A conversation with Seattle
The recent stories suggesting that Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin, and Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan are rekindling former Seattle supergroup Mad Season? Sorry, false. “It’s not another Mad Season,” Martin told me last week. Continue reading Talkin’ Martin and McCready Mad Season Blues
For those of us who discover new music in used vinyl bins rather than at the club or on the radio—KEXP, I really will tune in more often, and Jet City Stream, I love you when I do—all the year-end best-new-whatever lists go right over our heads. The pleading from hipper friends to listen to Alt-J and Head and the Heart (what, not new?), just reminders of how blissfully out of touch we are with today’s darlings. Continue reading Top 10 Reasons 2012 Rocked Like 1992
Thank you, San Francisco, for Thee Oh Sees, whose shambling and sexy surf-rock-on-heavy-duty-hallucinogens live shows officially make life worth living. Continue reading Your Live Music Bets for the Weekend of October 5th to the 7th
“I don’t really like most of what passes for “rock” these days. Corporate radio and the major labels have somewhat destroyed it.[…]That makes me kind of mad, actually, but I think we’re just currently in a bad cycle. And everything happens in cycles.” Continue reading Seattle Rock Veterans Present their Walking Papers (Part 2)
Around 20 years ago, Seattle was home to two true rock supergroups—Temple of the Dog and Mad Season. Though short-lived (by design and by untimely death, respectively), both bands still have fans who will likely dig the city’s newest uber-talented collective, Walking Papers—and not just because of its familiar faces. Turns out when vocalist/guitarist Jeff Angell (Post Stardom Depression, Missionary Position), drummer Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees, Mad Season), keyboardist Benjamin Anderson (Rorschach Test, Missionary Position), and bassist Duff McKagan (Guns N Roses, Loaded) get together, they make really good music. Continue reading “Seattle Rock Veterans Present their Walking Papers (Part 1)”