Another Rainy Saturday

  I took it as a challenge when the music critic Christopher Weingarten said something on Twitter about how critics should need to have heard 500 records in a year to have a vote in the Village Voice’s annual Pazz and Jop poll of music critics. I’ve been voting in the poll since 2008, though [...]

Next Saturday, February 25, Western Washington University in Bellingham is hosting its third annual Pop Music Industry Conference from 10am-5pm. Even more exciting (at least to me) is that I will be part of a panel on music blogging, called “Rising Above The Rest: How to Make your Blog Stand Out” with my real-life friends and [...]

   In a bit of self-promotion here: not too long ago, Portland music journalist Robert Ham assembled a panel to discuss “the Seattle music scene” on his always-excellent For the Ears podcast. This panel included musician and artist Emily Pothast, Mark Baumgarten (from City Arts magazine), Nik Christofferson (from Seattle Rock Guy and Good to [...]

It’s a very special day here at ARS headquarters as our very first post went up exactly a year ago, on June 15, 2010. It started with posting a video of Seattle hip hop group Fresh Espresso playing at Sasquatch and some four hundred and some posts later, well, we’ve exceeded any expectations I could [...]

Around here at ARS headquarters, we couldn’t possibly be any more excited about the show we’re putting on Thursday night. It’s just two nights away! Three amazing Seattle dance pop bands: Secret Shoppers, Glitterbang and The Midget, are going to play. Chances are, you’ll walk out of the High Dive with a new favorite band. Tickets are available at [...]