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Live Music Tonight: Little Wings

Karl Blau Wants To Teach You How to Do Rad Stuff With Looping Pedals and Other Devices

Ten Albums I Fully Expect to Kick Ass in 2009

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone  The Thermals - Now We Can See The Curious Mystery's K Records debut. I have been chomping at the bit for that shit.Canary Sing's album. Those ladies' rhyme skills consistently blow me away.  The Final Spins' album, which I know they've been working on already ... More >>

More New Years' Eve Shows to Consider

The Pharmacy, "Tropical Yeti" videoShould you not feel so inclined to drop the $50 on the Paramount's shindig, aren't in the mood for the symphony, and don't plan to hit up Buckethead at the Moore (he's with the Portland Cello Project, though; that will probably be sort of cool) here are a few oth ... More >>

Evening Plains EP Download

Some of you may be familiar with the Curious Mystery, a new K Records band I've loved on quite a bit in the past few months. That band is fronted by Shana Cleveland, who sings like a lark (there are times when she sounds just like Chan Marshall to me), plays a mean autoharp and is, on the whole, qui ... More >>

Stream Chain And The Gang's Down With Liberty...Up With Chains!

It must be said before all else that K Records band Chain And The Gang sound a lot-- a LOT-- like the Velvet Underground and/or Jonathan Richman ("Room 19," a track about a party, made me think of "Parties In The USA" IMMEDIATELY.) Should this dissuade you from listening to their new record, Down Wi ... More >>

A Pre-SXSW Mixtape From K Records And Asthmatic Kitty

K Records and Asthmatic Kitty are teaming up on the SXSW showcase this year, and if you're one of the lucky ducks who's attending with a wristband or a badge, perhaps you should attend this showcase. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be in Austin until Thursday (sob), but all you Wednesday folks who' ... More >>

The Curious Mystery's K Records Debut: Rotting Slowly

One of The Curious Mystery's brand-spankin' new press photos The Curious Mystery is, hands down, my favorite emerging band in Seattle right now. Like a languid, more mournful Black Mountain, their heady psychedelia sounds like messy garage cacophony and country western fucking on acid. Frontwoman S ... More >>

Live Music Round Up: Tuesday, April 7

Jeremy Jay, Wallpaper, Cosmetics at Sunset Tavern, 9 p.m., $7 Were you a Cure freak in high school? You'll probably like K Records artist Jeremy Jay (pictured), who makes this sort of lo-fi New Wave music that manages not to be painfully derivative, as so many contemporary incarnations of "New Wave ... More >>

Wallpaper (CD release)

Saturday, November 8

The Curious Mystery

Wednesday, August 6th

Little Wings

Wednesday, April 2

International Pop Overthrow Festival

Friday, August 24

Freewheelin' Radio

Bob Dylan's record collection is as bizarre and intriguing as his public persona.

One More Time

Speaker Speaker shake off their difficult past in favor of pure guitar pop.

Old Time Relijun

Speaker Speaker shake off their difficult past in favor of pure guitar pop.

Field of Skreee

The Olympia Festival of Experimental Musics celebrates its diamond anniversary.

Washing Your Ears

A conversation with a Microphone.

CD Reviews

A conversation with a Microphone.

Days of our nights

A conversation with a Microphone.

CD Reviews

A conversation with a Microphone.

The day the music didn't die

The independent music world came to Olympia 10 years ago for a pivotal event.

Where the ladies are

Two of our reporters went to Ladyfest and all we got were these dumb journals.

Way to go, Yoyo

Olympia's occasional indie-rock festival is quite an occasion.

