And the Reverb Festival Class of 2011 Is . . .

• ok, no semantics. thing is: this is a festival that includes a broad range of local acts, i do my best to make that happen. I have booked shows for a long time, so i am pretty used to getting lots of criticism, and not everybody being super stoked about everything i do, thats cool. There is definitely no concerted effort on my part to leave out or under-represent any genre of music, electronic included. I am sure there are plenty of folks who  would like to see more Jazz, Metal, Electronic, Rock, etc. and they are probably justified in their criticism... I do, however, think there is something for everybody in this line-up and it is more than worth a $10 wristband. I am personally in to all kinds of different music, which makes this very fun to put together every year...Ok, Dr. Huxtable, peace out

• I respect the daunting task you have booking an enormous grouping of shows that takes place on a weekend, but I'm still really put off by the willful blindness of Reverb, CHBP, Sasquatch, etc. to exclude local electronic music like they aren't a viable part of Seattle's musical community.  I, honestly, don't get the reasoning behind this.  Is the music deemed to difficult for audiences to understand?  If so, I think these festivals are selling their audiences short. I really don't want to get into semantics about what is and is not electronic music, but in my opinion, hip-hop and R&B acts are not electronic music acts simply because they use electronic equipment (though I'd love to see more, diverse hip-hop and R&B acts being booked for this and other festivals).  I could understand if I was salty about a niche genre, like throat singing, going unnoticed - but if throat singers were playing to thousands of kids on a weekly basis and throat singers were releasing throat singing records on multiple national and international labels, one would assume that local promoters would take note.

• Shout out to all my A Capella music acts from Seattle not represented by Decibel. That is to say, all of them.

• Cosby is just grouchy because it's been all of 5 minutes since his publicist at the Stranger has promoted his music.

• i love seattle for having such an amazingly diverse music scene and i heart kwab for booking such a killer lineup of local acts each year.  if you're not finding something you like, you're kinda not looking very hard...

• Kwab: Thanks for doing such a killer job every year!

• Noddy, Metal Chocolates, SidePony, Shaprece, Mash Hall, Dont Talk To The Cops, Gynch, Katie Kate among others all are electronic in one way or another...but if thats not enough, go to Decibal Electronic Music Festival on september 28th. I try to make the lineup as diverse as possible every year, but of course,  i cant please everyone. I am excited about ALL of these artists. Bound to be something good out of 65 acts. Hope you can make it Mr Cosby! Kwab Copeland,  REVERB booker

• Shout out to all the electronic music acts from Seattle not represented by Reverb.  That is to say, all of them.

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