Victoria Holt – SMI (Seattle Music Insider)

Originally from San Francisco, CA, Victoria completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography at Seattle University. Her passion is making live music look as great as it sounds. Her work has been featured in The Stranger, The Seattle Weekly, The Capitol Hill Times, and online with KEXP, Live Music Blog, and Back Beat Seattle. Her 2012 BFA thesis, “Seattle DIY: Live Music,” has exhibited at various venues in the Seattle area, and offers an in-depth exploration of six “Do-It-Yourself” underground spaces. For a behind the scenes look at music, she shoots in-studio performances at local radio station KEXP.

Wimps Celebrate Release of “Suitcase” at the Funhouse
By Victoria Holt on November 17, 2015
“We’ve never done this before!” Wimps singer and guitarist Rachel Ratner exclaimed Friday night, as the cheeky band donned their instruments at the release party...
Mac DeMarco Older, Wiser, and Wilder at the Moore Theater
By Victoria Holt on November 5, 2015
As Mac DeMarco and his bandmates wrapped up their first song at the Moore Theater Thursday night, bassist Pierce McGarry looked out at the crowd. The...
Shared Humanity at Dan Deacon’s Neumos Show
By Victoria Holt on May 11, 2015
An intense blast of light and sound emanated from a multi-colored Neumos stage, as Dan Deacon stood at his podium of MPCs, mixers, and pedals....
Mac DeMarco Thrills his Teenage Fanclub at the Neptune Theater
By Victoria Holt on April 26, 2015
A girl who looked to be about sixteen, with a grown out dye-job, stick-n-poke tattoos, and a septum piercing, lit a cigarette and blew a...
An Intimate Evening with Helio Sequence at The Triple Door, 3-31-15
By Victoria Holt on April 3, 2015
Helio Sequence played a sold out show at The Triple Door on March 31, 2015. For those who expected their usual high energy performances, singer/guitarist Brandon...
Psychedelic Country from of Montreal at Neumos
By Victoria Holt on March 30, 2015
As the lights slowly brightened on the scene, the Of Montreal (stylized “of Montreal”) members, minus bandleader Kevin Barnes, came out and started up a...
Dr. Dog Transforms the Showbox Market into a “Flamingo Hotel”
By Victoria Holt on February 13, 2015
Dr. Dog had the Showbox Market popping off like a tropical hotel party in an ode to their recent release, Live at a Flamingo Hotel. After...
Mac DeMarco Surfs Crowd Adoration at Chop Suey
By Victoria Holt on November 21, 2014
After opening for Julian Casablancas mere hours before, Mac DeMarco brought his rowdy live show to Chop Suey last Thursday, November 13th for a late night...
The Kills Get Salty and Sweet at The Neptune
By Victoria Holt on November 2, 2014
The Kills rocked The Neptune Monday night with their primal, unbridled energy. Alison Mosshart’s sweaty, almost dreaded hair went handsomely awry as she whipped around,...
A ‘Completely Crazy’ Night with Yelle at Neumos (Photos)
By Victoria Holt on October 28, 2014
Neumos was bouncing off the walls Friday night to the sweet sounds of French synth-pop band Yelle. Fronted by talented and beautiful vocalist Julie Budet,...
YACHT and White Fang: Two Very Different Kinds of Crowd Interaction
By Victoria Holt on October 11, 2014
“If you don’t want to be touched, physically and spiritually, you should move to the back,” singer Claire L. Evans of YACHT warned the crowd...
Blake Mills’ Expert Guitar Work at the Columbia City Theater
By Victoria Holt on September 26, 2014
You may not have heard of Blake Mills, but his fellow musicians have. For years he’s been honing his craft, making connections, even catching the...