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It’s the time of day when the sun is getting ready to clock off and let the moon hang out for the night, and I’m sitting in a damply lit bar in Ballard across from Lincoln Barr, lead singer and brainchild of Red Jacket Mine. The loud rock music playing
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I saw Sweet Water at the Puyallup Fair when I was 14. I followed them religiously for three or four years after the experience. Sweet Water is a tale of a band that was on the brink of enormous success and yet, somehow, fell short. A band that came into the
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I saw Sweet Water at the Puyallup Fair when I was 14. I followed them religiously for three or four years after the experience. Sweet Water is a tale of a band that was on the brink of enormous success and yet, somehow, fell short. A band that came into
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Tacoma has an emerging music scene that shouldn’t be ignored. It is in the hands of bands like The Makeup Monsters and a band that I had the privilege of interviewing, The Sugar Beats. Both bands are comprised of 17-year-old rockers. I spoke with The Sugar Beats’ guitar playing lead
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Tacoma has an emerging music scene that shouldn’t be ignored. It is in the hands of bands like The Makeup Monsters and a band that I had the privilege of interviewing, The Sugar Beats. Both bands are comprised of 17-year-old rockers. I spoke with The Sugar Beats’ guitar playing lead
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I’m 10 minutes late to the interview. Dammit. I am meeting the two members of the Makeup Monsters at the Spar in Old Town Tacoma. As I enter this down-home neighborhood bar I take inventory of the constituents and search for the two younger looking fellows who make up this
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I’m 10 minutes late to the interview. Dammit. I am meeting the two members of the Makeup Monsters at the Spar in Old Town Tacoma. As I enter this down-home neighborhood bar I take inventory of the constituents and search for the two younger looking fellows who make up this
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So there I am, playing bass for Red Card as a junior in high school at the University Place Recreation Center. Our lead singer, Dale Coleman, called for someone in the crowd to come up and freestyle rap with him over a jam we had made up that week —
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So there I am, playing bass for Red Card as a junior in high school at the University Place Recreation Center. Our lead singer, Dale Coleman, called for someone in the crowd to come up and freestyle rap with him over a jam we had made up that week —
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“Absinthe has a wonderful color, green. A glass of Absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of Absinthe and a sunset?” — Oscar Wilde Well, besides the fact that I have never tried to punch a police officer after seeing
