Graig Markel and Zera Marvel– the first couple of Seattle power music are making three songs from their latest project, Dead Ship Sailing, available for free download:
Seattle, a city where white supremacists rumble in sun-dappled parks overlooking Puget Sound and the best urban skyline on the west coast:
Here’s another reminder that St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. In Chicago, for instance, St. Paddy’s Day is a big deal. Windy City offices close for two days due to low productivity on the green day itself and the hangover time wastage which inevitably follows the next day. I never thought I’d miss …
It’s no secret that I used to consider "John in the Morning" [aka John Richards], KEXP’s vastly overpaid, morning drive time "Star" DJ, an absolute dweeb. Possibly a nice enough guy, but still…. However, after old pal o’ Husker Du Kevin Cole came over from Minneapolis to re-program the station a few years back, it …
Another reminder that St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. St. Paddy’s day in Chicago is a huge deal. Offices may as well close for two days due to low productivity on the day itself and the hangover time wastage which inevitably follows the next day. I never thought I’d miss those wild March …
“Weren’t Young Fresh Fellows more important in the grand scheme of things than Nirvana? And wasn’t Popllama more significant than SubPop? – East Portland Blog Critic’s Roundtable, Part 1 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Through the 1980s a couple of different strains ran through …
Note to criminals in Seattle: dress up in a green and gold suit before going on a crime spree, then everyone will think Phoenix Jones did it. Phoenix himself had to have been affected by popular culture because what rational adult would suit up and play Batman unless every movie had superheroes in them. Then …
This is beautiful. I couldn’t agree with John Roderick more. And there are two unspoken, ignored elephant in the room, reasons that year-end, best albums top ten lists are passe: 1. Downloads are eclipsing hard copy sales and the popular perception of the album as an indivisible artistic unit is therefore evaporating. Why djinn up …
Neko Case has created a lot of compelling music in the last decade, both as an alt-country chanteuse and as a New Pornographer. However, my sentimental favorite is 2000’s Furnace Room Lullaby, the album that propelled her out of the Pacific Northwest and into international stardom. Furnace Room Lullaby firmly established a sort of trademarked …
. Seattle’s classic, fantastic, “hard ass soul” band, Staxx Brothers and East Portland Blog are very pleased to announce the release of “Corn Rows for Christmas,” a powerful, fresh, new, original, soaring, heartfelt Christmas song which is presented here as a gift for Staxx Brothers fans, Christmas fans, music fans, everyone… View the very fun …
Prior to and contemporaneous with, Grunge, Seattle was a center for great melodic pop from such luminaries as the Posies, the Young Fresh Fellows, (whose leader Scott McCaughey went on to play in REM for years) Sister Psychic, Flake, Stumpy Joe, Model Rockets, Presidents of the United States of America and numerous others. Out of …
Within the last year or so, multimedia artist, Barbara Trentalange, had a baby. Balancing motherhood with creative expression, she completed a series of paintings titled, “Baby Napping Series.” “I started the series because I needed to be quiet around the house while my daughter napped,” says Trentalange. “Since I couldn’t write and play music (which …
. As we enter this holiday season, once again, with so many people unemployed, this year, I am making a committment to buy more local and American made products for gift giving. Some of my favorites are Applets and Cotlets Candy (Wenatchee, WA) Filson Clothing (Seattle) and MagLite flashlights (SoCal). What are your favorites? – …
. I was a Senior in high school and I was picking up the bulk for the Dutchess County News Tribune. It was a frozen, clear dawn with no birds in the trees or sky, quiet and moon bright. I fired up the Ford, scraped off the morning ice and dropped by Margaret Hamilton’s office …
Seattle trumpeter Thomas Marriott’s upcoming release on Origin records, Constraints & Liberations, is now available for preorder from Amazon (http://tinyurl.com/22rh3lh), and will be available in stores Nov. 16, 2010. The video above is the electronic press kit for Both Sides of the Fence, Marriott’s 2007 release (http://tinyurl.com/2aozvt7). The vid gives you a feel for Marriott …
Midday Veil released their first studio album recently, “Eyes All Around.” The first video, “Asymptote II” is lovely, joyous, innocent and drug-fueled. Expect great things from this young Seattle combo: . . Here is the press release. Read and learn, Philistines: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Translinguistic Other Recordings p.o. box 23326 Seattle WA 98102 MIDDAY VEIL …
Paul Dorpat, of Seattle Now & Then fame, and Jean Sherrard, an old friend of mine, and a French woman named Berangere Lomont, have put together this fine blog called Dorpat Sherrard Lomont, which is found at http://pauldorpat.com and is not always, despite what the advertising scan below might suggest, about lingerie/corsets/curvaceousness… .
Vandals deface Mormons’ new meeting house in West Linn “From the nature of the graffiti, I’d have to say it wasn’t a terribly well thought-out attack on the church. You’d think if they really had something against Mormons, they’d at least know how to spell it” -Sgt. Neil Hennelly on anti “Morman” graffiti sprayed on …
From an album called “Learning” by Seattle singer/songwriter Mike Hedreas, aka Perfume Genius. From the limited information found online about Hedreas, it appears he wrote the album — hence the title — to come to terms with difficult issues from his past. There are times when listening to a record you can tell the artist …
From: Kipp, Thomas J Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 10:02 AM To: Everyone Subject: FW: Bottomless Pit–Blood Under the Bridge 2×12″+CD preorder Welcome news from the ex-Silkworm boize in Chicago! Tom ________________________________________ From: Bottomless Pit Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 8:04 AM To: Bottomless Pit Subject: Bottomless Pit–Blood Under the Bridge 2×12″+CD preorder If you …
Hard to believe I was almost 30 before I finally listened to Pet Sounds. SUMMERTIME, 1981 In preparation for my first cross-country road trip from the Midwest, to Seattle – where I’ve now made my home since 1985 – I was recording mix tapes to play in the car. I’d already filled several tapes with …
Justin Renney brings you an excellent My Bloody Valentine live clip: Back in 1996 when a friend of mine introduced me to My Bloody Valentine I wasn’t that impressed. That same friend wound up gifting me a copy of Loveless a couple years later and by 1998 I was checking fansites like expectdelay trying to …
My old friend and one of Pandomag.com‘s stellar photographers, Justin Renney, was involved in putting this amazing project together. He was Director of Photography, Music Director, filmed every scene, and is listed as an Associate Producer on the page called “The Team.” It’s an interactive movie, out now on DVD and available for a limited …
Parini, the great 90s Seattle band which featured Lisa Orth– a longtime Seattle artist and musician, founder of 66 Saints and designer of cover artwork for “Bleach,” the first Nirvana album–on guitar and Dan Paulus on drums, passed into history a long time ago, but Rob Hursh has found, digitized and resurrected this fantastic clip:
From: J Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:04 AM To: Kipp, Thomas J Subject: RE: Brand new praise for TK’s 1982-83 stint w/ Diction, from a thoroughly unexpected source! So what exactly makes something grunge and how was the DD song the beginning of it? I know that back in the day (when I walked …
Behold a classic photo of Seattle children’s television star and Nordic-American humor pioneer Stan Boreson with his redoubtable basset hound, No Mo, and two enchanted children, at the opening of Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo. To bask in the timeless glow of this 1967 photo, click here. * * * * * Here’s a recent photo …