. 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 …
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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 …
7/01/2010 – from the great Tom Kipp: I always suspected ol’ Bob would bow out in the anniversary month of CG. [July 1969 seems longer ago than EVER right now.] And, after the conversation we had about Consumer Guide in 2006, driving back to his hotel from Greil and Jenny Marcus’ dinner party at the …
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 …
My UW friend Lou Trez and his band, Quickie, released this song on April 11, 2010 and since then it’s been viewed 120,000 times. Now the video is drawing attention in China, where it is discussed in this Chinese language news report. Only in America, only in Seattle…
The latest from Seattle‘s Unnatural Helpers is a video expressive of club rock’s gut level punch and fevered intensity, featuring anger, barbecue and vomiting (in a good way). To go straight to the vomiting, click here:
A few things. Grynch‘s new tune is lovely, hook-laden and sweetly touching. Song is about a car and not remotely obscene, but uses connection word obscenities to denote generational authenticity. Be warned, if suchlike bothers you. AND, for those of you who don’t live in Seattle, this video shows exactly what Seattle looks and feels …