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Experience Music Project

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    EMP Announces Five-Day 20th Anniversary Celebration of Nirvana's Nevermind

    ​On September 24, 1991, Nirvana's Nevermind was unleashed upon the world; twenty years later, Experience Music Project has a huge celebration planned to fete the album's anniversary. Nirvana's Nevermind Turns 20 at EMP will run from September 20-25; here's a breakdown of all the action by day ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Pop Kitchen Bar to Open in EMP; Bluebird Expands to Fremont

    Bluebird is expanding to Fremont!​Pop Kitchen Bar will open inside Experience Music Project at 325 Fifth Ave. N. on Friday, July 16, according to Seattle Met. The restaurant will feature an American menu with offerings like bacon-wrapped Kobe dogs and Caesar deviled eggs, as well as a full b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    5 Underage Bands to Watch at Sound Off! 2011

    Ambulance​Sound Off!, the Experience Music Project's battle for bands too young to buy a beer, marks its 10th anniversary this year. Beginning February 12th, 12 bands plucked from a pool of over 100 applicants compete for the title that has jumpstarted the careers of bands such as The Lonely F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    5 Artists We Want the Full Exhibit Treatment For at EMP After Nirvana

    Chappelle's ShowTrue Hollywood Stories - Princewww.comedycentral.comBuy Chappelle's Show DVDsBlack ComedyTrue Hollywood Story Yesterday the folks over at Experience Music Project announced the museum will be getting a brand spanking new exhibit dedicated to the early days of Nirvana. Titled Nirvana: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    Why Doesn't Experience Music Project Have a Nickname?

    ​In a list of the 10 Biggest Design Failures of the Past 25 Years, The Infrastructurist pegged Paul Allen's Experience Music Project as the fourth-worst offender. Saying that "locals" like to call the $100 million dollar Frank Gehry fever-dream "the hemorrhoids." Wait, we do?

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

    New Packaging for the EMP?

    ​In a list of the 10 Biggest Design Failures of the Past 25 Years, The Infrastructurist pegged Paul Allen's Experience Music Project as the fourth-worst offender. Saying that "locals" like to call the $100 million dollar Frank Gehry fever-dream "the hemorrhoids." Wait, we do?

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2008

    Museums, Bass Guitars, Punk Rock & Beer

    ​In a list of the 10 Biggest Design Failures of the Past 25 Years, The Infrastructurist pegged Paul Allen's Experience Music Project as the fourth-worst offender. Saying that "locals" like to call the $100 million dollar Frank Gehry fever-dream "the hemorrhoids." Wait, we do?

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2008

    Why Did We Have to Wait 40 Years for the Hendrix Sex Tape?

    ​In a list of the 10 Biggest Design Failures of the Past 25 Years, The Infrastructurist pegged Paul Allen's Experience Music Project as the fourth-worst offender. Saying that "locals" like to call the $100 million dollar Frank Gehry fever-dream "the hemorrhoids." Wait, we do?

  • Calendar

    January 30, 2008

    Message to Love

    Honoring Hendrix with a glimpse of his famous git

  • Calendar

    September 26, 2007

    Greil Marcus

    One of rock’s last great critics standing

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2007

    A Final Look at EMP's Jimi Hendrix Exhibit

    One of rock’s last great critics standing

  • Food

    August 30, 2006

    Revolution Bar & Grill

    Listen to crunk and knock back Robitussin (half off!) at the Experience Music Project's restaurant.

  • Arts

    April 12, 2006

    Seeing 'Double'

    Paul Allen's rarefied art project breaks with traditional gallery experience.

  • Arts

    January 4, 2006

    Silent Movies, Elvis Invitationals, and Painter James Martin

    Paul Allen's rarefied art project breaks with traditional gallery experience.

  • Music

    December 7, 2005

    The Expensive Expansion of KEXP

    It's globally popular and flush with donations, but Seattle's seminal eclectic-music radio station is under financial strain that is affecting morale.

  • Arts

    November 30, 2005

    Experience Art Project

    It's globally popular and flush with donations, but Seattle's seminal eclectic-music radio station is under financial strain that is affecting morale.

  • Music

    August 17, 2005

    Venue Guide

    It's globally popular and flush with donations, but Seattle's seminal eclectic-music radio station is under financial strain that is affecting morale.

