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The debut cassette from Olympia Underground pop combo Field School!

  Above: The virtual reality production, "This is Not a Ceremony," by lead artist Ahnahktsipiitaa (Colin Van Loon), is an official selection of the New Frontier Program at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute and Indian Country Today) [The following Sundance 2022 Scene Report is written by Comrade Kino of the Госкино Collective.]   Wuts up ax swingers?! I've been attending/ working the Sundance Film Festival for the last 13 years and 2022 is no exception...even tho there are no irl screenings this year. The Sundance Film Festival is held on the ancestral homeland of the...

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...

  Above: Beat Happening, Crashing Through 1988 12" EP reissued as a gatefold double 7" The guitar scream drum pound of Beat Happening, howling through the rural Northwest, was apparently just the thing to compliment a corduroy enshrouded freak scene going down concurrently in Scotland during the late '80s. Enough so that the second Beat Happening album, Jamboree, released in the United States by Rough Trade Records, was in Europe added to the growing crashpop catalogue of Scotland's 53rd & 3rd label. By the time Jamboree made it's appearance in 1988, 53rd & 3rd, founded by Stephen Pastel (of The...