Medium, Meet Three Imaginary Girls
Seattle’s sparkly indie-pop press is now live on Medium!
The Imaginary “Behind the Music” backstory
Three Imaginary Girls is a Seattle-based indie music website. I launched TIG with my musical bestie and partner-in-crime Imaginary Liz back in 2002 — before iPhones, social media, and blogs— with the goal of documenting our show-going escapades with boundless enthusiasm for the burgeoning music scene around us.
We enlisted a third friend, created our website, and named it Three Imaginary Girls, both as an homage to The Cure (their debut album is called Three Imaginary Boys) and as a nod to who we were: three women attending local live shows and relaying the experience to our readers in a familiar, approachable voice.
We aimed to educate, delight, and elevate our music scene by shining a light into darkened clubs and championing the incredible sounds we heard and community we found.
And elevate it we did.
We soon realized we’d become an integral part of the scene we were documenting. By attending shows with pads and pens in hand, people would get curious. Band members approached us and asked who were we writing for; we’d exchange contact info and links; they’d share the links to our website with…
