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Sonicsgate Documentary Gets an Assist from Shawn Kemp

Michael van Baker — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:00:14 +0000

Ironically, given producer Adam Brown’s ejection from Howard Schultz book-signing at Costco in 2011, director Reid is joining Reign Man Kemp for a DVD signing at the SoDo Costco from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. this Thursday, May 17. It looks like you need to be a Costco member to get in, in which case you already know the address: 4401 4th Avenue South.

Pearl Jam Twenty: Totally Awesome and Oddly Incomplete

Clint Brownlee — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:00:22 +0000

If I had filmmaking talent and had befriended Pearl Jam’s members when they called themselves "Mookie Blaylock," the movie I’d make about their career today would be a lot like Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam Twenty. It’s sweet. It’s funny. It’s moving. And it rocks. But I would tack another hour on the running time—maybe move some scenes around, too—and dig deeper into some of the career-shaping decisions and events that director Cameron Crowe holds up for us to admire, and then, like an enviably proud kid at show-and-tell, excitedly replaces with something else.

The Aural Peaks and Valleys of Tres Mts. and Tres Mts.

Clint Brownlee — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:22:12 +0000

But where Tres. Mts. the record is borderline loungey, Tres Mts. the band (Dug Pinnick of King’s X, the Fastbacks’ Richard Stuverud, Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament) was pounding and shred-heavy. Where the record’s lyrical repetition aggravates, Dug Pinnick’s ultra-lanky, effortlessly schmoove stage presence and soulified live vocals made each refrain unique and visceral.