The Curious Mystery (CD release)

Friday, May 15

Five Weekend Shows for $5 and Under

FRIDAY Carbon Leaf at Easy Street Records, 6 p.m., free, all ages Yeah, you could pay $25 at the Showbox tonight, or you could see Carbon Leaf play their melodic, heartfelt songs from their latest, Nothing Rhymes With Woman, for free at Easy Street. Your choice. SATURDAY Emma Hill and her Gentle ... More >>

Helsing Junction Sleepover 2009 Line-up is K-rific

The Pine Hill Haints, who play this year's Helsing Junction Sleepover​Please, forgive me my bad pun, but seriously: K Records has outdone themselves this year. The Helsing Junction Sleepover festival takes place a mere hour and a half from Seattle, the cost is low and the line-up is excellent ... More >>

Karp Documentary Benefits on the West Coast

​As reported here on REVERB back in April, New York-based filmmaker Bill Badgley (guitarist from Bellingham's Federation X) is finishing up a documentary on the late, great band Karp. With notable assistance from Montana-based label Wantage, Olympia's K Records and Calvin Johnson, this project ... More >>

Talbot Tagora

​As reported here on REVERB back in April, New York-based filmmaker Bill Badgley (guitarist from Bellingham's Federation X) is finishing up a documentary on the late, great band Karp. With notable assistance from Montana-based label Wantage, Olympia's K Records and Calvin Johnson, this project ... More >>

New Release I'm Most Excited About in 2010: The Blow's Upcoming EP

A photo from Khaela Maricich's blog, her current artistic outlet while taking a hiatus from The Blow.​I know 2010 isn't even half over yet--which means there's plenty of time for totally mind-blowing music to reach my ears--but I find the news that Khaela Maricich is planning a new EP incredib ... More >>

K Records Goes Digital With Zip-Pak, The Newest Version of the Singles Club

Karl Blau is just one of many K Records artists whose singles will be featured in the in the new Zip-Pak Singles Series.​Looks like Suicide Squeeze isn't the only record label the singles club. K Records just announced the launch of the K Singles Zip-Pak, a weekly series of underground singles ... More >>

Chain and the Gang's New Single, "(I've Got) Privilege," Available Now As a K Recs 7-Inch

Sarah Cass​Last year, K Records released Down With Liberty...Up With Chains!, a full-length from D.C. musician Ian Svenonius' current project, Chain and the Gang. The band was billed as "a jailhouse quartet that's roaming the northwest, preaching Svenonius' anti-capitalist funky blues gospel, ... More >>

Chain and the Gang & Golden Triangle at the Crocodile Last Night

Nick FeldmanVashti of Golden Triangle.​ Chain and the Gang with Golden Triangle Tuesday, July 6 Crocodile Brooklyn's Golden Triangle opened for Chain and the Gang last night -- Golden Triangle is a Hardly Art-signed psychedelic outfit of 3 boys and 3 very stylin' girls who wore last night, re ... More >>

What The Heck Fest #9 - Featuring Calvin Johnson, LAKE, Kimya Dawson - Kicks Off Today In Anacortes

Ted PassonKimya Dawson will play What The Heck Fest this Sunday.​Anacortes' annual music and arts blowout, What The Heck Fest, kicks off today and goes through Sunday, with full days of comedy, film, food, a huge rummage sale, and, of course, live music. It's worth the drive up north -- hometo ... More >>

LAKE

Ted PassonKimya Dawson will play What The Heck Fest this Sunday.​Anacortes' annual music and arts blowout, What The Heck Fest, kicks off today and goes through Sunday, with full days of comedy, film, food, a huge rummage sale, and, of course, live music. It's worth the drive up north -- hometo ... More >>

Tonight: LAKE at the Tractor, Dark Dark Dark at the Sunset, Block Party Day 3

Sarah Cass​LAKE, with Breathe Owl Breathe, Typhoon. Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave. N.W., 789-3599. 9 p.m. $8. Eli Moore and Ashley Eriksson started the Olympia collective LAKE with every intention of touring as a Fleetwood Mac cover band. They ended up ditching that plan to write and record ... More >>

Mount Eerie to Release Eight Years of Rarities on Song Islands Vol. 2

Song Islands Vol. 2 will include a double-vinyl of rarities and a 32-page booklet​ Anacortes' Mount Eerie will release a compilation of rarities and B-Sides on October 19. Mount Eerie is the current moniker and noisier, crunchier rock solo project from the always weird Phil Elverum of Micropho ... More >>

