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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...

The debut cassette from Olympia Underground pop combo Field School!

Pictured above: Thin Veil Olympia Underground cassettes! Super cool and groovy new music from Olympia available on cassette tape, perhaps the perfect format for such soundz. Here are a few recent releases one really can't live without. Fold them within.   Field School, It's only Everything (Small Craft Advisory) CS An EP, five songs by Charles Bert (formerly of Olympia's Math and Physics Club) on a new Olympia label, Small Craft Advisory. A whole new era dawns! Field School has Charles and the Field School orchestra jangling brightly on their Vox guitars and tambourines. A hush ascends. Ghost Bitch, Pop...

  Above: Mike and Anton preparing for the WULF recording session, Olympia, WA In Olympia the rock'n'roll keeps coming. The latest addition to the pile is a new cassette album by WULF, a super-combo comprised of assorted players you may recognize from other bands: Jonny Wulf (Christian Mistress, Quayde LaHüe, Cosmic Highness), Anton (Earthgasm), Mike Liebman (Vexx), Peter David Connelly (The Mona Reels, Quayde LaHüe, The Real Distractions). Veterans of heavy sounds, these folks gathered together in 2014 to create a power pop panoply influenced by the likes of Stories, Pilot, Dwight Twilley Band and other '70s ear wormers. Pure...