Pleased to meet you.

Seattle is a city that gives itself a lot of credit for its music scene. It nurtured the careers of Quincy Jones and Ray Charles. Jimi Hendrix grew up here, and even though Kurt Cobain was from Aberdeen, people all over the world still associate Nirvana and the grunge music of the ’90s with Seattle. Kenny G attended the University of Washington (he majored in accounting), and in our decade Seattle has become an important center for a new genre, indie.

My name is Milo Anderson. I live in Seattle too, and in this blog I hope to give you, the reader, some news and information on some of the important people and places in Seattle’s music industry, told from the point of view of a cynical underdog.

I am a musician who moved here four years ago from Alaska to seek my fortune. I was a music theory and composition major in college before I switched to journalism, and in fact this blog will satisfy a major assignment for one of my reporting classes in this, my last quarter at the UW.

In addition to attending classes full-time, I also play in several bands here in Seattle–you can find their Myspace pages at www.myspace.com/americannight and www.myspace.com/whitehelicopter–and this has put me in touch with a multitude of characters. I have met many other musicians, sound engineers, nightclub owners and bouncers, intellectual property lawyers, agents and people from record companies.

This blog will provide an inside look at the people who make things happen in the music industry here–and the people who are all talk.  I hope this information will be useful to other musicians who, like me, are trying to find success here, but I also hope it will interest music fans who want to know more about how, and why, music is made.