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  UK Gold play one of their last shows before the world closed down, 2019. Photog by Ballard Vox. The new UK Gold album Epigram No. 2 was scheduled to debut May 3, 2020, the same day UK Gold were set to open for Mudhoney at the Capitol Theater in downtown Olymp. Well, you know what happened. The album did make it's appearance, but the Mudhoney show is another coulda woulda victim of these Global Pandemic times. The good news is the ver same Mudhoney event from May 2020 is set to happen this weekend, Saturday April 9 (if you...

  above: Arrington de Dionyso holding a prototype of The F.I.B. #24 According to Jimi Sharp, editor of The F.I.B. (Fidalgo Island Is Beautiful) fanzine, "Arrington de Dionyso is a talented musician, artist, and mystic who deserves to have a biography written about him." Fair enough. In reference to The F.I.B. #24 (being held by Arrington de Dionyso in the above photog)  "This is not that." So bogus. However, any disappointment is diminished as Jimi explains "The F.I.B. #24 is simply questions asked of Arrington - Studs Terkel style - out of pure curiosity borne from my love and respect...

  Above: The new Ghost Bitch album Blood and Honey [KLP282] is in stores March 25. No one can ever forget the "pizza scene" in Rock'n'Roll High School: Ramones have just come off stage and are in their dressing room when the big moment arrives: the pizza! ("No pizza for you, Joey.") Rock'n'roll and pizza, a classic combination. Old School Pizzeria, an institution in Downtown Olympia, has been the epitome of that classic combination for about one million years. Though it has always passed inspection by the Thurston County Dept. of Health with flying colors, Old School has been a...

The new Ghost Bitch "Scar" video must be seen.

  Above: Phil Elverum, The Microphones, 1999 The Microphones all over again In July of 2019 Karl Blau conducted a week-long tour of the Salish Sea, playing shows on Lopez Island, Orcas Island, Bellingham, Vancouver, B.C., Everett, Guemes Island, ending with a show in Anacortes (located on Fidalgo Island). I took an AMTRAK train north and joined him for the first five of these shows. On Orcas Island we stayed with Phil Elverum and his daughter. Phil had just recorded a new album with Julie Doiron (released as Lost Wisdom Pt. 2 on his P.W. Elverum & Sun label), and...