Seattle Music

It's a strange irony that I write an article about Project Lionheart. Irony because the intertwines that brought me to write this article is prodigy of Seattle's almost incestual music scene, and its ability to come full circle in the strangest ways. Irony because not only do I know the band personally, I have been a peer, friend and fan before the group emerged like a phoenix back in 2008. Irony because I have seen this band pay dues, fight fights, and lay the groundwork for the musical foundation that exudes what Project Lionheart is about. Irony because I normally do not write about bands I'm friends with, but this is an exception... I know this band, they are a part of a musical family here in Seattle, and this is what I know.

My first impression of frontman Caleb Cunningham and Jerod Keith (bass) was in ...

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Sink or Swim is both a great name and an exceedingly talented new band. Particularly being brand new, sink or swim is really the only thing a band can try to do in today's music scene. And with what these guys have to offer, they are most definitely set up to swim.

With Frank Arcega, aka The Boss Demus, on guitar and vocals, Sam Thorkildsen, aka Lbo, on bass and Robert Croot, aka Jahnny Bones, on drums, Sink or Swim plays a highly skilled set of reggae dub rock music that is both fun and mesmerizing. The band is heavily influenced by bands like Sublime and 311, but they are not a sound-alike by any means. More and more musical influences creep into their music all the time and sometimes when you least expect it. There are bits of punk, ska, surf, hip-hop, rock and even an occasional dance ...

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Green Garage Productions is a group of Musicians, Artists, Songwriters, Studio Engineers, and great friends unified in the belief and practice of making music that gives people more than a sound to compare to their favorite artist. "We are not Hip Hop, we're not Rock, Jazz, Techno, R&B and all those other genres you find on a drop down on myspace," explains Jordan Jeffries, AKA Don-J. Green Garage Productions really came together by a series of chance meetings and family ties. It was while Jordan was in college in Memphis, Tennessee, 1992, that he was given a cheap beat program called Hip Hop Ejay from a friend's little brother. He fell in love with the feeling of taking something as simple as a metronome and turning it into a song. Before long, he joined forces with Levoy Young (V.O.Y.), who had an old school off-white ...

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Mariah Carey
"Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel"
August 25, 2009

Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel is Mariah Carey's 12th studio album, and if you believe Mariah Carey's insistence that she's eternally 12-years-old, then this means that she has a record for every year she's been alive. But more important than Mariah's quantity of output, is Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel's content. For the album Mariah worked with Timbaland, longtime collaborators Jermaine Dupri and Walter Afanasieff, but the lion's share of the album's tracks were co-written by The-Dream and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, who, in addition to writing E=MC2 lead single "Touch My Body," are responsible for some of the best pop songs on the radio in the last few years. But that presence on the album is unlikely to supplant Mariah Carey's own, very distinctive personality. Producer The Dream wrote about ...

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"PC Load Letter? What the F*&k does that mean?" In the movie "Office Space," it was simply a copy machine error Michael Bolton didn't know how to deal with. In the Seattle music scene, however, PC Load Letter is a three-piece band that you may have never heard of, but that you should definitely start listening to now. And with a new CD coming out in July, you will have the opportunity to catch them soon.

Chris Vincent and Jake Gray, who have known each other since elementary school, had started a project about four years ago and were working on recording some demo material at Chris' house. Chris has been playing guitar for about fifteen years, and Jake has played bass around the same length of time. They ran into their old elementary school buddy, Elvin Bucu, who happened to have been mastering the drums for the ...

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