From left: Ava Mitchell, Jenny McMillan, October Allen, Ayeda Masood, and Kiri Nakagawa. Photo by Carlos Salinas. Female-fronted rock band Daughters of Venus, based out of the University of Washington, is preparing for a summer of festival slots. On Sunday, they played their first of the season: the UW Bothell Block Party. The band consists of October Allen and Ava Mitchell on vocals and guitar, Kiri Nakagawa on bass and vocals, Jenny McMillan on drums, and Ayeda Masood on k

Rocky LeRoe, photo by Lara Blizzard. A desire and drive to build community among listeners isn’t unusual among artists, but it’s rare that their image and life experience align toward this desire as well as Rocky LeRoe’s do. She describes her music as “trying to keep the spirit of the 70s alive in a country city in an indie world” while performing “rock music with full band instruments”, suggesting inspiration from the groupie era of this time period. I first heard Rocky’s mu