Issue 10 Music
Music for our Fall 2011 issue:
Debbie Miller
Seattle, WA
www.thedebbiemiller.com
Seattle-based singer/songwriter Debbie Miller will tug at your heart, cause you giggle, and make you think twice about crossing her – sometimes all during the same song. Blending humor with heart-wrenching honesty, Miller’s unique lyrics and playful melodies capture and delight audiences from coast to coast. Her debut album, Fake Love (2010), was chosen as a Staff Pick on CDBaby.com, and as a 2010 non-jazz favorite on AllAboutJazz.com.
A New York native, Miller got her start in Brooklyn and the East Village in 2008, and was labeled “New York’s best kept secret” by ResidentMediaPundit after the release of Fake Love. Her music, though hard to classify into a single genre, oscillates flawlessly back and forth between folkish tunes on guitar and pounding numbers on the piano (Miller is a classically trained pianist). Song topics range from love to bathroom graffiti.
“Balancing playful innocence and savage truth is a feat few artists can pull off, but Debbie makes it seem easy…whether she is making me smile with a light-hearted song or battering down my defenses with her brave honesty” – Local Correspondents
Debbie is currently recording an EP which will be released in 2012.
Tippy Toe
Kindly Remove
I Rise
Grynch
Seattle, WA
www.getgrynch.com
Grynch – MC
DJ Nphared – DJ
After a string of EPs (2008′s Something More, 2009′s Chemistry and 2011′s Timeless), Seattle MC Grynch is currently working on his currently untitled next full-length effort which will be a follow-up to his last LP, 2008′s My Second Wind, with the first single from that release being the Jake One-produced “Mister Rogers.” Grynch has shared stages with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Nas, Warren G, Macklemore and Blue Scholars and has performed at various festivals in the past including SXSW, Bumbershoot and the Capitol Hill Block Party.
All I Wanna Do
My Volvo
Mister Rogers
Mike Park
Seattle, WA
www.mikeparkmusic.com
Mike Park is the owner of Asian Man Records, Ex-saxophonist from Skankin’ Pickle, lead singer for The Chinkees & The Bruce Lee Band and founder of the Plea For Peace Foundation. His songs often carry a political message and discuss racism and prejudice.
Wigily Wigily Worm
I Love To Play My Saxaphone
Crowd (Operation Ivy cover)