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Seattle Office of Film + Music
The Seattle Office of Film + Music is James Keblas, Rachel White, Casey Moore and Jill Bletz. The office is housed in Economic Development and is devoted to promoting and advancing Seattle's film and music industries. The Seattle Office of Film + Music is a streamlined resource center for the city's film and music needs. We permit film production, provide business assistance to music venues, coordinate special projects, develop incentives and offer professional business development opportunities, making this vibrant city the perfect background for film or music production.
John Richards
In addition to hosting and producing the 90.3 FM KEXP Morning Show, John Richards is also the Associate Program Director of KEXP and producer and host of KEXP's Local Music Show Audioasis and community outreach programs. John is co-founder and co-president of Loveless Records and does A&R for Gary Gersh's new music collective known as The TAO Organization. John also does music consulting and contributes to NPR and Seattle Sound magazine. John is married not only to his work but also his wife Tiffany and they are the proud father of a future musical prodigy named Arlie Richards.
Peter Blecha
Peter Blecha's activities involving Northwest music and its history have inspired the media to dub him: “Seattle’s Curator of Rock & Roll” and “the premier expert in his chosen field of research” (Seattle Weekly, 1988), “the longtime unofficial historian of Northwest rock” (Everett Herald, 1990), and “the leading expert on Northwest music” (Vintage Guitar, 2000). As Senior Curator for the Experience Music Project (EMP), Blecha led the museum's Collections Development efforts collecting nearly 150,000 music artifacts including nearly every existing local music video and among the major exhibits he curated was the local history, Northwest Passage gallery. His wild adventures while scouring the globe for rarities even saw him described as the “Indiana Jones of Rock ‘n’ Roll” (The Rocket, 2000). Blecha's writings have been published by the Seattle Times, DISCoveries, and Life magazine and have appeared as liner notes for many local bands' LPs & CDs. He has authored Wired Wood: The Origins of the Electric Guitar (1997), Taboo Tunes: The History of Banned Bands & Censored Songs (2004), Rock & Roll Archaeologist (2005), Music In Washington: Seattle and Beyond (2007), the forthcoming book, SONIC BOOM! The History of Northwest Rock (2008) -- and Blecha currently serves as Contributing Editor (Music & Pop Culture) with the Northwest’s regional history web-site, HistoryLink.org
Blecha's HistoryLink essays
Music in Washington: Seattle and Beyond by Peter Blecha
The SEATTLE CHANNEL's effort to identify the Best NW Music Videos of All Time will be assisted by a panel of knowledgeable experts -- local historians, producers, deejays and other music biz folks. Panelist will share their favorites--be sure and check back every few weeks to see who's added their list!
Nominate the best (and/or the worst!) NW music video right now!
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Best NW Music Videos Expert Bios