How to Play to an Empty Room

                                     [By Kat Downs, Piano Destroyer - Originally Published on her personal blog at KatDowns.com and on Pyragraph ] It happens more often than you might think.  Especially when you’re playing in a brand new city.  Maybe they didn’t [...]

Wolf Blanket

                                     [By Kat Downs, Piano Destroyer] We originally bought Wolf Blanket at a Walmart in Oregon, I think.  Or was it Washington?  No, I think we were still in Oregon. Anyway. Our air mattress had died, so we stopped to [...]

Falken

                                     [By Guest Blogger, Stephen Falken] Writing is a gift in the best of times, and harder in the worst of times. When things are bad, attention spans are shorter; everyone wants a quick way out of Now. [...]

Funny Things

                                     [By Guest Blogger, Kyna Wise, Lead Singer of The Go Ahead] Trust is a funny thing.  For purposes of this blog, I'm going to mark "trust" a synonym of "respect" and furthermore "love".  It is my belief [...]

The Story Behind “Raven”

                                     [By Kat Downs, Piano Destroyer] If you’ve been at any of the Sit Kitty Sit live shows, there’s a chance you’ve heard this one already. Once upon a time, I was in Alaska.  Some friends of mine [...]

Getting Into Vans with Strangers

                                     [By Guest Blogger, Megan McDonald] So. I was an English major in college, graduating from Oregon State University in 2010, and the day after graduating, moving to Portland, Oregon (I am from Oregon, so I don’t want [...]

The Big Nasty

                                     [By Mike Thompson, Drums of Thunder] I enjoy reading about peoples rise to stardom, but only to a point.  The stories are pretty similar.  They’re cruising along working hard and then they meet that one person and [...]

Sometimes Life Happens

                                     [By Guest Blogger, Valorie Tyler]   Sometimes life happens, and sometimes it picks you up and places you in the center of something you never saw coming, but never, absolutely never want to stop. -Tyler Knott Gregson I [...]

Least Favorite

                                      [By: Kat Downs - Piano Destroyer] A very common question we get asked a lot in interviews is “what is your most favorite and least favorite parts of being a professional musician” My most favorite?  Live shows. [...]