Seattle Growth Podcast reaches 100,000 downloads
It started as a simple curiosity. Having watched Seattle transform so dramatically in the decade since moving here, Jeff Shulman, the Marion B. Ingersoll Professor... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 4.11: Building Seattle’s future through music
How will music shape Seattle’s future? Episode 11 of the Seattle Growth Podcast, Season 4, takes up the topic with two successful musicians whose careers... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 4.10: The future of legendary music venues
Seattle’s white-hot real estate market has struck the death knell for a litany of old institutions. Some of the city’s most legendary music venues can look... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 4.9: Changing lives through music
“Music is incredibly powerful,” says Levi Ware, an accomplished songwriter and one of several Seattle musicians working to harness that power for a better future... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 4.8: The evolution of musical theater
Over the past two decades, nine of the 18 original musicals developed at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre have gone on to Broadway runs, including the Tony... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 4.7: A new wave of musicians arrives
The last episode of the Seattle Growth Podcast profiled some of Seattle’s musicians being pushed out by the city’s economic boom. But there are plenty... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 4.6: The musicians lost in the boom
Trying to make it as an artist in a booming economy is more difficult than you might think. Episode 6 of the Seattle Growth Podcast,... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 4.4: Growth and hip-hop
How is Seattle’s transformation affecting the artists in its renowned music scene? In episode 4 of the Seattle Growth Podcast, season 4, two local hip-hop... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 4.3: Hendrix to hip-hop
What can Seattle’s rich musical past tell us about the future sounds that will emanate from our transforming city? In episode 3 of the Seattle... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 4.2: Footnotes of flannel
In the early 1990s, Seattle transformed from a quiet outpost in the soggy Northwest into an international music mecca on the crunching riffs of megabands... Read More