Three Songs To The Head vol. 6
Friday, December 6, 2013 10:04 — 0 Comments
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 Prom Queen, Mike and Matty, and Syrinx Effect. Enjoy!
Open-Source Living vol. 4 – Jessie Sawyers
Thursday, December 5, 2013 12:39 — 0 Comments
Austin has some surprisingly indecisive fall weather: 80 degrees today, then freezing on Saturday. I didn’t expect this! Something else I didn’t expect: so many big box stores. I mean, maybe I should have because “Everything’s bigger…†but still, I can’t believe how many Wal-Marts, Targets, Office Depots, and HEB Supermarkets exist within a 10 mile radius of each other.
OVID ON THE SHORE – Ed Skoog
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 11:12 — 0 Comments
Florence is boring, its glories tawdry and punches
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
Tumor – Joe Mundy
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 11:37 — 0 Comments
We slept in tents on the shore of Whiskey Lake. Dean the Marine had a brain tumor. Frozen in shock, we stood around and witnessed him scream in agony as his head exploded. Finally someone threw him in a pick-up truck and off they sped. We could see the rooster tail of dust for a mile or so. Later, the rest of us sat around the campfire eating Captain Crunch and shootin’ the breeze. We were interrupted by the call of a lonely loon rolling off the water. “Sounds like Dean.†Someone nervously joked. No one laughed but the loon. […]
Dancing With Kitten LaRue
Monday, November 25, 2013 12:42 — 0 Comments
Kitten LaRue is a performer and Producer/Artistic Director of the burlesque troupe The Atomic Bombshells. She’s also gorgeous! We had a chance to chat with Kitten about the Seattle scene, what she loves best about performing and where she gets her costuming! Jake Uitti: What is the most exciting part of performing burlesque? Kitten LaRue: For me, the most exciting part of burlesque is the immediate and electric connection you get to have with your audience.  Few art forms allow you to get the instant gratification of a room full of people screaming at the top of their lungs […]
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!
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- 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 […]
