Leader of The Long Winters and a Death Cab for Cutie collaborator, John Roderick, 46, is hanging up his guitar to run for city council on a platform of putting the arts first.
Music trained me for the job
"Politics is similar to when you're a young band and execs say you need to stand next to a brick wall, smoke and look apathetic in photos. Great bands insist on being themselves, and the industry changes around them. Politics is the same way: Candidates conform, but I won't. I couldn't run that way. Being a musician also means I'm up late cruising around Seattle, and that's how I got a deeper sense of how a city operates -- that's when we replenish supermarkets, move shipping containers."
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