Best of 2014: Top Talent from Tacoma
Wade Neal – I’m sitting in front of my vintage speakers from Santa thinking back on the year in Tacoma music.
Wade Neal – I’m sitting in front of my vintage speakers from Santa thinking back on the year in Tacoma music.
Matt Ashworth – Whether it’s food, sweets, booze or television, the holidays are a perfect time to binge, so December 23 seemed like a great day to share a list of our contributors’ favorite television programs of 2014.
Matt Ashworth – Though we haven’t consistently written about movies for a decade, I still ask contributors to share their favorites each year. It’s like having a super smart, diverse group of people as a personal focus group when you’re loading up your Netflix and Amazon Prime queues for the next few years.
Marco Collins – 2014 was a fantastic year for Seattle records (and sports teams), but I managed to narrow my yearly list down to the 35 great local recordings. This year I decided to include EPs because so many important releases only had 4-6 songs.
Matt Ashworth – Earlier this year, Abe Beeson wrote about two songs from Patrick Galactic and called Tacoma singer/songwriter “a musician to watch.” I did just that, first checking out more of his solo stuff, then by revisiting his work with Death By Stars and then by inviting him to open our yearly Metalween night.