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Dialysis in the Van: A review of the movie D-TOUR

By Chris Estey | Published: July 6, 2010

Seattle Premiere: July 9-11 at the Northwest Film Forum Director Jim Granato in attendance through the weekend. Drummer Pat Spurgeon is the kind of guy you meet in a lot of bands. Every good band has at least one player like him; the kind of guy who never had any other thoughts but playing musicRead more...

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Special Screening: The Mountain Goats, The Life of the World to Come at NWFF

By Chris Estey | Published: April 15, 2010

The Mountain Goats, The Life of the World to Come playing April 17 only at Northwest Film Forum This is an hour of pure Mountain Goats. So pure in fact it is John Darnielle filmed playing without a audience, in an auditorium just a few months ago (Lyman Hall, at Pomona College, in Claremont, CA,Read more...

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Scribes Sounding Off: Summer Is A Warm TDK On The Dash

By Chris Estey | Published: October 12, 2009

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 craftedRead more...

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Scribes Sounding Off: Our Noise, Our Love

By Chris Estey | Published: September 24, 2009

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 inRead more...

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Bumbershoot Preview: Rock Prophecies

By Jim Beckmann | Published: August 31, 2009

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 ofRead more...

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Come-Back Corner: Gordon Gano & The Ryans’ Under The Sun

By Chris Estey | Published: August 28, 2009

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 workRead more...

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DVD Review: Iggy Pop in Lust For Life

By Chris Estey | Published: August 19, 2009

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 byRead more...

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2008′s DVDs That Rock

By Chris Estey | Published: January 6, 2009

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” likeRead more...

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We Are All Monks: A review of Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback + ticket giveaway

By Chris Estey | Published: November 3, 2008

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, fewRead more...

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Beijing Rocks: Public Image Limited’s Martin Atkins in China

By Chris Estey | Published: August 19, 2008

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 JohnRead more...

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