Posts by Tony Kay
Your All-Northwest, All-Ghoulish Halloween Playlist
Halloween’s just around the corner, and you’ll need a soundtrack for all of the trick-or-treating, parties, and all-around skullduggery. Doubtless, there’s a ton of horror-themed songs out there for your All Hallows Mix. Northwest artists have generated their share of genuinely spooky/scary/horrific tunes, to be sure—enough to put together a pretty primo playlist. I’m not…
Read MoreRavenna Woods’ Chris Cunningham Talks Scary Movies
It’s an overcast Saturday afternoon in Upper Queen Anne, on one of the first honest-to-God, truly autumnal autumn days of 2016, and I’m on my way to interview Ravenna Woods lead singer/guitarist/songwriter Chris Cunningham. The wind’s picking up, and the trees—some flashing lambent autumn reds and yellows, others bare and skeletal—are bending and eddying with…
Read MoreAir-Raid Shelter: An interview with podcast host Aaron Roden.
Aaron Roden is the kind of guy who’s incredibly easy to bullshit with over beers. Affable, unpretentious, and funny, he possesses a gift for talking—and listening—to relative strangers. And often, those relative strangers open up in unexpected ways. That unique gift’s enabled the veteran podcaster to carve out a distinctive and steadily-growing niche. Roden’s shepherded…
Read MoreExile in Hicksville: Spokane’s Lost Underground Music Scene
For the benefit of the uninitiated: Spokane is a rural Eastern Washington manufacturing town, isolated from the rest of humanity by Canadian wilderness to the north, arid Palouse plains to the south, the Cascades to the west, and the Rockies to the east. Even today it’s known as a conservative little place without much patience…
Read MoreThey’re All All Right: A Users’ Guide to Cheap Trick
Yeah, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s proven to be about as relevant an arbiter of, y’know, actual merit as the Oscars. And no, that’s not a compliment. But I still got the feels when Cheap Trick were selected as 2016 inductees on April 8. When Cheap Trick was born in the mid-1970s, the Billboard…
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