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  This Friday (August 27) is the official release date of the new album Fake Books [KLP278] by Olymp combo The Moving Pictures. In the record business we refer to August 27 as the "street date", which is the day the LP will be available in record stores, though Fake Books has been available as a digital album (from all the usual suspects) throughout the summer. that's show biz. Fake Books is a co-release between and Perennial, a local label operated by Hayes of The Moving Pictures (pictured, above). Perennial is responsible for scads of groovy recs from the last...

The new comedic series Reservation Dogs uses 20 seconds of the Beat Happening song "Our Secret" in this week's episode.

  Above: Beat Happening "Crashing Through (Meyering Mix)" cover art by Heather Lewis After the first Beat Happening album was released in 1985, we had the idea of recording some of our newer songs (this is a band that had existed for only two years at that point). We gathered together all our ideas and headed to Yo-Yo Studio, which at the time was located in a converted chicken coop on the rural far Westside of Olympia. It doubled as the residence of Patrick Maley, Yo-Yo Studio proprietor. Patrick had us record some songs there in the chicken coop, and...

Above: Sam  Jayne, Diana Arens, Love as Laughter The Greks Bring Gifts [KLP051] recording session outside Dub Narcotic Studio, 17th Ave SE, Olympia, Washington, 1995 (all photogs by Pat Castaldo). Diana Arens began her recording life as a live engineer on Olympia's community radio station  KAOS-FM. "I saw recording as an extension of the work I did at KAOS, documenting the creative scene."  She produced one of the first such broadcasts when Michelle Noel was hosting Lync on Color outside the Lines, April 12, 1993. Soon after she attended a Mecca Normal show in Seattle and was amazed by opening...

Above: Lync loose on the street, 1994: Dave, Sam, James; photog by Jeff Smith With the recent death of Sam Jayne the calls for access to the recordings of Lync have been redoubled, nay tripled! Sam planned to issue the Lync recordings on his own Tracks of Quality records label. K relinquished the master tapes to him about a decade ago for this purpose, but people, these things take time! It was only after Sam's death we learned he had issued the two Lync albums These Are Not Fall Colors and Remembering the Fireballs (Pt. 8) via the Tracks of...