Music

Collection contains materials related to Seattle’s Gothic-Industrial music and arts counterculture, including artwork, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and issues of local alternative periodical publications. The collection also includes materials related to the real-life superhero movement in Seattle.

The collection is a binder of photographs, news clippings, correspondence and promotional materials about Lip Sinc International, Incorporated, a lip-synching competition hosted in Seattle and Houston in the 1980s. Participants dressed up as famous celebrities, sometimes in drag, and impersonated their songs. Lip Sinc International, Incorporated was a plaintiff against Dick Clark Productions and used the material in the binder as evidence in the case.

Collection includes ephemera, photographs, sound recordings, published articles, and obituaries related to the life and career of Jonathan Moore, who was an influential figure in the Northwest hip hop scene from 1989 to 2017.

Photographs of performers who visited the New Orleans Club, a nightclub and restaurant located near Renton, Washington during the 1940s and 1950s.

The Seattle grunge collection contains local and national newspaper clippings, magazine articles, fanclub newsletters, and other printed ephemera from 1989 through 2005 that focus on Seattle’s grunge music and musicians, concerts, record labels, recording studios, and music festivals.