Every year Hollow Earth Radio throws a great big month long festival called Magma Festival. All the proceeds from this festival help support the station for the next year by covering operation costs. Shows for the festival occur every weekend in the month of March with this year having a total of 10 shows and about 50 different bands.

Last year, on the second weekend of December, Hollow Earth Radio hosted an event that was referred to as the Holiday Record Swap. I was elsewhere in the country but wished very much that I could attend the event. This year, however, I have the opportunity to attend the event and experience a hopefully more intense experience than what I was told of it last year. This year the event is called Swap It, Spin It, Bring It, Screen It.

Please picture this for one moment: a keyboard and drum factories both blow up at the same time, propelling multiples of each instrument into the air… About five seconds later, a plane carrying a gong drops it’s payload. All these instruments land- intact- into a school playground where thirty kindergartners on massive sugar highs then merge [...]

For the past eight years there has been an event occurring called Total Fest. Since it’s been occurring for eight years, this will make it it’s eighth year.
I knew nothing about Total Fest so searched the internet for about five minutes until I found the necessary contact information to find out who I could talk [...]

Whatever state the music and DIY scene is in Vancouver, Canada, I am unclear of what it would be. One night is hardly enough to really investigate it thoroughly but from what I gathered, things are pretty underground in regards to shows put on.
If there are any public spaces that put on events usually they [...]

Ladyfests have been occurring for a while since it’s original inception in August 2000 in Olympia, Washington. In the years since, it has been an locally organized in communities nationally to internationally from Honolulu, Hawaii to Mexico to Toulouse, France and to Johannesburg, South Africa. This year a Ladyfest will blossom out from the quaint [...]