Crystal Desert Archives - SMI (Seattle Music Insider)

A traitor’s view of Bad Optics
By Christine Mitchell on August 5, 2018
Right at the tail end of March at The Fisherman’s Village Music Festival in Everett, Bad Optics seemingly magically popped into existence. The band wasn’t...
The Ramones’ hairy resurrection
By Christine Mitchell on October 31, 2017
There is a chill in the air, a damp that penetrates to the bone. It’s the tail end of October, and you know what that...
Crystal Desert’s Evening of Darkness
By Christine Mitchell on June 8, 2017
It’s a little bit gut-wrenching that the defining moment of Crystal Desert’s career, their apex, was this: they stripped off their black clothing, revealing ramients...
The truncation of Crystal Desert
By Christine Mitchell on June 5, 2017
What makes a legend? If a tree fell in the forest and there were a hundred people to witness it, would you believe them if they...
Downstream: Goofus, Gallant, and Genius
By Christine Mitchell on May 22, 2017
Substation’s Downstream Music Fest + Festival, created and curated in direct response to Paul Allen’s Upstream Music Festival + Summit, celebrated the antithesis of its inspiration:...
Fisherman’s Village 2017 Proves That Everett’s Got It Going On
By Abby Williamson on May 2, 2017
As someone who calls herself a festival veteran, I’m ashamed to say that 2017 was the first year I got to experience Everett’s Fisherman’s Village Music...
BEST SEATTLE ALBUMS OF 2016: ABBY & CHRISTINE’S PICKS
By Abby Williamson on December 30, 2016
We keep hearing about how 2016 has been a massive dumpster fire, and in many ways us SMI folks do not disagree. But if there’s...
Fauna Shade powers Stereo Wire party
By Christine Mitchell on September 29, 2016
Fauna Shade headlined a show last Saturday night that sold out The Anchor Pub in Everett for the first time since reopening two years ago....
Actionesse gets bombastic at EP release show
By Christine Mitchell on September 29, 2016
Actionesse took to the stage on a Friday night at The Highline to celebrate the release of their EP Mignon (our review is here), and...
Crystal Desert sears and burns
By Christine Mitchell on September 7, 2016
The night was stuffy. Fans blew across the room, but they didn’t seem to help. Sound equipment, lights, and human bodies emitted heat. An untold...
Crystal Desert Announces BLACK SUMMER Single Series
By Christine Mitchell on July 16, 2016
Crystal Desert is fixing to cast its web of tightly-wound, screaming with face jammed into a corner, sublimely dark punk rock over the entire earth....
Review: ‘Four Corners;’ Bands Hit High Dive Saturday
By Christine Mitchell on June 20, 2016
Four local PNW bands trade tracks on the split LP Four Corners, a self-released project featuring Asterhouse, Actionesse, Crystal Desert, and The Pro-Nouns. The bands...