Featured Artist: Major Lazer

Featured Artist: Major Lazer

Major Lazer is a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in the secret Zombie War of 1984. The US military rescued him and repurposed experimental lazers as prosthetic limbs. Since then Major Lazer has been a hired renegade soldier for a rogue government operating in secrecy underneath the watch of M5 and the CIA. His [...]

Featured Artist: The Lumineers

Featured Artist: The Lumineers

“Wesley Schultz, 9, who wants to be an artist, said, ‘I spend a lot of time on my drawings and it turns out good ’cause I’ve been practicing a lot.’” -The New York Times, 3/15/92 Twenty years ago, Wesley Schultz saw the future. Back then, growing up in the New York City suburb of Ramsey, [...]

Partial Line Up Announced

Partial Line Up Announced

Seattle’s 16th-annual Capitol Hill Block Party (CHBP) will take place July 20th-22nd, 2012, with performances by Neko Case, Major Lazer, Fitz And The Tantrums, Phantogram, The Lumineers, Grimes, Aesop Rock w/ Rob Sonic & DJ Big Wiz, Youth Lagoon, Diplo, Thee Oh Sees, Cloud Nothings, Twin Shadow, Dam-Funk, Doomtree, Porcelain Raft, Spoek Mathambo, White Arrows, [...]

Featured Artist // Neko Case

Featured Artist // Neko Case

Neko Case set to headline the Mainstage! Many think Neko Case started out in music with the Canadian pop outfit the New Pornographers, but she was around a bit before. Neko joined the Vancouver, BC-based trio Cub as a touring drummer back in the mid-90s and later formed the band Maow with Tobey Black and [...]

Featured Business: Retrofit Home

Featured Business: Retrofit Home

Retrofit Home is located on 1103 East Pike in the heart of Capitol Hill.  They carry custom sofas, rugs, pillows, jewelry, books, and many other indescribably cool things. The first 10 people to spend $250 at Retrofit Home will receive a pair of 3 day passes to the Capitol Hill Block Party. Check out their [...]

Flyaway Contest

Flyaway Contest

Buy CHBP Tickets or enter your email below now through April 29th and you can be entered to win the Treasure Island Fly Away Package! Alaska Airlines, Treasure Island and CHBP want to send you to San Francisco! 2 flights on Alaska Airlines to San Francisco and back. Treasure Island Festival weekend passes.  Stay at a [...]