Simply put Ear Candy Beat is an expansion of the successful, award-winning music blog Ear Candy. Like Ear Candy the blog, Ear Candy Beat focuses heavily on the Seattle music scene. Unlike Ear Candy the blog, Ear Candy Beat branches out into coverage of local film, art and theater. Also unlike its blog counterpart, Ear Candy Beat is not a one-man show. Ear Candy Beat is a Web site run by a group of journalists who are dedicated to providing quality coverage of the Seattle arts and music scene. A little less simply put, Ear Candy Beat is a way to keep arts journalism alive in Seattle by not only reporting on the arts and music community but by also hopefully becoming a small part of that community. We want to encourage discussion about what's happening locally and nationally and hope members of the Ear Candy community will engage each other, and the Ear Candy crew, in conversation too. We know you've got a lot to say and we want to hear it. How did Ear Candy Beat happen? Well, unfortunately local metropolitan newspapers in Seattle have heavily decreased their coverage of the local arts scene. As a journalist this saddened us and we wanted to do something about it, so we created a Web site dedicated to coverage of art, music, film and theater in Seattle.