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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,...

  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...