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

Song Islands Vol. 2 will include a double-vinyl of rarities and a 32-page booklet​ Anacortes' Mount Eerie will release a compilation of rarities and B-Sides on October 19. Mount Eerie is the current moniker and noisier, crunchier rock solo project from the always weird Phil Elverum of Micropho ... More >>

K Recs' Calvin Johnson Was Just in the Office, and He Almost Hit His Head on the Rafters

​K Records boss Calvin Johnson swung by the office this afternoon to introduce us to his newest hire--charming album-pusher Kelly McClure--and pass off a few of the label's latest (Lake's Giving & Receiving, Chain & the Gang's Music's Not for Everyone, etc.). He was hoping to get a few words i ... More >>

K Records' 2011 Helsing Junction Sleepover: Slumber Party with LAKE, The Curious Mystery, Tender Forever, & More

​If you missed out on Doe Bay tickets, here's another low-key August festival option: K Records' annual Helsing Junction Sleepover, a three-day event held down south in Thurston County at Helsing Junction Farms, a 30-acre sprawl in Rochester. This year the event will go from August 19th-21st ... More >>

LAKE's "Within/Without" vs. Washed Out's Within and Without (With Internal/External Bonus Beat!)

Speaking of LAKE, the musically adventurous yet temperamentally mellow Olympia choral pop ensemble recently released the above video for their song "Within/Without," off their forthcoming album Giving and Receiving (out June 15th on K Records). And speaking of that title, yesterday Sub Pop releas ... More >>

New Favorite Band Alert: Cumulus, the Perfect Soundtrack to This Week's Sun

Marybeth Coghill​By far the best thing that's come out of joining Twitter (@foolsjules, holla!) is my discovery of the music of Cumulus and the mastermind behind the name, Alexandra Niedzialkowski. Her dreamy songs are the perfect accompaniment to the recent spate of sunny weather, and the tra ... More >>

Tickets For K Recs' Helsing Junction Sleepover Are Now On Sale For $30

​Tickets for K Records' annual Helsing Junction Sleepover--which will take place this year on August 19-32--are now on sale. Three day passes, which include camping on site and access to all the live music going on, are only $30 in advance ($35 at the gate). And as of right now, the lineup is ... More >>

Reviews: It's November 2011, and Seattle Sounds Like . . .

Our take on every local release of the month.

Want to Hear Seapony's New Songs? Check Out Their Show at the Vera Project This Saturday with Brave Irene & Generifus

Kyle Dean Reinford​On November 22, Hardly Art will release Seapony's follow-up to their May full-length, Go With Me--the 7-inch single "Sailing" b/w "I Saw You." The two sides of this single showcase two sides of Seapony--"Sailing" is soft, pretty, and wondrously fragile; "I Saw You" ratchets ... More >>

Today Reverb Recommends Streaming the Upcoming 7" From K Records Band The Hive Dwellers

Judith BaumannThe Hive Dwellers will release a split 7" tomorrow on K Records.​ Calvin Johnson is the founder of Olympia's K Records, and his Hive Dwellers project will release a new single tomorrow on the same label. The single features the A-side "Lynch the Swan;" its B-side is a dub remix ... More >>

Olympia's Maxines Make a Helluva Racket for Just Two People

Sarah Cass​​​​​Band: The Maxines Release: Drugstore EP Label: K Records Release Date: Jan. 24, 2012 Four songs of super fuzzed-out garage rock from this Olympia duo comprised of Matt Murillo and Kelly Norman. For just two people, they make a helluva lot of racket, taking turns singing ... More >>

Reviews: It's January 2012 and Seattle Sounds Like...

Our take on every local release of the month.

Kendl Winter's Second K Release Is Clean and Pristine

​(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) Kendl Winter The Mechanics of Hovering Flight Release Date: January 24, K Records Banjo-wielding multi-instrumentalist Kendl Winter's second release on Olympia's K Records is rich and earthy, drawing its subtle strength and strong storytelling from a love of the Pacifi ... More >>

Reviews: It's February 2012 and Seattle Sounds Like...

Our take on every local release.