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Holy Smokes

Holy Smokes was essentially born out of frustration — a detail unrelated to the development of its name, yet fitting if you think about a…

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Laurel Halo

Waiting at Victoria’s Swartz Bay terminal, browsing Instagram, I came across a picture from Laurel Halo’s account, taken in Puget Sound presumably on a return…

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Fountain

“After you’re a band for a bit, you’re trying to go after a feeling more than a sound, just trying to make it more eclectic.”

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Pretty Good Not Bad Festival

Picture yourself in an indoor climbing gym. A fancy, state of the art one, with walls forming angles you didn’t think possible for the human body…