) – traditional “pop” music from early 21st century North Pacific America
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Laura Leif

Laura Leif

(CALGARY, AB)
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Laura Veirs

Laura Veirs and Saltbreakers

ringing all the underwater underwater underwater bells
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Liarbird

Liarbird

A fabulous soundtrack to an evening spent by a fire.
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Tom Blood

Little Wings

Wood grain/crystal shards funneled through the latest wave of Big Sur revivalism
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Liturgy

Liturgy

(BROOKLYN, NY) – “pure transcendental black metal”
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Lloyd and Michael

Lloyd and Michael

(PORTLAND, OR) – Is “supergroup” super annoying to say?
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Lois

Lois

(OLYMPIA, WA)
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Lucky Dragons

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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Marsten

Marston

Cosmic-cowgirl music by Jodie-Jean Marston
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Matthew Stadler

Matthew Stadler

(PORTLAND, OR) – He’s writing cover novels these days.
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Mecca Normal

Mecca Normal

(VANCOUVER, BC)
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Mirah

Mirah

you think it’s, like, all, like THIS, but, like, really it’s, like, totally like this
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Motorbikes

Motorbikes

(ANACORTES/ARKANSAS) – Not “What to do?” but “How to execute?”.
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Mt Eerie

Mount Eerie

(ANACORTES) – pastoral mythology
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Mouseheart Factor

Mouseheart Factor

moody and melodic
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Nate Ashley

Nate Ashley

Classy tunes from a classy fellow.
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Nicholas Krgovich

Nicholas Krgovich

(VANCOUVER, BC)
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Nicholas Wilbur

Nicholas Wilbur

(ANACORTES/ARKANSAS) – plunky fuzz pop
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Ô Paon

Ô Paon

(ANACORTES/QUÉBEC) – real-life darknesses rearranged into song, in French
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Juice Team DJs

Old Time Relijun

Confrontational dance music! American Primitive Deconstructionist Visionaries!
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Peace

PEACE

a socially-conscious jam-slam avalanche of killer hooks and fantastic grooves
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Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis

plant pop
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Privacy

bare, simple, and original folk music
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Purple & Green

Purple & Green

(PORTLAND, OR)
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Bob Arellano

Robert Arellano

Cuban-American novelist, Havanarama frontman
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Ropin' The Wind

Ropin' The Wind

(SEATTLE, WA) – grunge-ish Garth Brooks covers?
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The Robot Ate Me

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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Rose Melberg

Rose Melberg

sad and beautiful and close
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Run Chico Run

Run Chico Run

Canadian content!
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Ruth Allison

Ruth Allison

Ruth is a Vegas ex-patriate who currently lives at the Department of Safety.
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Sam Lohmann

Sam Lohmann

(PORTLAND, OR)
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Sandman

Sandman

Chris Sand lives in North Dakota
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Sheahan Drive

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

Ship Of Friends

you may find yourself putting your hands in the air, waving ‘em, and furthermore, just not caring
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Sleepy Lagoon

Sleepy Lagoon

(ANACORTES)
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Slobberbone

slobberbone

cool dudes
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The Robot Ate Me

Solvents

whole earth vision
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Homestyle, click to enlarge

Spoonshine

Fidalgo’s premier world-grass combo
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Squid Vs. Shark

Squid Vs. Shark

”...quirky, catchy, danceable indie-pop jams…”
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ST Rainbow Found Sound Collage

ST Rainbow Found Sound Collage

(SEATTLE, WA)
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Stephen Steinbrink

Stephen Steinbrink

(TEMPE, AZ) like Crazy Horse and later-era Arthur Russell
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