2015 — The Monarch Review — Page 9
Monarch Podcast #15 – Reginald Andre Jackson
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 11:56 — 0 Comments
Actor and playwright, Reginald Andre Jackson, stops by Monarch studios to talk Shakespeare, working with inmates at prisons, and his new play about Buddy Bolden that he’s working on with members of Industrial Revelation.
Three Songs To The Head vol. 31 (by Robb Benson)
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 11:20 — 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 Courtney Barnett, Built To spill and Abraham.. and today’s post is written by Seattle songwriter Robb Benson. Enjoy! How can I describe how I feel about Courtney Barnett’s music without getting myself in trouble with my wife? Okay… it’s too late, my wife knows. My crush is innocent though, I swear, and there are probably thousands of guys and gals feeling the same way every […]
The President’s Hairdo – Beau Golwitzer
Monday, May 18, 2015 11:09 — 0 Comments
The President came out with a new hairdo. Previously, the President had sported, not by choice, a simple white ribbon of hair wrapped from the left side to the right side of his head. But now the President’s new hairdo was a big, 1950s-style blonde beehive. The first anyone saw of the new hairdo was when the President made an announcement of it in the Rose Garden during a July press conference. He started this announcement by saying, “Do you like my hair?†and then he touched the hair in a dainty little way. The press had a lot […]
Monarch Podcast #14 – Shelby Earl!
Thursday, May 14, 2015 9:02 — 0 Comments
Seattle musician Shelby Earl drops by to chat Steve Earle, writing, her album “Swift Arrows,” working with Damien Jurado and playing her first show (where she was super nervous) at an ice cream social.
Kris Orlowski’s Songwriter Sessions
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:07 — 0 Comments
While there’s no shortage of eclectic shows in Seattle, an entire night of solo performances is a bit harder to find. If there’s a trend in the culture, it’s bent toward maximalism – big vocal harmonies, horn sections, extra toms played by back-up singers, etc. – and this leaves a little less room for the intimate experience of the solo performer. So I was intrigued when I saw the promo for Kris Orlowski’s Songwriter Sessions. It helped that the bill was unannounced – my curiosity was further piqued – and I decided to check it out. On my way to […]
Fascinating Figures: An Interview With Sara Lanzillotta
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 10:46 — 0 Comments
Sara Lanzillotta’s dolls have been sold across the country, at fine art locations ranging from the avant-garde MF Gallery in New York, to the on-guard Seattle Art Museum. Her portfolio of hand-sewn sculpture includes monsters, burlesque dancers, circus performers and the sideshow oddities traditionally exhibited alongside them. Her studio is difficult to locate, but I found it, camouflaged beneath a blanket of wisteria… the face of a Japanese Oni hanging above the door. I knocked on the door just as Sara’s husband was leaving for a pool game, then tip-toed past the grimacing Oni as Sara (a 4’11”, pastel-Goth) led me into her boudoir. She’s known […]
Cutting – Bismarck Martinez
Monday, May 11, 2015 10:33 — 0 Comments
My father once brought me to the sugar fields Where the border between Haiti and our country Was not clearly marked. He handed me a machete And told me chop, and chop again, the tall stalks. I was careful at first, measuring each sweeping gesture By how far away my father stood and how much air My lungs permitted me to take in and let out. It didn’t take long for the machete to grow light in my hands. I pulled it back and struck down a cane with two swift chops Again, and again, just as he said I […]
Eli Rosenblatt’s Elephant Car
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 10:16 — 0 Comments
Eli Rosenblatt, a man the Monarch chatted with here for his Timber! performance, will soon be releasing a new album for kids and families called, Elephant Car. The 7-track record features playful lyrics and fun stories atop world music – from samba to klezmer. The record features performances by some of Seattle’s best musicians, ‘ta boot – from drummer Sam Esecson (Polyrhythmics) to trumpeter Ahamefule J. Oluo (Industrial Revelation). “The album is an unabashed, joyful celebration of rhythm, absurdity and love for humanity,” says Rosenblatt, “I hope it inspires people of all ages to absorb themselves in the music with […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 30
Monday, May 4, 2015 12:48 — 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 Foghorns, Naomi Wachira and Carradin Michel. Enjoy! –Jake Uitti If you’re a fan of folk music, you’ve probably heard the stories about Bob Dylan steeling records from friends, taking them right from the house, and bringing them with him along his travels to listen to. These are the records that influenced his singing, his voice and his attack at the art of writing music. I imagine […]
M.I.A.’s Aesthetical Warfare – Ahsan Butt
Thursday, April 30, 2015 11:04 — 0 Comments
I. Bucky Done Gun blitzed The Wedge on MuchMusic. I couldn’t understand what I was seeing or hearing. The trumpets sounded out into a memory though. That brown girl with the trumpets, I remembered, almost a year later.
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
