the secretly-important compendium

secretly-important: Exposing the hidden music of the pacific northwest and beyond.

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@thisiskairos from their EP release show at the Crocodile. #kairos #lenasimon #indiepop #music #seattle #washington #pnw

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How was your lunch? Mine was pretty damn good. Meagan Grandall of @lemolomusic in Occidental park, Seattle. #lunchshow #meagangrandall #lemolo #pnw #seattle #occidentalpark #dreampop #washington

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Meagan Grandall of @lemolomusic performing at the Sunset in Ballard for the second songwriters night. #meagangrandall #lemolo #sunsettavern #ballard #seattle #pnw #washington #music

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@jdobson_mansen of @deepseadiver_music performing at @nectarlounge in Fremont as part of the @rbsoundselect series. #jessicadobson #deepseadiver #nectarlounge #redbull #soundselect #seattle #pnw #music

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@dudeyork just absolutely killing it at the Crocodile. #dudeyork #peterrichards #crocodile #seattle #pnw #music

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This is next Monday and you could win yourself 2 tickets a copy of the @thisiskairos EP and a Fin Records tshirt, just follow us on twitter @secretly_import or "like" us on Facebook. Friday is the last day to enter. #kairos #lenasimon #finrecords #crocodile #seattle #music #giveaway

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Naomi Wachira covering the song Heartbeat by Nneka, for the Second Songwriters night at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard, Seattle. This was part of a night organized by Tim Wilson of Ivan and Alyosha, for local singers/songwriters to try out new material, play old favorites, and covers.

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Matt Bishop of Hey Marseilles performing a song he'd finalized just two hours prior to performance, at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard, as part of a songwriters night organized by Tim Wilson of Ivan and Alyosha. This is what makes these nights so special, this song was so new, it was essentially the first time he'd ever really played it for anyone, and it was in front of a live audience.

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Matt Bishop of Hey Marseilles performing a new song at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard as part of the songwriters night organized by Tim Wilson of Ivan and Alyosha. Of all the performances I've ever seen this might have been one of the most magical performances ever. When he asked the audience to join in on the chorus, and they did, wow... just wow.

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Meagan Grandall (Lemolo) covering the song Twice, by Little Dragon, for Songwriters night at the Sunset Tavern, organized by Tim Wilson of Ivan and Alyosha. Twice as Little Dragon plays it is a great song, but Meagan really improves on it here, making it better.

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Meagan Grandall (Lemolo) performing a new song which I remember as being called Fuel, but I could be wrong, at Songwriters night at the Sunset Tavern. This was part of a night organized by Tim Wilson of Ivan and Alyosha, for songwriters to try out new songs. I really loved this song by Meagan, it has the elegantly dark tone that so many Lemolo songs have.

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Ben Fisher performing his song Amelia from his first album Heavy Boots and Underwood, for the Second Songwriters night at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard, Seattle. This was part of a night organized by Tim Wilson of Ivan and Alyosha, for local singers/songwriters to try out new material, play old favorites, and covers.

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Naomi Wachira performing her song Don't You Know, for the Second Songwriters night at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard, Seattle. This was part of a night organized by Tim Wilson of Ivan and Alyosha, for local singers/songwriters to try out new material, play old favorites, and covers.

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Deep Sea Diver performing a new song at Neumos for their 2013 Christmas show. I've seen them play this song a couple different times and it just keeps getting better and better.

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Deep Sea Diver performing You Go Running at their 2013 Christmas show at Neumos. Really love how funky Jessica Dobson gets on the guitar part here. It's unfortunate that the mic on my camera gets so blown out at parts... this was a loud show, and even on the lowest setting it was killing the mic.

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Kris Orlowski performs a new song at a songwriters night organized by Tim Wilson of Ivan and Alyosha at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard. According to Kris, this song wasn't but two weeks old when he brought it to the stage on this night.

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Jessica Dobson and Peter Mansen, Deep Sea Diver, perform a new untitled song, the music written by Peter, with work in progress lyrics written by Jessica. Really loved this song, and found there to be something really stunning about Jessica's vocals here, not sure why but I had a really emotional response them.