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HER's Hot Sexy Magma Festival Set To Go Off This Weekend

March 2nd, 2011

All you smart alecks are prolly hip to this noise already, but in case you isn’t, I’m here to remind: Hollow Earth Radio’s annual Magma Festival begins this Friday, March 4th. This 3-week-long event has been blowin’ up for a few years now, and armed with a brand new studio and all sorts of contacts/friends/facebookers, I’m sure it’s going to be even better than previous iterations.

Hollow Earth Radio is a free-form internet “radio” station devoted to everything you’ve never heard before (plus some stuff you have, natch), and they do a peerless job of unearthing hidden gem after hidden gem. The station is flagshipped in the Central District (a ‘hood I now call my own), and, thanks to a wildly successful Kickstarter project last May, were able to renovate an existing space to house all their crap recording gear. Right next door to the Central Cinema, bee-tee-double-u.

HER is offering festival passes for a $60 donation which gets you into all 10 shows—that’s 6 measly clams a pop—and they’re even offering a traveling light rail show. Basically a bunch of weirdos playing instruments while the light rail darts to and fro the southern regions of Seattle. In other words, awesome. Now, will this whole musical ordeal actually be “hot” and/or “sexy”? I can say, metaphorically, YES (though I’m sure there are some rrrreal hotties in those bands listed below; I’M LOOKING AT YOU, SPURM). And they’ve even managed to scatter the shows across Seattle’s boroughs, so find one near you!

Here’s the schedule (pretty sure each show is all ages), click the links for cool posters:

March 4: The Vera Project | 8pm | 305 Harrison Street in Seattle Center
Tender Forever
Spurm
R. Stevie Moore (via the Internet)
Kristin Allen-Zito
Pwrfl Power
$9 with club card / $10 without

March 5: Traveling Light Rail Show | Meet @ 5:30pm at International District Light Rail Station
Racer Sessions – Tahoe Jackson – Toy Boats – Jordan O Jordan – Jamey Braden -
Forrest Friends – Walrus Machine – Paul Hoskin – The Beaconettes – Movitas – Led to Sea
Free music, pay transit fare before boarding

Aftershow @ Radar Hair & Records | 8pm | 2724 1st Ave. S. (SODO)
Ya Ho Wa 33
Hound Dog Taylor’s Hand
Rob Walmart
Sugar Skulls
Kaleidosaur
$8-$20 sliding scale

March 6: NW Tribute to “One Foot In The Grave” | Hollow Earth Radio Studio | 7pm |2018 E Union St (Central District)
Pica Beats – Cock & Swan – 1985 – Webelos – Levi Fuller -
ST Rainbow – Brad Dunn – Urban Outfitters plus more!
$5

March 11: Washington Hall | 8pm | 153 14th Avenue (Central District)
The Hive Dwellers
NighTraiN
Militant Child
Alex Miranda
$9

March 12: Healthy Times Fun Club | 9pm | (Capitol Hill)
Broken Water
Stickers
Kunt Kuntroll
Santee

March 18: The Chapel Performance Space | 7pm Sharp | 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. 4th floor (Wallingford)
Mecca Normal
Ô Paon
Sue Ann Harkey
$10-$20 sliding scale

March 19: The Chapel Performance Space | 7pm Sharp | 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. 4th floor (Wallingford)
Michael Hurley
Jason Dodson (of the Maldives)
Shana Cleveland & The Sand Castles
$10-$20 Sliding Scale

March 20: CENTRAL SOUNDS Radio Show Presents | Hollow Earth Radio Studio | 6-9pm | 2018 E Union St (Central District)
DJ/MC/Spoken Word Open Grind
with Special Guests
$5

March 25: 20/20 Cycle | 8pm | 2020 E Union St (Central District)
Tin Tree Factory
Polka Dot Dot Dot
Bicycle Choir
Tiffany Lin
$8

March 26: The Mine | 6pm | 5113 Russell Ave NW (Ballard)
Tit Pig – Witch Gardens – Partman Parthorse – Mountainss – Night Shirt – Man Rockwell – Pocket Panda – DJ Ingebling
Sliding Scale $10-$20