One Super Important Question For Sean De Tore
Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:00 — 0 Comments
Sean De Tore is one of the coolest cats in the biz. He works on KIRO Radio’s Ron and Don Show, is a regular contributor to the widely popular TBTL Podcast and curates, and produces and hosts The Mixtape Podcast, which features an array of Seattle’s best bands (he even has a Mixtape tattoo!). We at The Monarch wanted to ask Sean One Super Important Question about what inspires him about the Seattle music scene.Â
Writing Poetry – James Brantingham
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 15:04 — 3 Comments
Not so much a writer at a desk
Sharing Secrets With The Watt Sisters
Thursday, January 9, 2014 14:21 — 0 Comments
Sisters Kristen and Carrie Watt curate and host both the Seattle Living Room Shows and Seattle Secret Shows, both of which have grown from small 15-20 person performances beginning in 2008 to bigger – yet still intimate – 100-200 person shows to date. They’ve booked bands from St. Paul De Vence to Damien Jurado. The Monarch caught up with the Sisters Watt to ask them a few questions about the great things they got going on!
The Evil Eye: A Love Story – Andrew Harris
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 12:06 — 0 Comments
Truth be told, Benjamin Verdoes never set out to write, let alone record, a solo album. Originally written for an audience of one, his girlfriend Ifrah, these particular works were – no, are – so intensely personal that showing them to anyone but a few select friends, was, as Verdoes puts it, “the scariest thing I’ve ever thought of.†The 11 gifts on The Evil Eye are autobiographical in a way that Verdoes’ previous works have not been, proving a new challenge to the veteran songwriter. Â
Three Songs To The Head vol. 7
Monday, January 6, 2014 15:23 — 1 Comment
Hello and welcome to our latest in the running series, Three Songs To The Head. Here we offer three songs we can’t stop thinking about, three songs we love, three songs we want to share with you. In this installment we feature Wishbeard, The Jesus Rehab and Julia Massey.
One Super Important Question For Open Mike Eagle
Friday, January 3, 2014 13:02 — 0 Comments
Rapper Open Mike Eagle was recently on Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast – one of The Monarch’s favorite shows. So, we thought we would catch up with OME and ask him One Super Important Question… enjoy!
City Of Lost Dreams
Friday, January 3, 2014 12:51 — 0 Comments
New York Times bestselling author Magnus Flyte (aka Christina Lynch and Meg Howrey), who wrote City of Lost Dreams, will be reading at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park on Thursday, January 16th at 7pm. So, we thought we should take a moment and ask the author(s) a few questions about their latest novel!
One Super Important Question For Eric Gilbert And Adam Zacks
Thursday, January 2, 2014 12:50 — 0 Comments
If you’re in a band, the turn of the new year marks the time when you start thinking about applying to festivals – from Doe Bay to Treefort to Sasquatch to Bumbershoot. We here at The Monarch Review thought it would be fun to reach out to a couple festival organizers to get their take on some favorite – and not so favorite – moments about the festivals they put on. Eric Gilbert, who runs Boise’s Treefort, and Adam Zacks, who runs Sasquatch, answered One Super Important Question.
Why Ryan Should Like Me: 34 TOP REASONS – Elaina G. Smith
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 12:05 — 1 Comment
(Wherein I address my 13-year-self, who listed her 34 top attributes on a piece of notebook paper written in pencil)
Blue Yodel No. 1 – Harold Whit Williams
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 12:00 — 0 Comments
Let us both huddle around
What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- Richard Kenney
Book Release and Reading Feb. 6
January 6th, 2016
Hello fellow readers, travelers and Monarchians! Our first book, Traveling Light, written by Seattle author, Jim Brantingham, is now for sale! And we will be throwing a release party for it Feb. 6 at 6pm in Ravenna Third Place Books (on the corner of 65th and 20th NE). Jim will be reading from the book and there will be guest readers accompanying him. Space is limited, so we suggest you come early. Books can be bought through this link here or at Ravenna Third Place Books (which just ordered it’s second wave of books). We are super excited for this release and […]
