One Super Important Question For D’Vonne Lewis
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 14:02 — 0 Comments
After reading Aham’s description of Industrial Revelation’s genesis we wanted to add band leader D’Vonne Lewis’s voice to the conversation by asking him One Super Important Question. So, D’Vonne, how, in your mind, did the band form those handful of years ago when you were a young drummer?Â
Taking Five With The Moondoggies’ Kevin Murphy
Monday, December 2, 2013 12:41 — 0 Comments
Kevin Murphy fronts the Seattle band, The Moondoggies. He and his group of minstrels will be playing the inaugural Timbrrr Winter Music Festival in Leavenworth, WA this January. The Monarch had a chance to chat with Kevin about winter drinks, his favorite gigs of the year and more!
Video Premier! The Jesus Rehab – Mind Readers
Monday, December 2, 2013 12:02 — 0 Comments
The shot begins with a pan onto Julia Massey, the television glowing blue upon her face, her eye twitching. Some people turn to lizards, a man on the TV reports. A-Wah-Huh?!?! Then: Rock Music. In the song, we’re informed of an idea: everyone is a slave to the Lizard King. What this means can only be deciphered by watching the new creation from TJR, which happens to include a boxing match with a huge orange glove, copious amounts of confetti and so many of the wonderful faces of the Seattle creative community.Â
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis World Tour vol. 7 – Andrew Joslyn
Saturday, November 23, 2013 12:25 — 0 Comments
I remember an inkling of a faint dream I had last night. One of my favorite moments from the live show of the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis tour is during the performance of the song, “Thrift Shop,” where a huge mass of metallic golden confetti is blown into the air during a climatic part before the bridge. The magical part happens right after this, though: the golden confetti floats and lingers in the air for the next 2-3 songs like golden spinning fireflies. Glittering and strangely meditative. It is always a mystical period of time during the set. This memory […]
New TV Show: Band in Seattle
Friday, November 22, 2013 13:41 — 1 Comment
There is a new show in town! And this one features Seattle bands performing live and broadcasted on CW11/KSTW. We talked with Nolan Lehman, who shoots the live band performances for the new show, about trying to capture live gigs, what the new TV program will be about and more!
One Super Important Question For Spekulation
Thursday, November 21, 2013 13:13 — 0 Comments
I’ve been seeing videos pop up all over Facebook (even one using the remix of a song I play on by my band The Great Um) involving the rapper/producer Spekulation and the UAI dance production, Enemy Within. So, to get some clarification of this cool project, I decided to ask Spek One Super Important Question.
Open-Source Living vol. 3 – Jessie Sawyers
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 13:27 — 0 Comments
What a wonderful whirl… My life. Right now: My apartment has been productivity central lately. My roommate and I have yet to get a couch down here in Austin and, as amazing as it is to sprawl across the living room floor for a hearty full-body stretch after our 5-hour dance rehearsals, somehow the floor is less welcoming for 8+ hour computer work sessions. And, well, I can’t tell you the number of unintentional shavasanas I’ve found myself in when trying to do computer work in bed. Bad news for my to-do lists.
One Super Important Question for Ahamefule J. Oluo
Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:59 — 0 Comments
One morning I was cruising Facebook and saw a post from Ahamefule J. Oluo saying, “I just want to say. The new [Industrial Revelation] album comes out next month… We put out one track, people didn’t seem to notice, we will put out another track and it may go unnoticed but it doesn’t change the fact that we are the best band in Seattle and if you disagree, come to a show and then reconsider.â€Â
One Super Important Question For McTuff
Monday, November 11, 2013 13:40 — 0 Comments
If on a Tuesday evening you find yourself with nothing exciting to do, you might hear yourself thinking, “I remember people talking about the Seamonster Lounge and that band McTuff – maybe I should go there.†If, as it happens, you decide to get on a bus, call a taxi/uber/pink mustache/orange flag/horse and buggy, walk or drive to the Seamonster on a Tuesday night, say, around midnight, you will see, in the back right corner of the shotgun-style bar a trio of musicians: Joe Doria on keys, Andy Coe on guitar and Tarik Abouzied on drums.
Open-Source Living vol. 2 – Jessie Sawyers
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 12:31 — 0 Comments
I am already so deeply appreciative of these Monarch diary entries. Wow.Â
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