Salty’s on Alki Beach is without a doubt Seattle’s premier all-you-can-eat brunch experience. Located on the waterfront in West Seattle, Salty’s offers an amazing array of food options, impeccable service and fantastic views overlooking Elliott Bay and the Seattle city skyline. The real star of Salty’s, though, is the food and you won’t leave here hungry.…
Gdynia, Poland – Seattle sister city since 1993 Seattle has been sister cities with Gdynia, Poland since 1993. The Seattle-Gdynia Sister City Association sponsors a number of events locally. The SGSCA has organized and sponsored the annual Seattle Polish Film Festival every year since 1992. The Association is also a sponsor of the Polish Seattle…
Metalhead (Málmhaus) is an Icelandic film from 2013 that played in Seattle as part of the 2015 Nordic Lights Film Festival. Directed by Ragnar Bragason, Metalhead was very successful in the Icelandic 2014 Edda Awards, winning for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Original Score…
Just in time for Christmas, the latest tEaR!doWn and Sleepwalk albums were released concurrently by indie label Electro Aggression Records. The timed release of the two albums has a nice symmetry to it, because tEaR!doWn member Oliver Spring was formerly a member of Sleepwalk and contributes some to their new album. Likewise, Sleepwalk member Bruno…
Navigating the visa hurdles of your Baltic cruise vacation The crown jewel of any Baltic cruise itinerary is the port of call in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with most cruise lines offering 2 days (1 overnight) and some even offering 3 days (2 overnights). Saint Petersburg has an incredible amount to offer, from a rich and complicated history…
I first heard the German act Pyrroline from their 2013 Electro Aggression Records release ‘Ruins Outlast’. If I had to detail the sound of Pyrroline to someone who had never heard them before I would describe the band as “dark electro-lite” or “dark electro-pop”. The band has the trademarks of great dark electro, complex and uncompromising…
Akalotz started in 2007 but they are just now releasing their sophomore album Confront in late June 2017. The project is based in Kaiserslautern in southwest Germany. The sound of this album can be best be described as “retro EBM”. I’m not sure if that’s a recognized genre, but that’s really what the band…
‘The Silence Inside is the debut album from Ultra Arcanum, consisting of Mark Thirkell of London and Konstandinos Dorlis of Greece. The duo has been making together since late 2013, at which time Thirkell responded to an online ad from Dorlis requesting a vocalist. Dorlis was living in Birmingham at the time and Thirkell was in…
The name Amorphous may be unfamiliar, but Gil O. Santos’s work in the 1990’s under the Morgue moniker (sometimes Morgue Mechanism) casts a long shadow. Brazil at the time proved a fertile breeding ground for EBM acts including Aghast View and Simbolo, and of course Morgue, among others. And just as Aghast View successfully updated…
N3VOA is the work of Diego Bittencourt, an EBM/Synth-pop artist from New York City. After a childhood spent in São Paoul, Brazil, Diego moved to the United States at age 12. He became interested in music, initially drumming for death metal act Deathrune. But his interests over time veered toward electronic music, with influences…