2015 — The Monarch Review — Page 12
We Gonna Be Alright – Shaun Scott
Monday, March 16, 2015 15:13 — 0 Comments
I first heard the name Kendrick Lamar while riding shotgun in my best friend’s whip in March of 2013.Â
Seattle x Southwest!
Monday, March 16, 2015 12:55 — 1 Comment
Jared Cortese is putting together the dopest party at SXSW, hosting a Seattle showcase – the only one of its kind this year at the giant music festival – at The Local Pub & Patio in Austin on March 21st. We had a chance to talk to Jared about the production, the bands, and his hopes for this soon-to-be-recurring showcase.Â
Three Songs To The Head vol. 27
Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:43 — 1 Comment
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring Polyrhythmics, Paolo Escobar and Roaming Herds of Buffalo. Enjoy! –Jake Uitti Okay. I have a soft spot in my musical heart for Polyrhythmics. They are instant dance. There is drama and humor in their music two. And this song, “El Fuego”, in particular, reminds me of a late, hot night in Rick’s in Casablanca. There is the triumphant break, the heavy bass lines and the bright […]
One Super Important Question For Jen Wood
Monday, March 9, 2015 12:19 — 0 Comments
Jen Wood is in the midst of a long, bountiful career in music. She’s the hard working, songbird-voiced Seattle songwriter who recently came out with the new record, Wilderness, and who is well-known for her work with The Postal Service on the song “Nothing Better.” Given her storied past as a songwriter, we wanted to ask her One Super Important Question. Jake Uitti: What is your fondest memory of making music? Jen Wood: I’ve been thinking about your question and, honestly, I’m having trouble just singling out one moment. After 21 years there are soooo many memories to choose from … At […]
Love On A Bed Of Nails: An Anti-Valentine’s Cabaret Massacre – Poster Bot
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 11:48 — 0 Comments
Downtown Seattle, The Rendezvous, the night after Valentine’s. It was a perfect night for what the good people of Heart-On called an Anti-Valentine’s Cabaret Massacre. When I woke up the next morning it wasn’t because I felt rested. I felt sick. I didn’t have too much to drink, but had definitely indulged in way too much kummerspeck. Heart-On, hosted by Armatage Spanks, was a joint venture between Seattle performance artists and a New Orleans based burlesque troupe called Freaksheaux To Geaux (pronounced Freakshow To Go for those of us who don’t speak Creole). I didn’t know what to expect, but any self-described […]
A Few Questions Re: Gigs4U
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 10:24 — 0 Comments
Okay, full disclosure: I have NO IDEA if this service will be helpful, but it seemed interesting and I thought it better to engage than to ignore. Ed Beeson gave some of his time to answer a few questions about Gigs4U, an online service meant to connect musicians with venues, and this is what we talked about. What is the overall aim for the app? What is it going to take over the course of the next 12 months for it to be as successful as you’d like it to be? Our overall aim is to provide a link between […]
Stay Black and Die
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 10:08 — 0 Comments
“I don’t have to do nothing but eat, drink, stay black, and die.†–Langston Hughes, “Necessity†(1951).Â
THE CAP-SAC!!!!!
Monday, March 2, 2015 11:55 — 1 Comment
When I have the winter doldrums, I’m like many people: I like a free gift! And when I’m looking for a free gift, I often find myself wandering with some friends over to Central Cinema for Moviecat Trivia, a monthly game created and hosted by Jess Aceti and Brian Kirk. The treasures given out to winners range from old VHS horror movies to bowling trophies, but often they give away something COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY AMAZING. What is it, you ask? Let me answer your question with a question: What do you get when you combine a cap and a sac? […]
A Better Law of Gravity – Jim Brantingham
Monday, March 2, 2015 11:45 — 0 Comments
–taken from “A Member of the Wedding†By Carson McCullers Rain runs in rivers from the brim Of a hopelessly soaked hat. Water falls from his cardboard sign– “Anything helps. God Bless.†That plea, copied on so many Brown and ragged box ends, Could be dripping down Any wet leaf in any green forest. “A better law of gravity†Would not let this trace Of a human, this shadow, Fall so far from the grace Of a warm, dry room.
What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- Richard Kenney
