Mark Baumgarten
Mark Baumgarten served as executive editor of City Arts from 2009 to February 2011 before becoming the magazine's editor-at-large from February 2011 through March 2013. Mark previously worked for a long list of publications, including the late Sound magazine, Willamette Week in Portland, Twin Cities Metropolitan and Lost Cause magazine, the ill-fated local-music publication he founded while working as a banquet captain at a Minneapolis hotel. He is currently editor-in-chief at Seattle Weekly. Mark is also the author of Love Rock Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music, which was published by Sasquatch Books in July 2012.
Recent Articles
Q&A with MC Type: It Takes a Village
The MC Type believes that rapper-packed, hometown-repping collaborations are destroying hip-hop. He made his own to prove it.
“This’ll unify the scene, this’ll put...
Attractive Singles: April 2013
Zac Pennington of Parenthetic Girls
OVER AND UNDERGROUND Grave Babies The bass line alone from this post-punk track warrants recognition. Like a transmission...
Ships in the Night
Under the cover of night, artist Kyler Martz stencils one of his whale boats for a mural at The Whale Wins in Wallingford. When he finishes, a fleet of five ships...
PONCHO Takes a Bow
Tasked with planning a proper celebration to mark 50 years of giving millions of dollars to Seattle arts, the board of directors for the Patrons of Northwest Civic...
Attractive Singles, March 2013
Five can't-miss tracks from the PNW
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Blackjack, Back Tats & the Jackson 5
All is revealed when Lemolo has a chat with itself.
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Holy Diver
Deep Sea Diver’s Jessica Dobson is a dominant, in-demand guitarist. But something else is at the heart of her music.
Deep Sea Diver capped its unlikely rise in...
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