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Contents OCTOBER 2015 Vol. 18 # 8 THE GOODS 4 Le Beat: Who’s who and what’s happening locally 11 Rock ‘n’ Roll Moment of the month 12 11 Questions: Jan Peters 20 Calendar 32 Monthly Pin-Up: Moongrass 34 Tales from the Road: Minor Plains 35 Stuff Yer Face: Hotpoint Tea & Express SPOTLIGHTS 6 Scotty Sensei: New dimensions 7 Panda Panda Panda: 1, 2, 3, GO 8 Zion I: The resurgence 9 Crushed out: Music and marriage FEATURES 14 Katie Johnson: The face of expression 15 I Found My Friends: The Oral History of Nirvana 16 Mark Pickerel and His Helping Hands: Still screaming 18 Beats Antique: Melding performance, music and art REVIEWS NEXT ISSUE: NOV. 2015 10 Live Shows DEADLINE: Oct. 19 25 Recordings 360.398.1155 • P.O. Box 30373, Bellingham, WA 98228 www.whatsup-magazine.com • [email protected] CO-PUBLISHER/EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Brent Cole CO-PUBLISHER/DESIGN DIRECTOR: Becca Schwarz Cole CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Tommy Calderon, Jared Curtis, Thea Hart, Adam Walker, Mark Broyles, Jackson Main, Hayden Eller, Charlie Walentiny, Halee Hastad, Keenan Ketzner, Raleigh Davis, Aaron Apple, Aaron Kayser CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: Tommy Calderon, David Johnson, Sarah Day, Ryan Russell, Aaron Brick AD SALES: Brent Cole, Victor Gotelaere DISTRIBUTION: David Johnson, Brent Cole COVER ARTIST: Katie Johnson WEB GENIUS: Django @ Seatthole SUPPORT: Harrison, Ruby, Autumn, Lulu What’s Up! is a free, independent monthly music magazine covering the Bellingham/Whatcom County scene, and is locally owned and operated by Brent Cole and Becca Schwarz Cole. What’s Up! is a member of Sustainable Connections, and a sister publication of Grow Northwest. Please take only one copy per person. Copies are circulated in Whatcom County. All content © 1998-2015 and may not be reproduced without the consent of the publisher. Deadline for submissions is the 20th of each month for the following month’s issue. E-mail information to editor @whatsup-magazine.com or call (360) 398-1155. All opinions expressed in What’s Up! are the opinions of the individuals expressing them and not necessarily the opinions of What’s Up! Back issues are available for $1 per copy. Archives are available online at www.whatsup-magazine.com. October 2015 • What’s Up! • TABLE OF CONTENTS • 3 4 • What’s Up! • October 2015 Le Beat short but sweet. Clocking in at around nia, Oregon, Arizona, Utah, Colorado Let’s all give a Bellingham welcome to shortly. It sounds like we are in for a 15 minutes it encapsulates Fallopia and more! The tour kicks off Oct. 2 at Ryan Adam Winget! Woohoo!!! Won’t treat this Halloween! Local notes on what’s happen- perfectly: it’s fast, loud, aggressive, and Northern Pacific Coffee Company in be long now till we have BoomBox Kid We have a ton of hauntingly awe- backed with a message of empower- Tacoma, featuring music from The Cot- Jr. playing around town. some shows going on Oct. 31. First off ing with musicians, events ment. It’s available for download for a tonwood Cutups and Shotgun Kitchen Also celebrating the birth of a little we have a night of tricks down at The and more. Have something to modest fee on the band’s bandcamp. as well. one, congratulations are in order for Swillery featuring the much-awaited share? Send your info to editor@ Local Bellingham noise-maestro I Will Fight with Lions is attempting Sam Carlton (mentioned above) and return of Eagle Teeth. The Eagle boys have been absent from Bellingham whatsup-magazine.com. Keenan Ketzner is set to release two to raise some funds so they can replace his wife Mariah Kelmis welcomed new albums this month under one his their stolen gear, grabbed earlier this Eleanor Mae into the world on Sept. 22. for quite some time and we are very many monikers, Thomas Agora. In his year. You can find them on gofundme. Love it when music families grow! excited to have them back to give us all ello, Bellingham! Raleigh Davis own words these two albums are set to Please help them buy some gear and some dance rock to shake our jack-o- here for another rousing edition “venture deep into a wild forest of self- get back to rocking. I really dig these lanterns to. Cat Bomb and Second Hand Hof Le Beat! Fall has snuck up on help tapes and bible records.” Keep it on guys and they really got hosed on this SHOWS Suits will be joining them. us… it’s already October!!! Where did your radar by following the happenings