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Last weekend Michael Reitmulder of the Seattle Times listed Karl Blau's new LP Scream Time (Spiral Valley) as one of "The best Washington albums of 2022 (so far)" (Scream Time is the name of Karl's latest album on the LP format; it's known as Love & Harm to CD and digital download/streaming consumers). After noting Karl Blau's "skipping to Philly," Reitmulder declares he still qualifies as "one of Washington's most creatively restless artists" who recorded Scream Time at The Unknown in Anacortes, Washington with a bevy of Northwest pals and visionaries (including members of LAKE).   Karl Blau, Scream Time...

This week an unsuspecting public has been trounced with multiple remixes of the Hot Chip single "Down", including the melodica-drenched "Dumb It Down" by Selector Dub Narcotic. One of a passel of "Down" remixes, "Dumb It Down" was set astray along with radically diverse takes on the affair by Sworn Virgins and Nyra. Selector Dub Narcotic, Memphis, TN. by Jamie Harmon "Down" is excerpted from the upcoming Hot Chip album Freakout/Release, out August 19. The dance floor knows all, sees all; yet somehow Hot Chip have managed to sneak past all monitors sans hall pass to animate the public address...

[Editor's note: Stasia Aaa, who records and performs as Ghost Bitch, relocated to Melbourne, Australia (AKA "Naarm") earlier this month (her relocation was delayed for two years by the global pandemic). What follows is an update on her activities since leaving downtown Olymp]   by Stasia Aaa I have finally made it to Naarm/Melbourne! Here’s my travelogue… Ghost Bitch played our first gig at Nighthawks [see above photog - Ed.] with Hearts & Rockets, who are a very fun band and wonderful people! They closed their set with a Bikini Kill cover much to my amusement as an Olympia transplant....

Karl Blau disappeared into the Unknown - - - Unknown Studio in Anacortes, Washington that is, and recorded the freaky new album Scream Time (Spiral Valley). Aided by pals from LAKE and elsewhere, this collection of songs means a lot to Karl Blau fans; after all the "ultimate Karl Blau albums," Scream Time is an album of beauty and majesty. It's everything one needs in a Karl Blau album.   the Karl Blau album Scream Time is available now from The K Mail Order Dept.   Uncoincidentally, there is also a new documentary about Karl Blau and his massively exploding...

  Look at them Olymp rockers. Above right to left there's Tobi Vail, whom you know from Spider & the Webs, Peter Daivd Connelly aka The Mona Reels (also plays in Quayde LaHüe and WULF), Ricky Meyer of Rik and the Pigs and new on the scene KT who phase-shifts between electric bass guitar and vocal dynamisms extraordinaire. This is The Real Distractions! The have a new four song EP out now, Stupid [IPU148], the latest volume in our International Pop Underground series. The Real Distractions make the Olymp weird-out punk noise, less dank than some more corrugated than others,...