Chris Estey is a Seattle-based writer and has been an Executive Assistant and publicist at two successful independent labels. He has written for The Rocket, The Stranger, Seattle Sound, and other publications. He was the editor-in-chief of Fuelmagazine and BANDOPPLER, and the first in-house publicist for Light In The Attic Records (The Black Angels, The Saturday Knights, Betty Davis, Karen Dalton). He has done PR work for Born Anchors, They Live!, Conrad Ford, and H Is For Hellgate, among many other bands. He has done rock and roll comics with David Lasky (in the anthology "Hotwire" from Fantagraphics), and has also published over two dozen personal zines.

In high iPod rotation:

• Beach House, "Teen Dream"
• The Gourds, "Haymaker!"
• Parenthetical Girls, everything
• Lawrence Arabia, "Chant Darling"
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