For the longest time, there was a mix of the most famous Seattle area musical acts playing on loop at the International Fountain at teh Seattle Center.

Now, Seattle takes it a step further with their program called OnHold where they offer local artist’s as the hold music for those waiting to get a hold of a human when calling city offices.

The best part is that they offer a podcast of the OnHold mixes.

The City of Seattle now offers podcasts of the entire music program available OnHold. You can subscribe to receive updates (learn how below) each time a new OnHold mix is podcast and access previous podcasts from the archive.

OnHold is the first municipally hosted podcast dedicated to showcasing local musicians and giving back to the community. Each time a new OnHold podcast is released previous podcasts will be archived to create a one of a kind Seattle music database.

It’s the small things like this that make me glad to live in a progressive city.