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Medium, Meet Three Imaginary Girls
Seattle’s sparkly indie-pop press is now live on Medium!
Dana DuBois
Sep 5, 2023
Summer Writing Prompt for Three Imaginary Girls: Summer Music
Summer Writing Prompt for Three Imaginary Girls: Summer Music
Live shows, favorite summer jams — what music adventures have you been on this summer (or in summers past)?
Dana DuBois
Jun 2
45 Years of Friendship Meets 25 Years of “69 Love Songs”
45 Years of Friendship Meets 25 Years of “69 Love Songs”
I flew to San Francisco and met my best friend for the Magnetic Fields’ two-night show at the Curran Theater.
Dana DuBois
Jul 15
1984: The Week In Top 40 Hits (Week 28: July 14, 1984)
1984: The Week In Top 40 Hits (Week 28: July 14, 1984)
The Jacksons guest on their own comeback single, plus Tina Turner, The Go-Go’s, Paul Young, and Patrice Rushen
Stewart Mason
Jul 15
Pre-Funk Siblings in the Battle of F.O.M.O.
Pre-Funk Siblings in the Battle of F.O.M.O.
The pre-party link between Alicia Bridge’s “I Love the Nightlife” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark”
Korby Sears
Jul 13
Music That Defines Us
Music That Defines Us
Mining for those heart of gold songs
Terry Barr
Jul 10
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 27: July 7, 1984)
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 27: July 7, 1984)
Rod Stewart, Eddy Grant, Ratt, some guy named Van Stephenson, and the band that used to be Martha and the Muffins
Stewart Mason
Jul 8
41 Years Ago: Talking Heads start Speaking In Tongues
41 Years Ago: Talking Heads start Speaking In Tongues
How MTV helped take Lower Manhattan art-funk to the mall
Stewart Mason
Jul 3
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 26: June 30, 1984)
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 26: June 30, 1984)
We hit the halfway point with Elton, Peabo, Tracey Ullman, Talk Talk, and a movie hit whose video confused some folks
Stewart Mason
Jul 1
Stay Tuned: New Indie Pop We Like
Stay Tuned: New Indie Pop We Like
New music from Wojtek the Bear, Richard Hawley, Apollo Ghosts, and a UK trio with a delightfully rude name
Stewart Mason
Jun 29
Fugazi at the PWAC, Long Island ‘95
Fugazi at the PWAC, Long Island ‘95
When music calls from another world
M.J. Flood
Jun 25
How Music Drives Us
How Music Drives Us
Into the night, through the morning hours
Terry Barr
Jun 25
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 25: June 23, 1984)
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 25: June 23, 1984)
Thompson Twins, (old) Michael Jackson, a Sergio Mendes surprise, and how two of my favorite bands fell and rose
Stewart Mason
Jun 24
45 Years Ago: Paul McCartney Heeds the Call of the New Wave… Sorta
45 Years Ago: Paul McCartney Heeds the Call of the New Wave… Sorta
Wings’ flawed but underrated Back To The Egg and how I fixed it for the streaming age
Stewart Mason
Jun 18
Music Genres Are Guides, Not Laws
Music Genres Are Guides, Not Laws
Transgressing the boundaries of what all the “supposed to’s”
Terry Barr
Jun 18
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 24: June 16, 1984)
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 24: June 16, 1984)
Prince becomes a superstar, plus ZZ Top, Newcleus, the theme from Breakin’, and a song I had never heard of before today
Stewart Mason
Jun 17
Morrissey vs. Billy Joel: Who Wrote the Best Line?
Morrissey vs. Billy Joel: Who Wrote the Best Line?
A deep dive into the layers of subtle meaning in song lyrics
Matthew Clapham
Jun 14
When I Screamed My Heart Out at the Dead Milkmen Concert
When I Screamed My Heart Out at the Dead Milkmen Concert
And how a silly punk song made strangers my friends
Maisie Archer
Jun 13
The Slow Implosion of a Frontman in Front of His Biggest Fans
The Slow Implosion of a Frontman in Front of His Biggest Fans
Echo and the Bunnymen, Live at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver BC
Scott-Ryan Abt
Jun 13
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 23: June 9, 1984)
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 23: June 9, 1984)
The Cars, Icicle Works, a solo Bee Gee, Whitney’s first chart hit, and we say goodbye to Footloose at long last
Stewart Mason
Jun 10
Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, Jean Jackets, and Other Forms of Non-Bad-Assery
Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, Jean Jackets, and Other Forms of Non-Bad-...
Being trained in late-80s teenage girl pop music… and surviving
Joe Guay - Dispatches From the Guay Life!
Jun 7
Is “Blackvoice” a Thing in Music? What About “Rockvoice”?
Is “Blackvoice” a Thing in Music? What About “Rockvoice”?
The sliding scale of singers’ inauthentic accents, from plainly unacceptable to simply off-putting
Matthew Clapham
Jun 4
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 22: June 2, 1984)
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 22: June 2, 1984)
Summer kicks off with Bruce, Chicago, Queen, Wang Chung, and a Boston band no one remembers
Stewart Mason
Jun 3
Such a Nice Beastie
Such a Nice Beastie
At age seventeen, I had a brief encounter with Adam Yauch
CD Richardson
May 31
The Joys of Traveling to See All the Shows
The Joys of Traveling to See All the Shows
As good as it gets, really
Scott-Ryan Abt
May 27
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 21: May 26, 1984)
1984: The Year In Top 40 Hits (Week 21: May 26, 1984)
Culture Club ends their Imperial Era, Eurythmics, Billy Idol, Cameo, and why I took Bananarama more seriously than most
Stewart Mason
May 27
Camila Cabello’s Masterclass in Commas
Camila Cabello’s Masterclass in Commas
It’s taken me five years to learn my lesson
Matthew Clapham
May 21
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