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Chris Robley: "The Stephen King of Indie-Pop."

The LA Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, NPR, and other fine publications have used nice words to describe my music.

As a songwriter and bandleader, I’ve released 6 albums of original material. As a producer and/or session-player, I’ve appeared on over 50 records, mostly by pop, rock, folk, and jazz artists from the Pacific Northwest.

I’m also a contemporary American poetry fanatic. I’ve recently begun dipping my toe into the frightening world of submitting poems for publication, as well as editing YRTEOP.COM (“POETRY” spelled backwards)– home to poet interviews, poetry news, and 1-Minute Poem Reports.

As marketing coordinator for CD Baby and BookBaby (distributors of independent music and books) I also manage/edit the DIY Musician Blog which sees over 100k unique visits per month, as well as the new BookBaby Blog.

Content never sleeps. Also, “content” is a terrible word.

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Delusions of Adequacy Review (adequacy.net)

Chris Robley & The Fear of Heights – Movie Theatre Haiku

April 9, 2009Â byÂ Lisa TownÂ Â Â Category:Â Albums (and EPs)

Chris Robley & The Fear of Heights – Movie Theatre Haiku

Movie Theatre HaikuÂ marks Chris Robley & The Fear of Heightsâ€™ third album, another book in their series of [...]

Skyscraper Review- Spring 2009, Issue 30

CHRIS ROBLEY & THE FEAR OF HEIGHTS Movie Theatre Haiku CD â€“ Cutthroat Pop

Thereâ€™s a point during â€œA Memory Lost at Sea,â€ which opens Chris Robleyâ€™s third effort, Movie Theatre Haiku, when you realize Robley isÂ more than just an indie rocker with a singer/songwriter knack. It is not the judicious use of sax [...]

Interview on The Reviewist

The Interviewist – Chris Robley

byÂ DanÂ on Mar.24, 2009, underÂ Alternative,Â Other

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My Life in Film Festivals (haiku #1) (Click to play)

A Memory Lost At Sea (Click to play)

From the album â€œMovie Theatre Haikuâ€

-Reproduced in their entirety with expressed permission from Cutthroat Pop Records-

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In all [...]

Bullz-Eye.com Reviews ‘movie theatre haiku’

Â M. Ward, Harry Nilsson, The Beatles

Cutthroat Pop

Chris Robley & The Fear of Heights: Movie Theatre Haiku Indie/Alternative 2009 Buy the CD

Reviewed by Michael Fortes

(mfortes@bullz-eye.com)

Chris Robley represents a high ideal in rock â€“ an artist who reaches for the new and uncertain while retaining a firm [...]

Chris Robley Featured in Crawdaddy!

Chris Robley’s Drunken Dances and Blue Haikus by j. poetÂ â€¢Â March 23, 2009

A few years back, a critic with a hyperactive imagination called Portland, Oregonâ€™s Chris Robley â€œthe Stephen King of indie pop.â€ Itâ€™s a great sound bite, but doesnâ€™t really do Robley or his music justice. â€œI liked [that blurb] and used [...]

Amplifier Magazine Featured Album Stream

Chris Robley & the Fear of Heights are Amplifier Magazine’s featured streaming artist this week.

StreamÂ movie theatre haiku for free by clicking the “Launch Amp 3 Radio” link.

Pet Marmoset Presents “Writer’s Block”- by Ryan Wines

This Saturday night at Holocene in downtown Portland, Team Marmoset will be â€œusing our power for goodâ€, as we present, â€œWriterâ€™s Blockâ€ – a benefit show, with all proceeds going to the Oregon Food Bank.

Writerâ€™s Block is a little idea we came up with to accomplish a couple of things in the community. [...]

________________________ 07/23/11- Portland, OR: Week-long residency at the Crystal Hotel. Night #7.

07/22/11- Portland, OR: Week-long residency at the Crystal Hotel. Night #6.

07/21/11- Portland, OR: Week-long residency at the Crystal Hotel. Night #5.

07/20/11- Portland, OR: Week-long residency at the Crystal Hotel. Night #4.

07/19/11- Portland, OR: Week-long residency at the Crystal Hotel. Night #3.

07/18/11- Portland, OR: Week-long residency at the Crystal Hotel. Night #2.

07/17/11- Portland, OR: Week-long residency at the Crystal Hotel. Night #1.

06/27/11- Portland, OR: White Eagle, Fear of Heights' June residency. Week #4.

06/25/11- Troutdale, OR: Edgefield Windery, duo show w/ Dan Adlaf on keys and horn.

06/23/11- Gearhart, OR: Sand Trap, full Fear of Heights. (All ages. 7-10pm.)

06/20/11- Portland, OR: White Eagle, Fear of Heights' June residency. Week #3.

06/13/11- Portland, OR: White Eagle, Fear of Heights' June residency. Week #2.

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