Three Songs To The Head vol. 47
Wednesday, July 26, 2017 11:57 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring Sounds Like Disco, Perfect Families and Fian. Enjoy! “Down” by the LA-band, Sounds Like Disco, is an energetic fluffy firefly of a track meant for the convertible speeding on a sun-lit open road. It’s a slushy when everything else is beating down on you. It’s a pop hit simply put. Seattle dream-pop band, Perfect Families, have a new record out August 16th and their first […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 46
Friday, March 24, 2017 14:20 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring Omar Tellez, Razor Clam and Killer Workout. Enjoy! You know those shots in movies where a person comes out of the shadows of an alleyway or something, hood on, you just see his mouth and the shadow of the world splashed over his face? That’s how Omar Tellez rhymes. Dude handles himself casual, almost unseen, and then he starts spitting and you see the truths […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 43
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 12:24 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring Annie Ford, Scarlet Parke and Deep Sea Diver. Annie Ford has a couple new songs she’s going to release Nov. 5th at the Sunset. They are called “Crocodile Skin” and “White Needles.” Annie Ford is one of our favorite songwriters – she’s a dynamo on the violin (she can sway a room liek a drunken pirate ship). While I would love to post her haunting […]
Seattle Superheroes: Mary Lambert
Monday, October 17, 2016 12:46 — 0 Comments
Mary Lambert is the lovely singer made famous for her chorus on the M&RL song, “Same Love.” She also helped The Monarch raise some $12,000 to benefit victims of the Oso Mudslide. She also has a badass tatoo that can come alive when she whispers her superpower magic words, “She keeps me warm.” Mary is funny, beautiful and generous and we’re glad to call her friend (and a former Monarch Drinks With feature). Art by Jill Denkmann.
Three Songs To The Head vol. 42
Friday, September 30, 2016 12:57 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring The Good Wives, Chris King and the Gutterballs and Khingz. The Good Wives’ song “Lonely Again” is like what I imagine a lullaby on Mars 3,000 years in the future sounds like. There is a considerate quality to the music, a repetition that conjures blankets and soothing, but the whole thing is also beat-driven, electric and mechanical. The song gets stuck in your head – particularly […]
Talking with Mississippi
Thursday, August 18, 2016 16:16 — 0 Comments
Mississippi Jones may not be the most well-known Seattle band in town, but the group may be one of the most surprising. Fronted by Mississippi Brenna, the flutter-voiced, electric-eyed lead singer, the band plays thoughtful, inclusive music aimed at a diverse audience. And the group has a few shows coming up – Aug. 25 at Vermillion and Aug. 27 at inartsnw. In light of this, we wanted to catch up with the band’s frontwoman to get some insight into her writing process. Jake Uitti: When you’re singing to an audience, what’s going through your mind? Mississippi Brenna: I try […]
Capitol Hill Block Party
Thursday, July 28, 2016 11:48 — 1 Comment
Capitol Hill Block Party was a Sunday out of the sun with (mostly) Seattle artists. My plan for the experience carried a few rules: 1) My Block Party exposure would be Sunday only 2) I decided to just check out local bands I hadn’t seen live before (which I mostly stuck to) and 3) I had to be home in time to put my son to bed, so I’d cede the sprawling CHVRCHES set to all the young dreamers. Set schedules conspired to keep me indoors, hustling up and down the stairs between the Neumos and Barboza stages, out of […]
One Super Important Question For Matt ‘Spek’ Watson
Monday, June 20, 2016 11:24 — 0 Comments
Matt ‘Spek’ Watson is a rapper, musician, producer, internet comedian and Facebook yeller. He’s also one of the most important voices in Seattle art and culture. He has a new record out this week, which he’ll be celebrating at Barboza in Capitol Hill on Thursday. We thought we’d catch up with Spek and ask him one super important question about music and the community in the Southend he calls home. JU: You’re just coming off what looks to be a super successful Station Block Party gig with tons of Southend artists celebrating Beacon Hill and the community there. What […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 41
Saturday, May 14, 2016 12:19 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring King Khazm, Goodbye Heart and Mississippi Jones. Enjoy! The productive bleakness that leaps out of the new video for “Dear Diary” from Seattle rapper King Khazm is heart-wrenching and fresh. In this video, the artist doesn’t pull punches, doesn’t hide from the onlooking audience. Instead, images of suicide, a black shroud and Khazm’s frail, bare body in the dirt stir us. He delivers his lyrics with ferocity. In […]
Chris King & The Gutterballs + Stereo Embers Vs. Saturday
Friday, March 18, 2016 12:12 — 0 Comments
Okay, okay, okay. You’ve probably read here that we love Chris King & The Gutterballs. Their slinky, smokey, roadhouse swang. Well, then, listen up to this, will ya? The band is playing the Blue Moon Saturday the 19th. One of our favorite bands in one of our favorite venues! You may also know The Monarch loves the powerful voice of Robb Benson and the wicked guitar stylings of Mr. Tim Dijulio. Well, their rock band, Stereo Embers, is playing an instore at East Street Records also on the 19th at 7pm. So, if you’re an agile music fan, check out […]
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