by Chris Estey
For most of those we know, life has become about negotiating the grid. I am between a landline with a broken ringer and an iPhone. I handled PR for Betty Davis, who like Faust initiated pure desire as progress, in a long-ago new age of feminist-fueled riff-rock, on album-as-manifesto long players crafted around [...]
by Chris Estey
It was recently announced that Neutral Milk Hotel’s two landmark Merge albums, On Avery Island and In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, will be reissued on 180 gram vinyl about a decade after they were first released. The latter achieved apotheosis even beyond the realm of critics and hipsters, becoming ubiquitous in the [...]
by Chris Estey
The title of this biographical documentary of Robert M. Knight seems a little ostentatious, but does reflect the long-time rock photographer’s ability and desire to often be in the pit before bold artists arise, shooting as an agent of change, a shaper of rock’s visual aesthetics. Though Knight is the son of a [...]
by Chris Estey
I don’t usually write about albums here at the KEXP Blog (I’m mostly a book and DVD reviewer and live event reporter), but every now and then I’d like to give a plug and some background on a new album. These will be recent or upcoming releases from artists whose older work is [...]
by Chris Estey
More than any other performer, Iggy Pop’s sweet but cocky mug may be the deconstructed happy face of punk. Known more for self-abuse than ever hurting anyone else, and being a very endearing guy if you ever get to meet him, his open-heartedness and warm humor could use a little plagiarizing by the [...]
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by Chris Estey
The Long Winters, Live At The Showbox
John Roderick, Nabil Ayers, Eric Corson, and Jonathan Rothman have charm and energy to spare on this document of a full-length set recorded at the Showbox at the Market winding down the most recent TLW’s long-ass tour. Also included: Brassy horn section amping “romanthems” like the darling [...]
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KEXP is proud to sponsor the screening of Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback at the Northwest Film Forum starting Friday, November 7, to Thursday, November 13.
We’re giving away free tickets to the first five people who email with the subject line “Monks movie.”
review by Chris Estey
For fans of 60’s garage rock-inspired proto-punk, few bands are [...]
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by Chris Estey
Not to get all “Weird At My School” (that’s DJ El Toro’s job here on the KEXP Blog), but my favorite album that seemed to freak everybody out when I was growing up was Public Image Limited’s Flowers of Romance. This was a spare, traumatic burst of language and noise from John Lydon’s [...]
reviewed by Chris Estey
It’s been a big year for banging your head on the punk rock — on DVD. Long-time fans will be hitting the stores to score the release of Julien Temple’s majestic Joe Strummer bio-pic The Future Is Unwritten and of more-than-local-interest is the astonishing love and care put into Kerry O’Kane’s The [...]
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review by Rachel LeBlanc
Perhaps it’s because I had house shows on my mind lately, but when I first listened to Bellingham’s The Russians on their debut self-titled release, I instantly thought of how great they would sound, smashed up in a crowded basement. Energy oozing out of every song, they entice you to move around, [...]
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