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Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction

Memories of the Sasquatch! Music Festival

June 12, 2014 by Scott Timberg

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TODAY I am going to take a break from spreading bad news about the world of culture to offer some photographs of rock and hip-hop musicians.

Johanna Soderberg (hat), Klara Soderberg (stylish bangs)

First Aid Kit

These shots are by Steven Dewall, an old colleague and friend, and former resident of Seattle, who travels back every year for the Sasquatch! festival and photographs a huge range of bands alongside the Columbia River Gorge. (For what it’s worth,while Steve’s first commitment is to photography, he’s also a serious music fan of long standing, and plays drums in the indie-rock group I run out of my garage.)

Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan WIlson

WA - MAY 25: Brody Draille poses for a portrait backstage at the Gorge Amphitheater on May 23, 2014 in George, Washington. (Photo by Steven Dewall)

Brody Dalle

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Alisa Xayalith of The Naked & Famous

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Foy Vance

Del La Soul

De La Soul

If you’d like to see more work by Steven Dewall, music oriented or otherwise, check out his site here.

CultureCrash is hoping to be able to offer the usual run of bad news tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: indie, music, Pacific Northwest, photography

Scott Timberg

I'm a longtime culture writer and editor based in Los Angeles; my book "CULTURE CRASH: The Killing of the Creative Class" came out in 2015. My stories have appeared in The New York Times, Salon and Los Angeles magazine, and I was an LA Times staff writer for six years. I'm also an enthusiastic if middling jazz and indie-rock guitarist. (Photo by Sara Scribner) Read More…

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My book came out in 2015, and won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award. The New Yorker called it "a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature of art in modern life"

I urge you to buy it at your favorite independent bookstore or order it from Portland's Powell's.

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Here is some information on my book, which Yale University Press published in 2015. (Buy it from Powell's, here.) Some advance praise: With coolness and equanimity, Scott Timberg tells what in less-skilled hands could have been an overwrought horror story: the end of culture as we have known … [Read More...]

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