by Chris Estey
The axiomatic secret of the music business is that in whatever capacity you may be employed in it, you’re going to be working really hard. And that should be the first thing you tell the co-worker or intern or fellow fan who admits they want your job (because there are many who do, [...]
by Chris Estey
It’s an exciting week here at the pop culture press media compound, hiding behind stacks of dying music magazines before the zeitgeist helicopters swoop in with batches of overheated Kindles to start a blaze. Before our demise, what we’re amped about is a couple of books and a couple of matching DVDs that [...]
by Chris Estey
33 1/3 is a series of pocket-sized books, each volume focusing on a single album. This is the seventeenth installment of our attempt to read all 57 (and counting) of these things, and to scribble some impressions of each. As always, please keep in mind that it’s always just one writer’s opinion, often [...]
Posted in 33 1/3 Odyssey, KEXP | Tagged Nas |
by Chris Estey
This installment of SSO is a bit like the Droste effect: It is a list of great books about great music lists. (I also would say it’s a great list, but that’s my own opinion.) Three old, new, and not yet published but on the way collections of collections collected below.
Keeping in step [...]
by Chris Estey
Rock festivals can be an awesome, appalling joussaince — an embarrassment of riches in which most of its value is suffering. The 2009 Capitol Hill Block Party was a perfectly organic construct of balancing personal pleasures and community celebration within the city, without too much pain. In other words, it was a ton [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill Block Party, KEXP, Local Music, Photo Galleries | Tagged Akimbo, Black Lips, Gossip, Hey Marseilles, Mika Miko, Moondoggies, Sleepy Eyes of Death, Sonic Youth, Starfucker, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Thermals, Truckasaurus |
by Chris Estey
Three new creative non-fiction books get deep and dirty with the details via some of the very best writing I’ve read in some time. One, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974 - 1982 by Nicholas Rombes, reveals many secrets about the aesthetic origins of 70s underground rock and the ideals of independent music [...]
by Chris Estey
33 1/3 is a series of pocket-sized books, each volume focusing on a single album. This is the seventeenth installment of our attempt to read all 57 (and counting) of these things, and to scribble some impressions of each. As always, please keep in mind that it’s always just one writer’s opinion, often [...]
Posted in 33 1/3 Odyssey, KEXP | Tagged Wire |
by Chris Estey
Two can’t-miss rock writing related events coming up in the next few days are readings signings/multi-media and live music action involving author/columnist/musician/PR goddess Jessica Hopper and HATE Comics creator Peter Bagge. Like Richie Unterberger and Gillian G. Gaar who made appearances for their new books a couple of weeks back, both have fresh, [...]
by Chris Estey
This week in literature-friendly, music-loving Seattle we have two legendary rock writers, Gillian G. Gaar and Richie Unterberger, making public appearances for their brand new tomes: The Rough Guide to Nirvana and White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day, respectively.
Gillian Gaar has informed and entertained local and national rock fans for years [...]
Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary, directed by Jamie J. Johnson ( United Kingdom, 2009) 93 min.
Festival Screenings:June 7, 2009 4:00 PM, Kirkland Performance Center
Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary (Sparkle Motion Saves The World!!)
review by Chris Estey
For a director who claims the caustic satire of Spinal Tap and Best In Show as [...]
