Reverb is just our kind of music festival. Its purely local, its mostly about the little guys and with over 70 bands for just $15 ($10 for under 21′ers), it is the cheapest festival in town that isn’t free. Sure, there’s no international headliners, but the point of Reverb is to show we’ve got the goods right here. With bands playing nearly every crevice of Ballard Avenue, Seattle doesn’t need to fly anyone in for an awesome and diverse music festival to happen and you don’t need to spend $75 to enjoy one.

Reverb is this Saturday and we’ll be seeing some of our favorites from the past year and checking out bands we’ve loved recorded, live for the first time. Here’s what we’re hoping to catch and by majority vote, Sound on the Sound’s unmissable sets of the Fest.

Gold Leaves ::: photo by Josh Lovseth

Abbey’s Reverb Schedule:

2:00-2:45 Kaylee Cole (Salmon Bay Upstairs) 2:30-3:15 Dyme Def (NY Fashion Academy) 4:00-4:45 Metal Chocolates (The Sunset) or Golden Blondes (Tracor Tavern) 4:30-5:15 Dude York (NY Fashion Academy) 5:00-5:45 Summer Babes (2 Bit Saloon) or Pony Time (5:30 to 6:15 at NY Fashion Academy) 6:00-6:45 Spurm (The Sunset) 7:00-7:45 Land of Pines (Salmon Bay Upstairs) or NightTrain (2 Bit) 8:30-9:15 Fly Moon Royalty (NY Fashion Academy) 9:00-9:45 Kelli Schaefer (Tracor Tavern) or Virgin Islands (Salmon Bay Upstairs) 9:30-10:15 Witch Gardens (NY Fashion Academy) or Sons of Warren Oates (Conor Byrne) 10:30-11:15 Pipsisewah (Conor Byrne) 11:00-11:45 Gold Leaves (Tractor Tavern) or Mash Hall (The Sunset) 12:00-12:45 depends on my mood, would be happy to end the night with any of the headliners - Grynch (The Sunset) / Grand Hallway (Tractor tavern) / Sandrider (2 Bit Saloon) / Cobirds Unite (Conor Byrne)

Abbey’s absolutely unmissable sets: Dude York (NY Fashion Academy at 4:30) and Gold Leaves (Tractor Tavern at 10:30)

Josh’s Reverb Schedule:

This weekend I’m favoring bands that I haven’t seen at all.

2:00 Kaylee Cole (Salmon Bay Upstairs) 2:30 Dyme Def (NY Fashion Academy) 3:00 Shaprece (The Sunset) 3:30 Neighbors (NY Fashion Academy) 4:00 Stephanie (Salmon Bay Upstairs) 4:30 Dude York (NY Fashion Academy) 5 Charles Leo Gebhardt IV (The Sunset) or Summer Babes (2 Bit Saloon) 5:30 Pony Time (NY Fashion Academy) 6:00 Cataldo (Salmon Bay Upstairs) 7:00 Land Of Pines (Salmon Bay Upstairs) 7:30 Mark Pickerel (Conor Byrne) 8:30 Fly Moon Royalty (NY Fashion Academy) 9:30 Witch Gardens (NY Fashion Academy) 10:00 Tomten (Salmon Bay Upstairs) 11:00 Gold Leaves (Tractor Tavern) 12:00 Sandrider (2 Bit Saloon)

Fly Moon Royalty

Kathleen’s Reverb Schedule:

2:00-2:45- Kaylee Cole (Salmon Bay Upstairs) 3:00-3:45- Red Jacket Mine 4:00-4:45- Golden Blondes (Tracor Tavern) 6:00-6:45- Cataldo (Salmon Bay Upstairs) 7:00-7:45- Land of Pines (Salmon Bay Upstairs) 8:00-8:45- Atomic Bride 8:30-9:15- Fly Moon Royalty (NY Fashion Academy) 9:00-9:45- Kelli Schaefer (Tracor Tavern) 9:30-10:15- Witch Gardens 11:00-11:45- Gold Leaves (Tracor Tavern) 12:00-12:45- Grand Hallway (Tracor Tavern)

Kelli Schaefer ::: photo by Josh Lovseth

Phil’s hypothetical Reverb Schedule:

Ah, Reverb Festival presented to you by Seattle Weekly. In years’ past there have been excellent lineups chosen for your enjoyment and this year is no exception. Sadly, I’ve never made it to Reverb Festival. I always have other things going on (such as drinking pitchers of margaritas on the River Walk in San Antonio or watching an efficient use of metal detectors on Beale Street in Memphis). This year is no exception as I’ll be shooting guns and flirting with bridesmaids watching friends’ get married in New Mexico this weekend. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy an entire weekend’s worth of music crammed into one day for the cheap price of $15. (Psssssst. Insider information: If you’re on the Seattle Weekly mailing list, you can get tickets for $7.)  Who knows, maybe you’ll catalog Saturday’s events and write a guest blog post about it (let’s not get carried away). This is what I would see if I were to stick around this weekend:

2:30pm Kaylee Cole at Salmon Bay Eagles (upstairs — all ages) 3:30pm Neighbors at the New York Fashion Academy (all ages) 4:00pm Metal Chocolates at the Sunset (21+) 5:00pmSummer Babes at the 2-Bit Saloon (21+) 6:00pm Spurm at the Sunset (21+) 7:00pm Don’t Talk to the Cops at the Tractor Tavern (21+) 8:30pm Fly Moon Royalty at the New York Fashion Academy (all ages) 9:00pm Kelli Schaefer at the Tractor Tarvern (21+) 10:00pm Curtains For You at the Tractor Tavern (21+) 11:00pm Mash Hall at the Sunset (21+) Midnight Sandrider at the 2-Bit Saloon (21+)

Land of Pines ::: photo by Josh Lovseth

Based on 3 out of 4 writers recommending them, Sound on the Sound’s absolutely unmissable sets of Reverb are:

Kaylee Cole (2:30 at Salmon Bay Upstairs), Land of Pines (7:00pm at Salmon Bay Upstairs), Fly Moon Royalty (8:30pm at NY Fashion Academy), Kelli Schaefer (9:00pm at The Tractor), Witch Gardens (9:30 at NY Fashion Academy), Gold Leaves (11:00pm at The Tractor) and Sandrider (Midnight at the 2 Bit Saloon)