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  • Washington State, come for the music and don't mind the serial killers.

    • come for the music

      The vast majority of musicians from Washington moved to big cities outside of Washington state. Dave Grohl of Nirvana is in Los Angeles, Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill moved to NYC and then to California. King Buzzo from the Melvins is still a local, but then he never made mainstream notoriety like Grohl or Hanna.

      Washington isn't the cultural powerhouse it used to be, it's been hollowed out by giant corporations. Rents are insane and it's not possible to be a weird artist here anymore, even in cheaper cities like Olympia. I mean fuck, K Records had to sell their building they're doing so bad financially.

      There are still local and small bands, sure, but the scene is thriving far less than it used to, and COVID really killed the last vestiges of it.

        • Dave Matthews
        • Eddie Vetter

        That's all I got, lol

      • Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, The head and the heart, Odesza and Owl City? Owl City had multiple hits with one mega hit and Odesza puts on one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were on repeat everywhere for a year plus… these were all big names within the last 15~ years and Odesza is probably the youngest of them that started only in 2012. If you haven’t seen Owl City also I would highly recommend. Super talented and a ton of fun.

        Of course they don’t live in Washington much anymore though. They have support structures setup in LA now. There’s better recording studios, talent managers, brand managers, business managers and other support personnel for artists that stick to LA as it’s really the only area like it in the world.

        Washington is super affordable compared to other high income states. I have a ton of family who all live up there and bitch about how expensive their $500k homes are while making 6 figure salaries in blue collar jobs. It’s a great state to live in and raise a family as well. I try to get up there once a year to just get out and enjoy the fresh air and their better national parks over Cali’s.

        COVID killed a ton of creative places even here in Cali. It’ll be a while before they’re back to life before Covid.

        Also, what’s a “Bikini Kill”….

      • Brandi Carlisle, though she lives outside of Seattle (suburbs)

  • Remember that last season of Dexter, “new blood,” where he lives in a mountain town and works in a hunting and fishing store?

    Why wasn’t his final target a serial killing prospector?

  • I was wondering what kind of idiot falls for something like that, but apparently, the victims kept $15k in their cars as well as bricks, so...maybe not the brightest of the bunch.

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