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29 October 2025

  • 22:0922:09, 29 October 2025 Venice Magazine (October 1996) (hist | edit) [2,580 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Kristen Barry == "I had my first band when I was 15, and I've been trying to make a record since then," says the very charming Kristen Barry. Now 26, the Seattle resident has finally gotten the chance to make her dream come true with her debut release, ''The Beginning. The Middle. The End.'' Listening to Barry's blistering "alternarock" rants, which blend the hooks of Juliana Hatfield with the smoldering anger of unheralded Casey Scott (the artist Barry is most r...")

28 October 2025

  • 20:0620:06, 28 October 2025 Press Release 1996 (hist | edit) [1,585 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== KRISTEN BARRY == Singer, songwriter, guitarist and arranger, Kristen Barry was first heard on 1996's Home Alive project. Now with ''The Beginning, The Middle, The End'', her debut album, Kristen gets to tell the full story. Born January 1970, Barry began playing piano at age five, and for years wanted to be a classical pianist. Music took a back seat for several years, following the death of her teacher/mentor, but at 12 she became interested in rock music and s...")

21 October 2025

20 October 2025

  • 23:0223:02, 20 October 2025 1990-08-01 (hist | edit) [479 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{infobox shows | date = August 1, 1990 | venue = The Central Tavern | location = Seattle, WA | lineup = Kristen Barry<br>??? | bands = Kristen Barry, Capping Day, Green Pajamas }} == Setlist == (unknown) == Recording Info == None == Media == ... == Notes == ...")

19 October 2025

15 October 2025

  • 00:4000:40, 15 October 2025 SLUG Magazine (December 1996) (hist | edit) [971 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Kristen Barry == I know, I know. Chris Bellow is playing on her album. The Presidents Of The United States of America aren't hip anymore. Since I was into the band when they recorded for Popllama their new found megastar status doesn't bother me. Since I had listened to Kristen Barry before the radio began playing "Created" her status as a rising star doesn't bother me either. Since I've actually met her and spent some time on the phone with her, I know that th...")
  • 00:3000:30, 15 October 2025 The Daily Utah Chronicle (September 1996) (hist | edit) [2,672 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Smile for the Nice Music Critic Scum by Shan Fowler Alanis has left the building. Well, not exactly. But now that the excitement over everybody's favorite 11-million-record-selling hosebad has died down, music fans are starting to see both the upside and the downside of a wildly successful "alternative" female artist. The downside is obvious: about a zillion other female performers are emulating Alanis Morrisette. The upside is the few sincere remale musicians who don...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 00:2800:28, 15 October 2025 The Daily Utah Chronicle (September 1996) review (hist | edit) [1,139 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "KRISTEN BARRY The Beginning. The Middle. The End. (Virgin) 7 Looking through the smokeless room in the Dead Goat Saloon at the (disarmingly beautiful) Kristen Barry was easy; peering through the free posters, free CDs, free stickers, free beer and free appetizers to hear Barry objectively wasn't easy. However, Barry's CD The Beginning. The Middle. The End, is easy to be objective about. It's plastic; It fits in the player; and It makes the speakers move. It's "okay."...") Tag: Visual edit

13 October 2025

  • 21:4421:44, 13 October 2025 Musician Magazine (December 1996) (hist | edit) [2,116 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== KRISTEN BARRY == ''by Chris Smets'' It's a familiar story: Female piano prodigy grows up to sell her soul to rock 'n' rock. But Seattle-bred singer/songwriter Kristen Barry mostly ditches her early lessons for the sweet sins of the electric guitar, an instrument she taught herself to play only four years ago. "I didn't take lessons," Barry says. "Purposely. Piano had already become this monkey on my back, because I wanted to be better at it than I was. With guitar,...")

8 October 2025

  • 13:4113:41, 8 October 2025 Billboard (August 1996) (hist | edit) [532 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== KRISTEN BARRY - Created (4:07) == PRODUCER: The Robb Brothers<br> WRITER: K. Barry<br> PUBLISHERS: EMI Virgin Music Inc. /Luleil Music, ASCAP Virgin 11548 Barry's tremendous vocal track makes what could have been a slightly above-average single a standout for the artist. Though "Created" may be simple, hooky, alternapop, Barry's voice is a powerful and attractive instrument that makes a strong argument for playing this track. Lyrics help nail down the performanc...")

7 October 2025

  • 18:5318:53, 7 October 2025 Gavin Magazine (July 1996) (hist | edit) [1,029 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== KRISTEN BARRY == The term singer-songwriter usually conjures up images of a musician playing acoustic guitar in a coffee house. Not so with Kristen Barry, who appears to be cut more from the classic, electric guitar wielding cloth that drapes Neil Young than from that of latte sippin' troubadours. Barry's Virgin debut, The Beginning the Middle the End, is brimming with six-string driven minimalism that works as a showcase for her strong vocals. Scathing, ragged guit...")
  • 18:4218:42, 7 October 2025 Cash Box (September 1996) (hist | edit) [696 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== KRISTEN BARRY: "Created" == Kristen Barry's off-center, tough approach to her material puts her in the netherworld between, say, Tori Amos and Hole, a musically inventive sound with a definite point of view. "Created" is a syncopated rock track with big, soaring, hard-edged vocals that’s currently getting worked to modem rock radio, and has already gotten adds, including N.Y.'s WNEW-FM. Chris Ballew of Presidents of the United States of America plays bass on Barry...")
  • 14:4214:42, 7 October 2025 The Rocket (June 1989) (hist | edit) [404 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== KRISTEN BARRY == ex-First Thought keyboardist has a particularly fine offering. It would be great to hear full renditions of these tunes; bass, guitar, and keyboards could provide just the edge this material needs. As it is the MIDI-to-four-track recording tends to lose the vocals deep in the mix, making things a bit ethereal.")

5 October 2025

  • 14:5514:55, 5 October 2025 1990 Demo Tape (hist | edit) [1,153 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An early demo tape. Full details aren't completely known. == Tracklisting == * Cannot Take My Pride * Won't Get the Best of Me * (2 other songs) == Personnel == (a guess based on band lineup at the time) Vocals, Keyboards - Kristen Barry Guitar - Tommy Martin Guitar - Jim Tillman Bass - Al Tompkins Keyboards - Tyler Stone Drums - Chris Friel Backing Vocals - Krisha Augerot == Notes == 4 track demo tape recorded 1990, sent to labels and not commercially...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 14:4314:43, 5 October 2025 City Heat Magazine (June 1990) (hist | edit) [5,734 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== KRISTEN BERRY == ''by Jeff Lageson'' Some performers defy simple classification. They refuse to allow themselves to be packaged oh so neat and tidy into a convenient category. Marketing people don't know what to do, clubs don't know who to bill them with for shows, and they simply don't fit in to radio station formats. Kristen Barry is that type of performer. And she's that type of person as well. After seeing her perform last spring at the Central and having liste...")

4 October 2025

  • 15:5415:54, 4 October 2025 Press & Sun-Bulletin (November 1996) (hist | edit) [2,220 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "(it's a combined review of Kristen's album and Veiled by Leah Andreone) '''Kristen Barry, ''The Beginning, the Middle, the End'' (Virgin).<br> '''Leah Andreone, ''Veiled'' (RCA).'''''' Art, faction, music, and literature, to name a few, are all characterized by the notion that the really out-there stuff serves to pave the way for watered-down, more accessible versions of themselves. The pioneers often receive little or late recognition, which is unfortunate, but it see...")
  • 15:3215:32, 4 October 2025 LA Weekly (December 1996) (hist | edit) [1,133 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Kristen Barry at the Opium Den == ''by Libby Molyneaux'' Trained as a classical pianist, Kristen Barry could have become another Tori Amos (just what we need). Lucky for us, she chose the guitar-based-rocker route. Her debut record, The Beginning. The Middle. The End, is one of those rare surprises that, on first listen, sounds familiar yet new. Barry's Everywoman demons (dickhead boyfriends, self-blame, regret) are spewed not with venom but sung in her relaxed, assu...")

3 October 2025

2 October 2025

  • 20:5420:54, 2 October 2025 The Rocket (April 1988) (hist | edit) [1,836 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== The First Thought == The First Thought are a Godsend to the Northwest music scene. With lyrics that are simple and understandable, but with a "deeper meaning" to them (according to the band), this is as serious and intellectual as Northwest rock gets. But don't let that make you think they are bookworms: They also have a grasp on today's music, its sound and audience. This band has a professional approach rarely found in a venture so new — that attitude should be...")

1 October 2025

  • 22:0722:07, 1 October 2025 Music Connection (September 1996) (hist | edit) [2,203 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Kristen Barry == ''by Tom Kidd'' The story of how 26-year-old singer-songwriter and guitarist Kristen Barry came to sign with Virgin Records in early 1995 actually begins long ago. The seeds that would become Barry's debut, The Beginning, The Middle, The End, were planted in Seattle, where Barry grew up. That's also where both her manager, Kelly Curtis, and his better known client, Pearl Jam, grew up. "There's something to be said for going with someone you know." sa...")
  • 21:5821:58, 1 October 2025 Strobe Magazine (September 1996) (hist | edit) [1,540 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Kristen Barry - The Beginning, the Middle, the End == ''by Steven Gizicki'' On the first day, God (or was it the Devil?) created Alanis Morissette, and she went forth to sell gazillions of records and earn an armload of Grammies. On the second day, the major labels unleashed multitude of Alanis carbon copies unto the Earth: Patti Rothberg, Tracy Bonham, etc. On the third day, the buying public collectively retched and hurled all the trash into the compost heap. But...")
  • 21:5221:52, 1 October 2025 Eastsideweek (August 1996) (hist | edit) [1,687 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Kristen Barry == ''by Linda Laban'' On August 6 at the Crocodile Cafe, surrounded by family, friends, and the curious, Kristen Barry was very much the homecoming queen. Just back from a nationwide tour with Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament's band Three Fish, the Redmond-raised singer-songwriter and guitarist was also celebrating the release of her Virgin Reords debut CD: the beginning, the middle, the end. She was dressed in a diamante-studded thrift-store evening gown...")
  • 18:3218:32, 1 October 2025 Gavin Magazine (August 1996) (hist | edit) [949 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== KRISTEN BARRY - The Beginning. The Middle. The End. (Virgin) == ''- Max Tolkoff'' It seem like there's been a glut of female singer/songwriter/musicians in the last few years, but...so what? My attitude is that it's nice to see talented people get a shot. So Virgin snaps up Kristen Barry, a 26 -year old with stories to tell, and says "Here, go tell your stories." Very clever. This album was recorded in L.A. back in 1995 and produced by the Robb Brothers (Lemonheads,...")
  • 18:2018:20, 1 October 2025 The Straits Times (November 1996) (hist | edit) [4,874 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "(spelling errors are from the paper) == Enough of Alanis, try Kristin, Fiona, Norma... == ''- Paul Zach'' Radio stations the world over have overdosed oil Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. In fact, the 22-year-old Canadian bubble-grunge star could retire comfortably tomorrow. (Many of us wish she would). Pill has sold more than 13 million copies, according to the latest Billboard magazine statistics, in little more than a year. That puts it near far more worthy a...")
  • 17:3917:39, 1 October 2025 Duncanville Today (July 1996) (hist | edit) [4,357 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Rock n' Rollers Can Be Nice Guys Too == ''- Kevin Balentine'' So you want to be a rock-and-roll star? I think many of us have shared that dream, and for a special few it comes true. It was my pleasure to meet one of those special few last Saturday night in that vaunted temple of music, Trees. Jeff Ament, bassist of the Seattle band Pearl Jam was in town with a few of his friends performing under the name Three Fish. My best friend Laurie and I decided to go to the...")

