PNW Musicians Score an Unlikely Gig by Accidentally Scoring a Lost Movie

****THIS ARTICLE WAS LARGELY A WORK OF FICTION. SEE IMPORTANT UPDATE AT THIS ARTICLE’S END**** Producer/musician/composer Erik Blood should be a familiar name to PNW music fans, having produced records for Shabazz Palaces, Tacocat, and a host of other Seattle artists as well as producing and performing his own material. Seattle composer/singer/instrumentalist Corey J. Brewer,…

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Chris Cunningham: Musician and Accidental Video Auteur

Chris Cunningham is chilling in a booth at a Capitol Hill bar, shooting the breeze over whiskeys and talking about the latest chapter in his artistic journey.“It still surprises me that anyone’s asking me to make videos for them,” he says with a combination of amusement and bemusement. “I’ve basically never had any training. I’m…

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Ravenna 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…

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