Video: Alaska Airlines supports Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ Residency program

Update November 29, 2017: Alaska Airlines surprised all of the participants from The Residency program with a trip to Phoenix to see Macklemore perform live. See highlights from their trip below: Original story: The W Seattle Sound Suite is a hip-hop artist’s dream – chic leather couches, professional sound-recording equipment, posh decorations, and floor-to-ceiling…

Seattle music scene: Macklemore’s local roots

By Albert Rodriguez for Alaska Beyond Magazine On a cold, drizzly February evening outside Neumos, a small concert venue in Seattle’s buzzing Capitol Hill neighborhood, 500 fans stood in line for hours to see Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. It was a tiny crowd in comparison to the nearly 50,000 who attended the three sold-out concerts…