Ever Out Seattle (2024)

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How to find live music in Seattle? ›

Seattle is the largest city in the U.S. state of Washington and has long played a major role in the state's musical culture, popularizing genres of alternative rock such as grunge and being the origin of major bands like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney, Foo Fighters, and, most notably ...

As the birthplace of legendary rocker Jimi Hendrix and the entire genre of grunge, Seattle is steeped in musical heritage. But its contemporary live music scene is as vibrant as ever.

Seattle is famous for its live music scene.

White settlers came to the Seattle area in 1851, establishing a townsite they first called New York, and then, adding a word from the Chinook jargon meaning "by-and-by," New York-Alki.

About Puget Sound

Puget Sound is a large inland estuary connected to the Pacific Ocean. It is about 95 miles long and 1 to 5 miles wide with it's northern boundary at Admiralty Inlet and ending in the south at the city of Olympia. The shoreline is 1330 miles long, of that some 30% is armored with bulkheads.

Seattle is famous for Starbucks and overall coffee culture, grunge music scene, the Seahawks, the Space Needle, Pike Place Market, headquarters of a lot of the tech industry (including both Amazon and Microsoft), hiking, kayaking, and general outdoors lifestyle (think REI).

But back on April 18, 2008, it actually snowed! Photographer Jean Sherrard documented the rare April snow.

Where not to walk in downtown Seattle? ›

And, does it matter whether the vehicle is parked in a residential, business or industrial zone? A: There is no specific law or ordinance in Seattle that prohibits sleeping in a vehicle, says Mike Estey, the Seattle Transportation Department's parking-operations and traffic-permits manager. But there are parking laws.