scene. Down at the Green Frog we have a the time go? As the weather cools rest on Thomas Agora’s facebook page! Will Glazier is a busy, busy man! He’s We have some absolutely amazing Baby Cakes Halloween to look forward assured that the Bellingham scene is Local grind legends Dad Jazz have heading out on tour with Michael Men- shows coming up this month!!! to! It’s only Baby Cakes on the bill so only starting to heat up. We have a ton released a new album. Torture Your ert and the Pretty Fantastics as well as Sir Mix-A-Lot returns to the Wild expect a night full of some of the best of amazing happenings this month so Ghost just came out at the end of opening up for them on a six-week tour. Buffalo, for the Buff’s Anniversary Show funk Bellingham has to offer… Seriously let’s dive right in! last month and is filled with gleefully AS IF THAT ISN’T ENOUGH, Will is on on Oct. 1! these guys and lady know their stuff! abrasive chaos that is sure to make Michael’s new album and Willdabeast On Oct. 2, The Shakedown will be The fun kicks off at 9:30 and tickets are your eyes and ears bleed. Grindcore will be releasing new music in October hosting the amazingly talented Chelsea $10 in advance and $15 at the door. RECORDING & RELEASES and music like it can be a little under as well (you can look for a feature on Wolfe and Mammifer (featuring We have the all-mighty Polecat represented in Bellingham but Dad Jazz Will in the next issue). Career in music = Faith Coloccia and Aaron Turner). The bringing the 90s back from the grave Apartment Kids have released a are steadfast in keeping the torch lit good livin’. Sergeant House-signed artist Chelsea at the Wild Buffalo. The evening will new album! It’s been two years since as beacon for crazy intense music. The Though The Ames are no more you Wolfe just recently released a new feature music and characters from we’ve had new music from the master- CD is available as a hard copy through can expect some new music from one album titled Abyss that is absolutely everyone’s favorite 90’s TV shows such ful mind of Peter Hilleary but now we the band as well as for download on of their members soon! Word’s going amazing. Beautifully dark and haunting, as Friends, The Simpsons and Seinfeld. can satiate our appetites once again bandcamp. Word on the street is that around that Samuel Carlton (the jack industrial and catchy all at the same Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 with Shapes In Rapid. The 10-track they may have a Bellingham Sound- of all trades who handled piano, banjo, time… It’s sure to make an amazing live at the door, which open at 9! Polecat album features a wide array of sounds check coming out soon so keep your guitar, harmonica, kazoo and vocals show. Tickets are $13 in advanced and knows how to throw a Halloween party going from light and airy tapping ala eyes peeled! in the band) is hard at work on a solo $15 at the door, music starts at 10. so get your tickets in advance! Rooftops to acoustic, post-rock, indie We have a new black/death metal project that we should hopefully be The Buff is going to host the Let It Over at the Honey Moon, it’s the and much more. This giant melting pot band on the horizon and boy do they able to hear from soon. Rumor has it Bern: A Benefit For Bernie Sanders’ Presi- 4th Annual Dead Musicians Halloween of pleasant sounds is not to be missed. have some chops. Allura’Taq is their that the project will be in a similar vein dential Campaign on Oct. 8, featuring Party. Those interested in playing a song Check it out on the band’s bandcamp. name and features members Bobby to The Ames albeit a more “stripped lots of local talent. Midnight Legend, or performing a poem by their favorite The new Wild Throne is out this Savage and Jeff Kastelic. They just down” version. Keep your ears to the The Naughty Blokes (last year’s Road dead celebrity, please contact Kat Bula month! It’s no secret that we are huge released their debut album Unearthly ground for new music and shows in the to Rockstar winners) and Ebb, Sack and at [email protected] fans of the Throne guys over here, and Inversion and I can say with utmost near future! Flow will be performing with Reanu to sign up. As was said in the picks of after hearing a stream of their new confidence that it absolutely slays. Blast- Keeves and the Funky Falcons (with the month, it’s one of the highlights of album I must say I feel pretty proud to beat chaos with the perfect amount members of the now extinct band Top- Halloween.