Smokey Brights have been steadily growing out of the mossy Pacific Northwest city of Seattle forover a decade. The band, formed by friends working together at a pizza restaurant, has roots inSeattle’s DIY punk, songwriter, and psych scenes. Through the group’s four LP and three EPreleases, you can hear Smokey Brights’ sonic branches stretching through 70’s prog, synthy newwave bops, fuzzy 90’s anthems, and intimate indie storytelling. You can also trace the lives andromance of songwriters Ryan Devlin and Kim West who married a few years after the formationof the band. The couple’s entangled approach to songwriting and melody has yielded aremarkable amount of original, genre bending music. Nick Krivchenia’s steady, stylish drummingis the backbone of the Smokeys’ sound, while bassist Luke Rägnar adds low end bounce as wellas a third harmony to Ryan and Kim’s melodies. The band’s music has been featured in film,television, video games, and podcasts. They’ved toured throughout the US as well as the UK andmainland Europe. Their most recent releases, 2023’sBroken TooEP andLevitatorLP, bothlanded on iconic radio station KEXP’s top 90.3 records of the year

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Bellflower is a Bellingham-based band with four members: Electra, Eric, Lauren, and Liam. Bellflower strives for a sound that blends indie rock, folk, Americana, and alt music with a lyrical focus. Their first single Sleepwalking was released in June 2022, and the band is working on new music, with release dates to be announced soon!