Photo by Dan Muller of Trickshot Photography

Abbey Simmons

Co-Founder, Managing Editor, Writer, Photographer 

I was born to rock’n'roll. (Or at least to write a music blog.)

No really.

My parents named me after a Beatles’ album and famous recording studio. As a toddler, I loved to bang away on my highchair when AC/DC was on. At the age of 10 (upon witnessing the parking lot) I told my Dad “I want to be a Deadhead when I grow up.” I have dreamed of running away with the band for as long as I can remember. I’m at concerts more nights than not.

I am a Seattle Native and a fan of just about everything related to my hometown. Above all, I love the music that’s being made here, the people who are making it,  and the community that surrounds it. With bands and artists like The Moondoggies, The Maldives, The Head and The Heart, Damien Jurado, David Bazan, The Whore Moans, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, Thee Emergency,  J. Tillman,  A Gun That Shoots Knives, The Cave Singers, Shabazz Palaces, Wild Orchid Children,  The Ironclads, The Curious Mystery, Fleet Foxes (and countless others) calling Seattle home, we’re blessed to be a part of one of the most vibrant music scenes in the country. And I wouldn’t trade my Seattle experience or bands with any other city in the country.

Writing this blog is living part of the big dream, and I couldn’t be more thrilled about it.

You can get in touch with me at:

Email: abbey@soundonthesound.com

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/musicandmoxie

Myspace: http://myspace.com/soundonthesound

Being wowed and sweated on profusely, by Ami of Monotnix

(Photo by the talented Alex Crick)

And here I am  about exploding with joy, with one of my earliest Sound on the Sound discoveries Elvis Perkins in 2006: