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Old school Ghost Bitch!
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...
Primal!
Above: Nation of Ulysses featured in K News #16, 1990 Memphis - - - nothing ever happens there, but it's happening all the time. Wide streets canopy trees blues singer playing at the laundromat. Everybody knows somebody who did something. And they're still doing it. Not a sleepy southern town, Memphis - - - Teeming. Crawling. Bubbling under. Dunt forget about blues, country, jazz, soul, gospel both black and white. The Mississippi River looms large over Memphis, though it's easy to forget it is rolling by less than a mile away. It may not be the town it once was,...
BMX Bandits on the BBC!
Above: one of the new BMX Bandits DBL 7" of BBC session recordings Janice Long fought Neil Tennant and Nick Heyward on the BBC Round Table celebrity record rating show for the honor of BMX Bandits and their debut single "E102". According to Duglas T. Stewart of BMX Bandits, "They both thought it was terrible but she loved it and wouldn’t give in." Janice, BBC 1 radio host and DJ played "E102" many times on her show and invited the combo down from Glasgow, Scotland to record an exclusive session in 1986, and again in 1987. Now both BMX Bandits...
The Microphones all over again.
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...