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Mad Season: Above All Else

By on March 26, 2013 – 12:59 am5 Comments | 3,721 views
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Of all the Pearl Jam off shoot bands, and let’s face it, there have been many (Brad, RNDM, The Rockfords, Three Fish, Tres Mts, Wellwater Conspiracy etc.), it was Mad Season which had the biggest …

Legacy Recordings Announce Newly Expanded Deluxe Edition of Mad Season’s ‘Above’ To Be Released April 2,

By on January 7, 2013 – 6:48 pmNo Comment | 68 views
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Legacy Recordings — the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment — will release a newly expanded Deluxe Edition of Above, the first and only album to be completed by Seattle-based rock supergroup Mad Season. Formed …

Valis: Minds through Space and Time

By on November 1, 2012 – 12:56 amNo Comment | 23 views
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Valis
Minds through Space and Time
(Strange Earth
Valis is a three-piece band from the Pacific Northwest featuring the Conner brothers – Van and Patrick – most notably from their bands Screaming Trees and Kitty Kitty. With Van …

Barrett Martin Group: Artifact

By on May 1, 2012 – 10:11 pmNo Comment | 36 views
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Barrett Martin Group
Artifact
(Sunyata)
Drummer extraordinaire Barrett Martin made a name for himself in seminal Seattle rock bands like Skin Yard, Screaming Trees, Mad Season, and Tuatara. Though he still belts out the rock on his drum …

The Universal Truth of the Barrett Martin Group’s Artifact

By on May 1, 2012 – 6:49 pmNo Comment | 35 views
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Barrett Martin is a drummer, composer, producer, writer, and Zen artist who has performed around the world with several rock and jazz groups since the alternative music explosion of the 1990s. Some of those bands …

Mark Lanegan: Blues Funeral

By on March 1, 2012 – 3:43 pmNo Comment | 19 views
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Mark Lanegan
Blues Funeral
(4AD)
Though he came to prominence with the Screaming Trees and later Queens of the Stone Age, singer Mark Lanegan has been releasing beautiful mind melting solo albums since 1990.
Known for his whiskey-soaked baritone …

Barrett Martin: Zenga

By on November 1, 2009 – 8:48 pmNo Comment | 21 views
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Barrett Martin
Zenga
(Fast Horse)
Some might remember Barrett Martin as the drummer for the great ’90s rock band Screaming Trees or some might remember him from the “super group” Tuatara. But what some may not know is …

Valis: Dark Matter

By on October 1, 2009 – 4:04 pmNo Comment | 25 views
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Valis
Dark Matter
(Small Stone)
When the dust settled from the breakup of Screaming Trees in 1996, Van Conner didn’t waste any time in pushing forward with his side project Valis. Conner took charge as front man and …

Tuatara: Creating With A Montage Of Musicians

By on September 1, 2007 – 6:15 pmNo Comment | 10 views
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Not many music fans know the name Barrett Martin.
They don’t know he is an accomplished jazz musician, percussionist, record label owner (Fast Horse Records) and producer. Martin also played and toured with blues legend Ceedell …

Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan: Ballad of the Broken Seas

By on July 4, 2006 – 1:09 amNo Comment | 25 views
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Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan
Ballad of the Broken Seas
(V2)
Ballad of the Broken Seas is an enjoyable throwback to an older style of grittier, more melancholic country. As the EP Ramblin’ Man foreshadowed, this album has all the …