LAKE is a group of cloudy individuals brought together through lines drawn along Interstate-5, intersecting in Olympia around 2005. Since forming, they have gained and lost members, recorded an album a year, and toured extensively. The sounds they craft are straight from the playbook of the good parts of '70s pop and Turkish psychedelic music. Caressing the wurlitzer keyboard, endearing drum fills, guitars that don't sound like guitars, and slamming bass lines: listening to LAKE is like pouring sugar in your ears. They'll turn your brain into chocolate, 67% cacao.

For the past decade Half Shadow, the midnight-blue songwriting moniker of Portland’s Jesse Carsten, has been unfurling an enigmatic, windswept music: equal parts earthen folk and cosmic rock and roll, with a primal pop experimentalism seeping from the edges. Wedding an expansive, transcendent poetics to a fiercely home-spun aesthetic, Carsten creates joyful, eclectic song-collages that embrace the experimental singer-songwriter tradition of the Pacific Northwest; songs range from abstract finger-picked poems to heart-tugged acapella treaties and cosmic-rock incantations.
With a healthy stack of records, EPs, and countless cassette releases to the project’s credit, Half Shadow still feels fresh and mercurial—this is music made in celebration of life, loss, dreams, poetry, and the pervasive mystery that surrounds us. As one critic has commented, the project "has the rare distinction of sounding very little like anything else."

Half Shadow’s performances—alternatively solo or full-banded—are recognized as rare, evocative, immersive events, and have inspired a passionate, if humble, following in the Northwest. The Portland Mercury has praised Carsten’s shows as “invariably powerful, and full of wonder." Half Shadow has shared the stage with a variety of indie rock’s tenderest luminaries, including Porches, Frankie Cosmos, Karl Blau, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Mega Bog, Stephen Steinbrink, and Juan Wauters, among others.

Having been called “one of Portland’s best kept secrets,” it is paradoxically Half Shadow’s mystery-inspired, DIY ethos that spirits Carsten’s ever-evolving project out of the home-recordist’s cave and onto more illuminated stages. When it does, Half Shadow is ready to wrap listeners in the dark, sparkling hues and mossy undergrowth that have become the poetic trademark of this singular undertaking.

Bad Posture Club is a queer folk duo made up of Maren Day and Morgan Kavanagh. Originally from Northwestern Washington, they've toured nationally, as well as spent formative years in the Midwest music scene. Together they craft intricate and experimental harmonies with their two voices, banjo, guitar, and a 100 year old pump organ. Bad Posture Club invites the listener to hear the power in quiet, intimate music, and offers warmth and reflection through song.