SEATTLE — For as many rock stars as Seattle has produced, it’s a little surprising that none currently anchor a music festival of their own on their home turf. At least not until now.

Indie rock titans Modest Mouse had floated on the idea for a while. The band even played two 2018 shows in Port Townsend, where late drummer Jeremiah Green lived, effectively serving as a test run for Seattle Theatre Group’s THING festival, which relocated to Carnation’s Remlinger Farms last year.

Seven years after those twin Port Townsend gigs, the band, led by Isaac Brock, and STG have reconnected to launch the Psychic Salamander Festival at Remlinger Farms, roughly 20 minutes from where the frontman — and former Seattle Times paperboy — grew up in Issaquah. The two-day fest takes over the family-friendly

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