Prom Queen at Fred’s Wildlife
Sunday, October 12, 2014 1:44 — 0 Comments
It’s a grainy picture taken with a sub-par phone camera, but the elegance and majesty of Prom Queen – her band, her backup singers, her setup, her light – undoubtedly and necessarily shines through.Â
Prom Queen’s Midnight Veil
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 11:28 — 0 Comments
The cinematic, candy-coated, noir-hearted Prom Queen allures like a pink-blue-purple smoke stream – one of those cartoon smokes, even – with a hand on the end, index finger beckoning you toward the magic lamp, where, you’ll eventually find, the secret of your own curiosity: that love is mixed with poison and joy with a fall from grace.Â
Three Songs To The Head vol. 16
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 11:23 — 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 Nate Omdal & Spekulation, Theoretics ft. Shelton Harris, and Goodbye Heart. Enjoy!Â
Bumbershoot 2014 in Photos
Thursday, September 4, 2014 14:34 — 0 Comments
The Monarch Review mostly spent Bumbershoot 2014 laying low near the press area with Bobbi Rich and her excellent team of maritime party animals. The set for her music variety show Hangin Tuff became our home base. It was a perfect. We got to watch band after band come through and party down, drink the dangerous Hangin Tuff Punch, sing karaoke, and get silly. La Luz, Rose Windows, Dude York, Sandrider, and many more (16 bands actually!) Â made guest appearances. We did occasionally make it out to catch some bands and take some photos. True to The Monarch’s loyalty to […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 15
Thursday, September 4, 2014 12:11 — 0 Comments
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 The Gods Themselves, Wes Speight and Robb Benson. Enjoy!Â
The Monarch Stoop Sessions 1.1
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 12:17 — 2 Comments
Recently, in July, The Monarch Review, in conjunction with the wonderful Watt sisters of Seattle Living Room Shows and Seattle Secret Shows, put together an event on the stoop of The Monarch Apartments. It was a beautiful sunny Saturday, people lined the grass around the building, people were in the streets, it was, simply, fun. We are in the midst of putting together a big video celebration of the event, fettering Kris Orlowski and Ravenna Woods, but for now we wanted to show a more intimate moment from the afternoon with Evan Flory-Barnes and Caleb Thompson.Â
Marco Collins 15 Best Seattle Summer Jams 2014
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 16:58 — 0 Comments
Hall of Fame DJ, Marco Collins, is beloved by us Monarch folk. He started a musical movement in the 90’s and continues to be a friend of all things (Seattle) music today. His movie, The Glamour and the Squalor, all about his life within music scene, will be finished Thursday – the final shots for the film to be done at Chop Suey. In order to celebrate Marco, his movie and Seattle music, we thought we’d offer the DJ’s list of 15 Best Seattle Summer Jams 2014. ENJOY!
Freedom Is Slavery – Levi Fuller & the Library
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:24 — 0 Comments
When Chris Estey talks, we listen.
Three (but really Six) Songs To The Head vol. 14
Monday, August 11, 2014 10:42 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three (but this time six!) songs that moved us, three (six!) songs we love, three (six1) songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring Lydia Ramsey, Sebastian and the Deep Blue, In Cahoots, The Mama Rags, Susy Sun and Theoretics. Enjoy!Â
For Palestine – Mindie Lind
Thursday, July 31, 2014 13:06 — 0 Comments
Mindie Lind’s band Inly leaves us Monarchians in chills, sweats, tears, love. So when she reached out to us to say she’d written a new song, of course we were eager to hear it. Not only that, but its message is of peace – a resolution toward understanding the simple facts: don’t you know we’re here to die; don’t you know we’re here to live? Mindie provided a little language as to why she wrote this particular song, which you can read, hear, digest, love, below.Â
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
