Shout out to local rockers Neptune’s Core, who name checked White Mystery in their interview with 102.7 KIIS FM. Here’s the excerpt:
Who are some of your biggest music influences?
“The Chicago music scene has been very supportive and encouraging of us. It’s a very healthy and friendly scene. Artists like OHMME, Twin Peaks, LaLaLaLa, Dehd, VV Lightbody, Whitney, White Mystery and Liam Kazar and venues like Schubas, Double Door, City Winery, Fitzgeralds and Martys have treated us like a real band since we were young when we first began. That has always provided confidence in allowing us to explore our music.”
For two decades, The Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest (GAAF) has presented a free, weekend-long arts festival featuring 120+ artists, open studios, and live entertainment on two outdoor stages. This year White Mystery curated a lineup of 30+ live bands and a focus on an inclusive experience for guests with disabilities.
White Mystery
“Music and art are intertwined, and Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest is a perfect example of where the two creative forms meet.”
Monarchy Over Monday
“Music is art, everything around us is art, everything influences our art.”
Coyote Man
“Our music is instrumental and takes the listeners imagination on a journey to different emotions.”
Ovef Ow
“One of the most energizing and rewarding aspects of making music is the way it opens up opportunities to collaborate with artists of different mediums.”
Wild Earp & The Free for Alls
“Music is art (yes even country western music), and our music is just a way to try to make sense of and give added significance to the human condition. We love to use different media to create and inform the world of the band and the characters, from concept albums to radio plays to coloring books. Art exists in a conversation with reality, and that’s especially true in how we perceive the American West, our country’s history, and its relationship to country music. We’re having fun within that conversation, and are trying to be responsible with how we use it.”
Clickbait
“Art is what fills in the spaces we leave in our music. The audience adds what they want to hear, we just provide the skeleton of dance music.”
Bev Rage & the Drinks
“As a queer band, we aim to push boundaries in our music, live show, costuming, and audience interaction. It is all influenced by our individual art, and pieced together into a big ol’ loud gay mess. An artistic mess with a vision, though.”
Funkadesi
“We are inspired by art, where culture, identity, and belonging are all at play. Expression of our full humanity is at the core of our music.”
Tierra Roja
“Art is part of our culture, when arranging our music we often bring pieces into perspective from Mexican Artists. “
Tamarie T and the Elektra Kumpany
“Art influences my music greatly, I feel like my music is what a painting would look like transformed into sound. Music is a vibrational form of art.”
Bianca Shaw
“I feel as if I’m painting a vivid picture through music for my audience. Art helps refresh my perspective around topics, with visual art I receive messages that inspire me to create a new form of art through music.”
Tinkerbelles
“People are starting to figure out that experiences are worth more than possessions. The experience of art is more valuable and when you know that you incorporate it into everything you do.”
Tommy Carroll’s Calculated Discomfort
“The arts highlight alternative and better futures for the world that I want my music to soundtrack.”
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate
“I am a visual artist primarily, with a degree in Painting, so i always think of sound as textural and creating a mood, like the best visual art does–and the best art of any type takes you to another place completely.”
Waltzer
Stories with sounds and colors inspire me to write, because those are the only stories I understand. – Sophie Sputnik”
Duke Davenport
“Art imitates life imitates life imitates art. Is it even art when it’s your life? You be the judge.”
Cass Cwik & the Small Gas Engines
“We derive our music from early folk and rock and roll roots to the more improvised sounds of the Grateful Dead.”
Osmium House
“(Visual) Art is influential for our music because it is a vessel to help convey the aesthetic of our music! Visual art sets the scene for musical voyages!”
Joanna Connor Band
“The passion and honesty of America’s greatest musical gift to the world, and all popular music of the 20th and 21st centuries and the expressiveness of my chosen instrument- the guitar, are all vehicles that communicate my humanity and life experience to the works at large.”
AIR CREDITS
“Air Credits is a band that exists in multiple timelines, their music is influenced by the art of every generation, even the ones that haven’t happened yet.”
The Polkaholics
“THE POLKAHOLICS are a Chicago band that plays a high-speed collision of polka and rock ‘n roll!”
Urban Rhythm Band
“Diverse group of musicians from Haiti Philippines and Africa with American Indian influence our music style.”
Seattle’s Freakout fest will hold its ninth edition this fall from November 11-14 at venues Tractor Tavern, Salmon Bay Eagles Club, Sunset Tavern, Conor Byrne, Hotel Albatross, Caffe Umbria, and CC Filson. This year’s lineup includes garage rock icons The Seeds, Matthew Dear, Seattle sludge greats Big Business, Cedric Burnside, Liz Cooper & The Stampede, reggae vet Clinton Fearon (The Gladiators), The Mystery Lights, Triptides, White Mystery, Vacant Lots, and more.
This year, Freakout has partnered with Mexico’s NRMAL Festival to curate a lineup of Latinx artists, including AJ Davila, Colombian electronic artist Cerrero, as well as Petite Amie, Margaritas Podridas, Myuné, Par Ásito, Carrion Kids and Los Honey Rockets.
Freakout is also highlighting Seattle’s Black rock scene with performances from Shaina Shepherd (who is signed to Freakout Records), The Black Tones, Beverly Crusher, Black Ends, King Youngblood, Marshall Law Band, and and Urban Heat.
Tickets for Freakout 2021 are on sale now and you can check out the full lineup, and listen to the official playlist featuring this year’s acts, below.
FREAKOUT FEST – 2021 LINEUP Cedric Burnside Liz Cooper & The Stampede The Seeds Big Business The Mystery Lights Matthew Dear Jamie Wyatt Levitation Room Clinton Fearon Acid Tongue The Vacant Lots Jarv Dee White Mystery Triptides Shaina Shepherd AJ Davila No Joy The Shivas Manatee Commune Smokey Brights Cerrero The Schizophonics Petite Amie Thee Sacred Souls Ohtis ZOPA (feat. Michael Imperioli) Michael Rault Evolfo The Grizzled Mighty Margaritas Podridas Pearl Charles Los Esplifs The Black Tones Hooveriii Beverly Crusher You Said Strange Monsterwatch Shadow Show Urban Heat PROVOKER Mala Suerte Death Bells Terror/Cactus Carrion Kids TeZATalks Tres Leches Par Ásito Black Ends Myuné Sebastian Adé King Youngblood Talaya. & Brandon Marsalis Los Honey Rockets Nathan Nzanga Jenny Don’t and the Spurs Chris King & The Gutterballs Caitlin Sherman Tennis Pro Biblioteka Stephanie Anne Johnson & The Hidogs,Warren Dunes Bird Language General Mojo’s Wild Powwers Spirit Mother Smoker Dad BOLERO! Boy Deluxe GLENN (ILLFIGHTYOU) Reposado The Copper Trees
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