Dustbowl Revival
Friday, July 22, 2011 19:25 — 0 Comments
A couple of weeks ago I walked into Lucid Jazz Lounge to hear the joyous sounds of what seemed like a fifteen piece swing band. The players packed onto the tiny stage were convulsing and roaring in sonic ecstasy. Their hot cherry attire flashed under the lights and the audience clapped and hooted with abandon. Two minutes later, the song was over, the set was finished, and I was left to wonder why I hadn’t arrived earlier. Lucky for me, Dustbowl Revival was selling their new album Holy Ghost Station, and my friends and I pitched in and purchased the […]
Madman!
Sunday, July 10, 2011 16:13 — 2 Comments
DJ Absolute Madman makes beautifully defiant hip-hop. Â
Music for the Masses, Music for the One
Thursday, June 16, 2011 14:20 — 7 Comments
Different musics demand different venues for the creation of an optimum sonic experience.
Monarch Music for Brooders and Believers
Sunday, April 3, 2011 13:07 — 0 Comments
Gout is a new cut from Ruminator, a side-project of Diminished Men‘s guitarist Steve Schmitt. Brooding and pensive, this song embodies exactly the project’s name. Spekulation is making his second appearance in Monarch Music, this time with a remix of Michele Khazak. Quite What It Is also ruminates. Khazak’s lyrics lilt and sway, involuting and coiling against a sea of sonic melancholy. One-eyed Dog is, more or less, a field recording. Louis Loomis, as the group calls itself, explores an eery musical landscape with distorted violin and anxious drums, the bass looming and dark. Errant keyboard tones arrive and depart like […]
Monarch Music is Many
Monday, March 14, 2011 3:23 — 0 Comments
Shana Cleveland & the Sandcastles do Oh Man, Cover the Ground, the title song from her new solo record, now available at shanacleveland.bandcamp.com It’s a love song about what’s hidden.Â
Turkey Fingers – Corespondents
Sunday, February 27, 2011 3:46 — 0 Comments
Turkey Fingers Corespondents make American World Music: theme parks invaded by deranged opium-mongers; absinthe truck rallies; Hungarian cowboy ballerinas–this is the world of Corespondents. Check them out on myspace, where their genre is listed as “Concrete/Healing and EasyListening/Jungle. They might be serious. Turkey Fingers is a song from a short-run record of previously unreleased tracks called Statues and Limitations.
Oseh Shalom – Eli Rosenblatt
Sunday, February 27, 2011 3:33 — 1 Comment
Oseh Shalom Eli Rosenblatt has been playing all sorts of music all over Seattle for well over a decade. He currently plays with a seven-piece outfit aptly named the Eli Rosenblatt Band. Here he goes back to his roots with a stripped down prayer-in-song.
Song of the Family – Brad Dunn and Dandelion Gold
Sunday, February 27, 2011 3:13 — 0 Comments
Song of the Family Brad Dunn has long been known in Seattle’s underground music circles as an over-achieving drinker, a brilliant songwriter and a wise-ass. Dandelion Gold Records recently released his full length record Brad Dunn and Dandelion Gold on CD. It’s available at www.dandeliongold.com.
Monarch Music 1.0
Monday, February 14, 2011 13:14 — 1 Comment
Dave Abramson’s composition Sidney Abramjits leaves no question—it’s a gorgeous piece of music.
Sidney Abramajtis – Dave Abramson
Monday, February 7, 2011 12:03 — 0 Comments
Sidney Abramajtis Dave Abramson’s composition Sidney Abramajtis leaves no question—it’s a gorgeous piece of music. Simple and naked, elegant.
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
