Glitterfox is a Portland, OR-based indie folk band lead by married couple Solange Igoa and Andrea Walker with Eric Stalker and Blaine Heinonen on bass and drums. Since being named one of Portland's "Best New Bands" by the Willamette Week in 2022, coming away from Oregon Country Fair 2022 one of the most buzzed-about breakout acts, and being named winners of the High Sierra Music Festival Band Competition in 2023, Glitterfox has worked relentlessly to electrify their live show while honing in on the inimitable "west coast indie meets Southern Americana songwriting" style that defines Glitterfox song craft.

Website:

https://www.glitterfox.org

Youtube:

https://youtu.be/yi5XnYYs-GE

If you're crate-digging through the "Shoegazi alt country-adjacent indie psych-Spock" section at your local record shop, you'll find Salt Lick front and center. Malia Seavey, Teddy Keezer, Kevin Middleton, Ian McQuillen, and Dylan Hanwright make up the Seattle/Tacoma based band. Their first full length, The Gift of Missing, was released August of 2022 via Den Tapes.

"The Gift of Missing benefits greatly from the newfound solidification of the band's ranks, creating a band with a great deal of musical chemistry-abounds on sterling performances on "Cold Karma" and "Hothouse Flower" to match their excellent songwriting and Seavey's outsized charisma. The Keezer-written "Blue Car" is stately and melancholy, while "Laying" feels powerfully resolute. Seavey's sense of interiors in her songwriting (especially on songs like "Stray Into Wonder," "(Don't) Bring Me Down," and the album's title track) is a perfect match for her lights-out vocal performances and the band's propensity for lush, full, climactic arrangements." -Martin Douglas, KEXP