Set in the thriving contemporary music scene of Seattle, this musical series invites viewers to tag along with the hottest up-and-coming bands for a wild weekend as they work, sweat, perform, and party in Seattle’s clubs, bars, after hours speak easies and crash pads.

Both a long-form rock musical and 12-part series, $5 Cover Seattle captures the color, flavor and texture of Seattle's real nightlife — as well as the hairy-tongued mornings after. With all the musicians playing themselves in stories drawn from their actual lives, the show emphasizes the authentic intimacy of a living, breathing musical community, as well as a sweet, deadpan sense of humor.

Season 2, Seattle is directed by Lynn Shelton, the award-winning filmmaker, who's a longtime fixture of the Northwest-Pacific film and music scene and the director of the 2009 indie comedy, "Humpday" which premiered to critical acclaim at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "The idea is that it’s a way to experience a particular city through the city’s music that’s happening now. That’s what’s so cool about it," she recently said.

Focusing on an eclectic group of musicians, $5 Cover centers on 13 bands in the second season. The disparate group of musicians includes the electro-rapping duo THEESatisfaction, the punk band Whiskey Tango, discordant indie rock trio The Lights, the boogie rock and woodsy psychedelia of The Moondoggies, ambient experimental instrumental combo Corespondents, the outré electronic hip-hop group Champagne, Champagne, singer-songwriter Sean Nelson, formerly of the Seattle groups Harvey Danger and The Long Winters, the frantic pop duo of the Tea Cozies and many, many more. Seattle might have been known for grunge in the '90s, but the scene has exploded with several different musical flavors, all of which are covered in the Seattle edition.

Jimi Hendrix, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Death Cab For Cutie, the list goes on and on an on. Seattle has a long, rich and storied musical history — from the guitar god himself to the '90s grunge explosion and the indie scene that followed — but you've never glimpsed into Seattle so intimately until now. Not only does $5 Cover track the musicians struggling to make their way in the shadows of giants, it also chronicles the city itself and the touchstones that have made the metropolis a musical hotbed with the $5 Cover B-Sides documentaries that focus on places and folks like Spoonman (the guy behind the famous Soundgarden song), KEXP (the local and beloved radio station) the awesome forgotten '60s R&B/Funk label (Wheedle’s Groove) and more. For more on Seattle, the music scenes and the bands interwined in Seattle's hotbed of a music scene, check out the $5 Cover Blog.

Directed by Craig Brewer (the director of the Memphis hip-hop film, "Hustle & Flow") $5 Cover: Memphis — watch the entire first season here — was a rough-and-tumble free-for-all, set in the clubs, all-nite cafes and no-tell motels of Memphis. The series followed a young cast of musicians as they fought for love, inspiration, and money to pay the rent including groups like soulful blues-country singer Amy LaVere, the piano-driven rockers Two Way Radio, alt-country band Lucero and the colorful, oddball rapper, Muck Sticky, hip-hop MC Al Kapone and many, many more.

All of the characters played themselves and performed their own music. Each episode built up to an exciting performance or recording session captured live on location. The dialogue was all improvised and the scenes came straight from the lives of artists and bands struggling to make a mark on their scene.