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The Tentacle is a non-profit, volunteer-produced community service providing information on non-mainstream creative music in the Pacific Northwest. Our purview includes exploratory jazz, free improvisation, new composition, electronic music, sonic exploration, multimedia performance, noise, and avant rock. The Tentacle features a comprehensive Calendar of Northwest new-music performances, adventurous Radio listings, new Release announcements, News, Articles on innovative music and related topics, listings of NW new-music Sources and Links to NW creative musicians and organizations, and information on where to find the Tentacle Ink edition in our region. You can also Subscribe to our FREE weekly e-mail newsletter.
Musicians / presenters / radio programmers / labels: The Tentacle welcomes submissions of performance dates, radio shows, and recording release announcements / Northwest events / artists / labels / stations only, please. New to the Tentacle? Review our Submission Guidelines and Deadline information. Experienced navigators: Go directly to our Submit page so that we can list your performances. If you are not able to get the submit page to work, you can also email your listings to tentacle@tentacle.org.