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More by Brian J. Barr
Tooth & Nail’s Latest Cover Boy, a Grammy-Nominated Seattleitenew
Rural Appalachia is not generally regarded as a breeding ground for the arts, but it was in a house on a hillside in the West Virginia woods that Jordan Butcher cut his teeth as a rock-'n'-roll designer.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J. Barr |
01-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jordan Butcher, Tooth & Nail
Maas Media: How a Local Filmmaker Rediscovered Seattle’s Soulnew
As co-producer of the breakout indie hit Humpday, Jennifer Maas had the good fortune of attending Sundance and Cannes this year. She also put the finishing touches on a film of her own, Wheedle's Groove, wrapping up five years of documenting Seattle's forgotten soul scene.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J. Barr |
12-28-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
How a Designer Found a Niche Packaging Music in Something You Can’t Downloadnew
Byron Kalet has been applying the basic conventions of popular song—rhythm and tone—to an audio magazine he calls the Journal of Popular Noise. Recently, he released Residential, a collection of tracks by Foscil that is limited to 300 copies.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J. Barr |
12-07-2009 |
Music
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Why We Can't Leave the '90snew
Nostalgia is predictable, safe, and increasingly regressive. Soundgarden, thankfully, is not.
Seattle Weekly |
Maura Johnston |
02-06-2013 |
Music
Prince is Untouchablenew
There’s taking things to the next level, and then there’s Prince.
Seattle Weekly |
Duff McKagan |
06-13-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Prince, Duff McKagan
London, Axl, and Continued "Patience"new
Mere hours after landing at Heathrow I found myself onstage with a friend that I have been to hell and back with, and lived to tell the tale. Axl Rose and I just happened to be in hotel rooms next to each other. Unexpected? Oh, fuck yes.
Seattle Weekly |
Duff McKagan |
11-04-2010 |
Music
Tags: Guns N' Roses, Axl Rose
James McMurty's Quixotic Questnew
Never-quite-was is more like it, as James McMurtry, the son of famed novelist and screenwriter Larry (Lonesome Dove) McMurtry, has yet to live up to the "next big thing" status bestowed on him when he burst out of the gates with his debut.
Seattle Weekly |
Mike Seely |
02-22-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Patti Smith on Christ, Cobain and Robert Mapplethorpenew
Twenty years after the death of her friend and lover, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, punk-rock pioneer Patti Smith has released Just Kids, her memoir of the couple's bohemian, hardly-fed days in late-'60s New York City.
Seattle Weekly |
Chris Kornelis |
01-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
