Breaking up is hard to do, especially if the party being rejected is as persuasive as Mark Pickerel in "Let Me Down Easy." Not a plea so much as a last seduction — a request for "a long fadeout of my ...

In order to take another shot at making music, Mark Pickerel decided he could no longer sell it. So last year, Pickerel closed the doors on an Ellensburg, Wash., institution: Rodeo Records, the Main ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- I’ve known Mark Pickerel longer than I’ve known anyone else in Washington state. I met him in 2001 when I flew out from Michigan to interview for a couple of jobs — one as a sports ...

Normally you have to buy a ticket or pay a cover if you want to see Mark Pickerel or Star Anna, especially if they’re on the same bill. But this is a hometown singer-songwriters showcase at the local ...

Featuring original Soundgarden bassist Hiro Yamamoto and ex-Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel, '90s Seattle band Truly was primarily driven by singer/guitarist Robert Roth and together they ...

Singer/songwriter Mark Pickerel was the original drummer in Seattle grunge band Screaming Trees and is among the 70+ local bands playing SW’s Reverb Festival on Oct. 8. Pickerel plays Conor Byrne at 7 ...

While most anglers are currently pursuing striped bass up to 50 pounds, sea bass up to 11 pounds, scup, flounder, and bluefish at the coast, a good number of freshwater anglers are reveling in the ...

Those who remember the glory days of grunge might recall Mark Pickerel as the drummer for Screaming Trees. He’s traded (in part) his drum kit for guitar and lead microphone, and signed with Bloodshot, ...

Today, he might be wearing a pompadour hairdo. Do not be deceived. Murky goth is likelier to come from him than rockabilly. So are echoes of Hank Williams, or 13th Floor Elevators, or the Sugarhill ...