Soundside
Your favorite sounds of the Pacific Northwest
All this week, Soundside has heard from local sound artists about their quintessential sounds of the Pacific Northwest. We’ve heard coyotes howling across the Methow Valley, the bygone squeak of a metro bus, and the rhythm of melting snow. Along the way we’ve asked for your favorite Northwest s…
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Looking back at the best local albums of 2024
Are your music listening habits stuck in a rut? Did you open your Spotify Wrapped and realize you listened to the same five songs on an endless loop? Maybe you want to mix it up in 2025, and become more acoustically adventurous. Soundside is here to help you out - we've rounded up a panel of loc…
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Soundside's "Weekend Warmup" - Dec 20th-24th
Soundside is about to take a long and well deserved break, we’ve got some best-of shows planned for the holiday week, and we’re just generally excited to go DO some fun STUFF! And in that spirit, here’s somebody who has ALL the stuff worth doing: producer Jason Megatron Burrows with a few sneak pe…
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Is it still possible to "fix" Congress? Outgoing Congressman Derek Kilmer has hope
After almost 20 years in public office, Derek Kilmer is stepping down from his role as U.S. Representative for WA's 6th district. The Representative was chair of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress - sometimes called the “Fix Congress Committee” - from 2019 to 2023. He’s also …
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Transit workers call for safety improvements after fatal stabbing of Metro driver
Around 3:00am today, a King County Metro driver was fatally stabbed near the 4100 block of University Way in Seattle’s U-District. At a press conference this morning, King County Executive Dow Constantine said that the loss is being felt by everyone in county transit. "We are not always able to …
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KUOW's Ashley Hiruko breaks down the latest with Former SPD Chief Diaz
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has fired former Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz. The decision was announced Tuesday in a letter from the mayor to the Seattle City Council. Ashley Hiruko is a KUOW investigative reporter who has been covering news about former Chief Diaz for the past year. She joined…
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Redmond poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha talks about winning a National Book award, Palestine, and more
The light touch of tea glasses. Jasmine vines. Cigarette kisses. These are some of the images the Redmond-based poet, essayist, and translator Lena Khalaf Tuffaha conjures of Palestine in her most recent poetry collection, Something About Living. Last month, the collection earned Tuffaha the Nati…
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Listening to the rhythm of snow melting in the Pacific Northwest
What does the Northwest sound like to you? It’s a question we’ve asked local sound artists. And this week, we’ve been sharing some of their sound choices. Yesterday, Christopher DeLaurenti played a recording of the bygone squeak of a metro bus. Our next piece of tape comes from Gordon Hempton.…
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What does the NW sound like? Perhaps an old metro bus
What does the Northwest sound like to you? It’s a question we’re asking local sound artists. And, over the next week, we’ll be hearing some of those sounds. Yesterday, Perri Lynch Howard shared the sound of coyotes in the Methow Valley. Today’s sound has a bit more of a metropolitan flare. This …
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A grocery mega-merger just failed. Could it shape the future of antitrust?
Breakups are always hard. Especially when you’re two of the largest grocery mega-conglomerates in the country. Last week two judges – including a federal judge in Oregon and a superior court judge based in Seattle – officially blocked a merger between grocery chains Kroger and Albertsons. The com…
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