What magic is this? A cross section of the region's most expressive, poetic, adventurous, REAL loop-based beat-makers and verbal gem-slangers gracing a mini-stage in the Central District's most righteous bike-shop??

Wait…WHAT?? All this shining shizzle is DONATION ONLY? And all-ages? TONIGHT??

GET IN! This event is precisely why your mama and papa gave birth to your naked earthly soul. Bring it, shake it, release it, repeat!

Check this massive line-up:

SIDE PONY: Free-wheeling female MCs Dalisha P. and Kristin B. speak of the erogenous avalanche of thick-girl liberation. Ride this joyous pony to the galloping psychedelic BEACON beat genius of DJ wailin' WD4D. Endless love.

WHITE RAINBOW: Elite PDX funk scientist SGT. ADAM FORKNER emerges TONIGHT from his underground chamber with his latest neurotoxic vibratory audio landscapes to release into your tender tissues. The technical PURPLE side of OREGON's chief diva-powered export, namely PURPLE & GREEN, Forkner pilots the pizza in classic kingly solo banger-mode TONIGHT. Rock on.

KATIE KATE: Seattle's original chill frantic female MC/BEAT-BUILDER presents her bad amazon self TONIGHT FOR YOUR EDUMACATION. KK is a cybersoul architect of the first rank, holding her ground fiercely, crushing like a scifi tigress. Seattle loves to argue that it's world-class. KATIE KATE produces the pop documents that prove the case. Priceless angry majestic forever may she wave.

METAL CHOCOLATES: Bring the hyphens! The grey matter-bending hyper-kinetic super-collision of Flint Michigan-spawned speedstyle electropoet RIK RUDE and genre-gobblin' MASTER DJ/MC hustle-professor OC NOTES smash all recorded music history into its novel energetic sub-partlcles, TONIGHT AT 20/20 CYCLE shouting out to the hero underdog kings and queens from Ancient Egypt to cardboard piss palaces blooming beneath the viaduct of this global dingdong shipyard metropolis. Trent Moorman brings live drum reality ground to this florid fractalicious escapade. Be the feeling. The masses are gonna win this world. TONIGHT.

TONIGHT from 7pm at 20/20 Cycle Shop. 2020 East Union in the PROUD HEART of Seattle's CENTRAL DISTRICT.

With love, sincerity and respect for all time and all people of peace, wisdom and dignity forever and before,

@DJfreeBOP / @CENTRALSOUNDS every wednesday 9 - 11pm SEATTLE

Seriously, it doesn't get any better than this! Trading Musician graciously donated a freaking $700 drumset to raffle off at our Teen Showcase at VERA for this years Magma Festival! Look at this thing - isn't she a beaut? You can win it for only $3 smackers. Just show up THIS SATURDAY (March 17th).

Must be present to win! But that's okay, because we have a ton of rad local teen bands from all over the state! Seattle locals Marchantia, Echo 9, Ton Null, Bellingham's Rat Riot, Kelso's Sea-cats and Special Explosion from the Eastside! Check out the facebook invite for more details! Would love to see you there!

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Here's a writeup about Friday's Magma Fest show at The Chapel Performance Space in Wallingford from the Stranger!

"(Friday's) Magma Fest lineup includes some of the Northwest's most rigorous experimental-music explorers. Perhaps best known of the lot is Stuart Dempster, trombonist for the Deep Listening Band, which features the great minimalist composer/accordionist Pauline Oliveros. Often recording in a massive Port Townsend cistern, Dempster is mainly interested in stately, ethereal drones that morph infinitesimally, suggesting a soundtrack for a utopian eternity of calm and peace. Cellist/bassist Paul Rucker's improvisations and compositions typically are augmented by, in his words, "infrared beams, lasers, touch pads... video, photography, animation, and large-format printing." Sounds and images pun with and complement one another with a cleverly playful intellectual heft. DAVE SEGAL"

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=13016707

While you're at it, check out the Nonsequitur blog for other experimental/improv music coming up in Seattle: http://nseq.blogspot.com/

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Hollow Earth Radio’s Magma Festival

Curated By Bad For Jazz + Table & Chairs

March 24, 2012 @ 7pm

Chapel Performance Space

Sliding scale donations

Hollow Earth Radio’s annual March-long Magma Festival has selected the improvisational happening organization Bad For Jazz and local out-jazz record label Table & Chairs to curate their slant on Seattle’s underground jazz offerings. Tonight’s event will feature four diverse performances by just a fraction of Seattle’s young and seasoned jazz interpreters. Aside from this unique grouping of performers, all artists are expected to improvise their sets, making this a one-of-a-kind happening not to brush off the radar of must-attend shows. Performance lineup as follows:

KING TEARS BAT TRIP – This rhythm-dynamic big beat septet consists of 5 drummers, 1 guitarist, and 1 saxophonist. Their tribal anxiety is iced-over w/ melodic near noise-toned guitar and bemoaning sax that shifts hinted themes into far off/far out improvisational breakdowns. This date will also see the digital release of their new album on band member Luke Bergman’s Table & Chairs Records. www.tableandchairsmusic.com

FIGEATER - Disjointed, amok-running, yet weaving explorations of innate genre fusing by multi- instrumentalist/vocalist Beth Fleenor. This quartet’s songlike psychedelic freakout episodes unsnap for punctuated improvisations that re-button into sonic spelunking. www.thefrankagency.org

WA– Sometimes a duo helmed by the breakneck guitarist/saxophonist Simon Henneman and percussionist Greg Klepligner. Sometimes a quartet w/ note annulling guitarist CJ Stout and the tonality totality of bicycle-playing/electronic artist Sean Lane. Always a lock on eureka performances, no matter the lineup. These veteran jazz chancers streamline sharp updates to 1960’s Impulse New-Thing into the duct of ever-inventiveness. http://www.tableandchairsmusic.com/artists/wa

T’TH & HARE – This ex Unfair Parents duo will be debuting what can only be expected to be flat out hyper noise jazz. The only reference can (ahem, will) mention is that the instrumentation will consist of Billy Safarik (formerly of MOUNTAINSS to boot) alternating between fleeting saxophone and guitar with drummer/trombonist Aaron Weinberg as the anchor. This evening’s wildcard indeed. (no link on purpose)

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Red Velvet. Rainbow Glitter. Rad Queers.

This Friday, March 9th! Magma Festival and Golden Daggers Vaudeville present a very Special Queer Variety Show!

Featuring:

Dave End (San Francisco) - With an accordion, a golden throat, and expertly-applied eyeshadow, Dave End may just change your life. She is equal parts Wizened Sage and Baudy Comic. Her one-person shows are glimpses into a glitter-dust universe. In one sentence: Dave End dazzles.

Clyde Peterson (SEA) - Clyde is an artwork powerhouse. Playing shows as Your Heart Breaks, presenting rad and raunchy experimental films, and generally hauling ass on everything from silk-screening to punk-quilting. This dude does it all. For Golden Daggers, he'll be screening shorts from his new and riotous queer animation series: Fanning the Flames of Faggot Lust.

Theo Hilton (SEA) - Theo has set hearts and minds on fire as part of the musical projects Defiance, Ohio and Nana Grizol. His songs are handhewn vignettes of punk ethics and cross-country friendships. He's a lyrical painter; a poet-wordsculptor.

At the Grand Illusion Cinema!
Doors at 9 pm
Show at 9:30 pm
$10