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The University of Washington Board of Regents sent around the following email this morning announcing Michael K. Young as the new President of the University of Washington Dear Members of the University of Washington Community: I am delighted to inform you that at a special meeting today, the University of Washington Board of Regents selected …
Seattle alt-country band The Head and the Heart will appear Thursday, 2/21/2011, on Conan O’Brien’s TBS show.
Here’s the latest from Davin, “Check out and please share our first single WARPATH. This is one of the songs we’ll be sending out soon to folks that bought advanced copies of Jungle Cat. Bump it right here Jukebox style! (this site rocks).” Warpath – single by The Staxx Brothers . And here’s the video. …
Here’s the latest from Left Hand Smoke: NEXT SEATTLE SHOW Thanks to all who came to the Triple Door and made it a sold-out affair. Many people asked about the next Seattle show. LHS will be at the Hard Rock Cafe, a new venue in town, in a couple of weeks. Spread the word! Hard …
…I recall writing at the time that I knew she wasn’t from around here (Seattle). How? She pronounces Peter Bagge’s last name “baggy.” A decent presentation all the same. Is more Pop Conference stuff available? If so, where where where? Best, – Andrew Hamlin Seattle Channel Video can be played in Flash Player 9 and …
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 …