29 September 2025

  • 17:3417:34, 29 September 2025 New Straits Times Kuala Lumpur (October 1996) review (hist | edit) [648 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "(spelling errors are from the paper) == KIRSTEN BARRY - The Beginning, The Middle, The End (Virgin Records America/56:25) == Barry's somewhere between PJ Harvey and Sheryl Crow, which makes her a rocker with a style that's neither hard nor soft. Her songs are mainly self-absorbed musings about the state of existence. There's certainly something to be learnt in things like Nothing's So Good, Gotta Go and Seeing Gun. Barry also does an interesting cover of Neil Young'...")
  • 17:2417:24, 29 September 2025 CMJ New Music (September 1996) (hist | edit) [1,424 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== KRISTEN BARRY / The Beginning The Middle The End / Virgin == Kristen Barry plied her songs for years in Seattle in various formats, emoting by herself with an acoustic guitar, and working with different bands. And judging by “Gotta Go"—a kiss-off to a guy (and a scene) too into drugs — there's no love lost for the town where her name always seemed to be misspelled in posters ("Kirsten," or “Berry"). So it's perhaps odd that her long-awaited debut is dogged by...")
  • 17:1717:17, 29 September 2025 New Straits Times Kuala Lumpur (October 1996) (hist | edit) [398 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "(spelling errors are from the paper) == KIRSTEN BARRY - The Beginning The Middle The End == KIRSTEN is a newcomer to the music scene. She has come out with a set of alternative pop which is pleasant but not exceptional. There are traces of groups like Nirvana and Pearl Jam in her moody set. Her musicians are really good, but more originality is required if she is to make the big breakthrough.")
  • 17:0917:09, 29 September 2025 Campus Times (November 1996) (hist | edit) [1,952 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Barry exceeds expectations with ‘Beginning, Middle, End’ == Being involved in the music industry is not easy. There is so much competition and expectations. But Kristen Barry’s debut album, “The Beginning, the Middle, the End,” exceeds those expectations. Barry, 26, has been involved in music since she was 5 years old. The members of her group include drummer Matt Chamberlain, guitarist Rick DeChurch and bassist Chris Ballow, on loan from the Presidents o...")
  • 17:0217:02, 29 September 2025 BigO Magazine (October 1996) (hist | edit) [2,451 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== KRISTEN BARRY == === The Beginning. The Middle. The End. === Life sucks. And from the title of the opening track, it seems that "nothing's too good" for Kristen Barry. "Why you want to shut me out, keep me down, till I feel nothing?" She asks. On another song, I Swear, she retorts: "I gave you all, I gave you what I had. I didn't think that it was really so bad, but once they start to suck, they leave you hollow in the end." Surely you get the picture by now. The to...")
  • 15:1715:17, 29 September 2025 The Review Delaware (December 1996) (hist | edit) [3,674 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== BARRY'S DEBUT TELLS OF A BITTER, HAUNTING TALE == thumb|The Review, Delaware (Dec 1996) scan The Beginning. The Middle. The End. Kristen Barry Virgin Records Rating: 3 1/2 BY JILL CORTRIGHT When Kristen Barry opened for Superdrag at the Trabant University Center Nov. 22. she tried to give the crowd more energy by providing free sugar. She and her band mates tossed strips of lollipops and bags of Her...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 14:4214:42, 29 September 2025 The Thresher (October 1996) (hist | edit) [2,787 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== IT PAYS TO BE PATIENT == ''Thresher'' writer Bill Stites had the opportunity to speak with guitarist and alternative singer/songwriter Kristen Barry. Her debut album, ''the beginning.the middle.the end.,'' is currently available on Virgin Records. BS: Who would you consider to be your major influences? KB: Oh, I have really strange tastes. Just about everything. When I was little, I listened to a lot of classical music, and th...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 14:3714:37, 29 September 2025 BigO Magazine (December 1996) (hist | edit) [2,488 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== STRIKING THE RIGHT CHORD == Maybe Kristen Barry is still dazed by the fact that her debut album, the beginning, the middle, the end (Virgin), is actually out in the stores. But for a singer/songwriter so new on the block, she seems to be unusually apprehensive about success. "I want the whole thing to happen to the extent that I can keep making records," Barry explains. "I don't want the album to be such a huge success that it becomes a huge pressure. I rather take...")
  • 14:1814:18, 29 September 2025 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (December 1996) (hist | edit) [5,203 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== BARRY MAY STILL BE SEEKING A U.S. BREAKTHROUGH == Few American musicians would think of launching a career in Southeast Asia. But Seattle-bred singer-songwriter Kristen Barry and her manager wondered if going overseas might bring a wave of success. "A lot of times when people tour Asia, they wait until they've already done the States and they've done Europe," Barry said in a phone interview. "They do it as an afterthought. But that's silly because there's a huge unta...") Tag: Visual edit

28 September 2025

  • 22:2822:28, 28 September 2025 The Rocket (July 1996) (hist | edit) [5,094 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== KRISTEN BARRY == ''by Michael Cox'' If you're a musician there's an excellent way to gauge just what level of obscurity you toil under. Pick up the club listings and check out the alien phonetics they're passing off as your name.<br> "Probably the worst was 'Krystan Berry,'" laments the artist currently known as Kristen Barry "I used to joke about it 'If you know the correct spelling you get a free T-shirt.'"<br> Ten years of relative obscurity in the Northwest have...")

11 August 2025

  • 16:3516:35, 11 August 2025 1991-08-22 (hist | edit) [241 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{infobox shows|date=August 22, 1991|venue=Off Ramp Cafe|location=Seattle, WA|lineup=Kristen Barry<br>???|bands=Capping Day, Kristen Barry, Medicine Show}} == Setlist == (unknown) == Recording Info == None == Media == ... == Notes == ...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 16:3216:32, 11 August 2025 1991-07-05 (hist | edit) [231 bytes] Kap (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{infobox shows|date=July 5, 1991|venue=The Central Tavern|location=Seattle, WA|lineup=Kristen Barry<br>???|bands=Kristen Barry, Tribal Therapy}} == Setlist == (unknown) == Recording Info == None == Media == ... == Notes == ...") Tag: Visual edit
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