Musician, Writer, and Sunyata Records founder Barrett Martin is now writing a music blog for The Huffington Post. His writing will focus on music, culture, and the people he works with around the world. You can read his first few essays here at The Huffington Post.

Between the winter and summer months of 1998-99, Seattle band Screaming Trees recorded their last batch of songs before disbanding in June of 2000. Those final sessions, produced by Trees drummer Barrett Martin, feature guest appearances by REM’s Peter Buck and QOTSA/Trees guitarist Josh Homme. The album was recently mixed by the band’s longtime friend, Jack Endino, and was released on Barrett’s label, Sunyata Records. The album can be heard in full streaming audio by clinking on the Sunyata Records link. You can purchase the digipak CD there, and there is also a link to I-Tunes if you would like to download the album. Read more “The Final Screaming Trees Album “Last Words” Now Available On Cd Or Digital Download” →

The music exhibit “Taking Punk To The Masses”, of which Barrett Martin is one of the narrators, has officially opened in Seattle at the EMP Museum and there is even a book with a DVD that tells the story directly with the words of America’s first wave of punk, alternative, and grunge musicians. Here is a link to the trailer which has comments from Greg Ginn of Black Flag, Krist Novoselic of Nirvana, as well as many others. Barrett’s interview is near the end of the clip. Watch it here.

The PBS short documentary about Barrett’s drumming and Zen painting titled, “Zenga And The Art Of Percussion”, has won a 2009 Emmy in the New Media Arts category. Produced by director Deborah Wakshull, the short clip can be viewed here.