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[Editor's note: Stasia Aaa, who records and performs as Ghost Bitch, relocated to Melbourne, Australia (AKA "Naarm") earlier this month (her relocation was delayed for two years by the global pandemic). What follows is an update on her activities since leaving downtown Olymp]   by Stasia Aaa I have finally made it to Naarm/Melbourne! Here’s my travelogue… Ghost Bitch played our first gig at Nighthawks [see above photog - Ed.] with Hearts & Rockets, who are a very fun band and wonderful people! They closed their set with a Bikini Kill cover much to my amusement as an Olympia transplant....

Lime Crush played their first show in a classroom at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna [I was witness! - ed.] in 2014; since then they've only expanded their creeping influence on the minds of Austrian youth. This despite many long hiatus allowing the band members to pursue other artistic endeavors. Veronika Eberhart, Lime Crush singer, drummer, etc. has wandered far and wide following her muse, traveling to Los Angeles, CA., Albania, Brussels, Belgium and to the other side of Vienna for artist-in-residence programs. "I apply for a new project, it often has to do with the nation in which...

The Seattle, Washington music scene is never static - - - ever flowing, growing, blowing up! The latest sensation emanating from the top of the Space Needle: ZAZAZ - - - the promised jet pac sound surround. Yes, ZAZAZ are poised to score tomorrow's most extravagant science-fiction films, as well as star in them. A trio of musical visionaries, Colin Roper (synths), Michiko Swiggs (synths) and Justin Schwartz (drums), this ZAZAZ sound is liquid and gelatinous, smooth, sliding over the edge slinky-style. Boinnng. ZAZAZ have released their debut album, Equinox, on both the compact disc and cassette tape format. Equinox...

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...

Above: Agnes Martin in New Mexico In 1980 Steve Peters attended an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum of works by New Mexico painter Agnes Martin. He remembers the paintings "seemed to be blank white canvases, but deeper immersion revealed a subtle aura of color quietly glowing beneath the surface. Martin had painted over her usual horizontal bands of color with layers of white gesso, creating a remarkable optical effect." Viewing these minimal, abstract works deeply influenced Steve's approach to music making: "I was so impressed by her painting over the colors so they seem to not be there, then...