  • Music

    May 4, 2005

    Thinking About Rockism

    It's globally popular and flush with donations, but Seattle's seminal eclectic-music radio station is under financial strain that is affecting morale.

  • Music

    April 13, 2005

    A Pop Conference Top 10

    It's globally popular and flush with donations, but Seattle's seminal eclectic-music radio station is under financial strain that is affecting morale.

  • Music

    April 13, 2005

    Yakety Yak

    Talking with EMP Pop Conference presenter Robert Christgau.

  • Diversions

    December 8, 2004

    A Chorus Line

    Music books whose strength is in their variety.

  • Music

    August 11, 2004

    Family Therapy

    EMP's Family Concert Series gives a new meaning to all-ages shows.

  • Music

    October 8, 2003

    Living the Blues

    EMP's new exhibit examines the Delta-Chicago connection.

  • Music

    June 25, 2003

    Voodoo Childhood

    Re-experiencing the young Hendrix at EMP.

  • News

    April 30, 2003

    Paul Allen and the Monorail

    Will elevated trains run through Seattle Center to please a major developer?

  • Music

    April 9, 2003

    Stir It Up

    Critics, Academics, Musicians, and Writers Come together at EMPs second annual Pop Music Studies Conference.

  • Arts

    September 4, 2002

    Fall Arts— Film

    Five picks for fall

  • Music

    May 1, 2002

    Everlasting pieces

    The odds and ends of music superstars hit the EMP.

  • Music

    January 30, 2002

    Bigger is better

    The LP Show Goes Round Again

  • Music

    December 26, 2001

    3. Things stay the same

    No news is good news for KEXP.

  • Film

    August 29, 2001

    You can get it

    Caribbean manifesto still carries an irresistible beat.

  • Music

    August 15, 2001

    Days of our nights

    Caribbean manifesto still carries an irresistible beat.

  • News

    June 27, 2001

    News Clips— Pressing/Depressing

    Caribbean manifesto still carries an irresistible beat.

  • Music

    June 13, 2001

    Revisionist reggae?

    EMP's latest exhibit downplays Bob Marley's role as it celebrates Jamaica's music.

  • Music

    May 2, 2001

    Days of our nights

    EMP's latest exhibit downplays Bob Marley's role as it celebrates Jamaica's music.

  • News

    April 4, 2001

    New experience

    KCMU becomes KEXP as a university-run station partners with Paul Allen's rock museum.

  • Music

    November 22, 2000

    Up from the skies

    Thirty years after his death, EMP explores Jimi Hendrix's innovations.

  • News

    October 25, 2000

    The Top 50 Haunts (cont.)

    Thirty years after his death, EMP explores Jimi Hendrix's innovations.

  • Food

    August 30, 2000

    Music to your mouth

    Groovin' to EMP's gustatory offerings.

  • News

    July 19, 2000
  • Music

    June 28, 2000
  • Music

    June 28, 2000

    We have liftoff

    EMP opens with monster shows at Seattle Center.

  • Music

    June 21, 2000

    Festive weekend

    EMP lures MTV to Seattle Center, while improv musicians whip up a lotta noise without much ado.

  • News

    June 21, 2000

    "It is so typical of this state's government to not do a damn thing about a law that was voted on and passed by the people of Washington."

    EMP lures MTV to Seattle Center, while improv musicians whip up a lotta noise without much ado.

  • Diversions

    June 21, 2000

    DUMP: The Alternative to EMP

    EMP lures MTV to Seattle Center, while improv musicians whip up a lotta noise without much ado.

  • Music

    June 14, 2000

    EMP's first big party; Metallica's big payday.

    EMP lures MTV to Seattle Center, while improv musicians whip up a lotta noise without much ado.

  • Music

    June 14, 2000

    e.m.p. (What is it?)

    Everybody's talking about Seattle's new rock 'n' roll museum, but is it an eyesore or a triumph?

  • News

    July 7, 1999

    Is Experience necessary?

    Paul Allen's latest hire chills the arts community.

  • Arts

    May 20, 1998

    What, no vinyl siding?

    Paul Allen's latest hire chills the arts community.

  • News

    February 18, 1998

    Experience This!

    As Paul Allen and Jody Patton's mulitimedia museum at Seattle Center takes shape, a design is emerging that may define the architecture of the next millenium.

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