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  Above: advertisement for Blind Willie Johnson's first record, 1927 Third Man Records has issued several volumes of their American Epic series, based on the three part PBS documentary presented by T-Bone Burnett, Robert Redford and Jack White. American Epic explores the birth of American music and it's roots in jazz, blues and country music in the early twentieth century. Some volumes of American Epic are now available from The K Mail Order Dept. One volume focuses on Blind Willie Johnson, a Texas bluesman who recorded over 30 songs in the '20s and '30s. The following overview of Blind Willie...

  Above: a still from The Mona Reels "Without Love" video directed by Jolie M-A of Ribbon Stage Without love all over again. Exploring a world without love while making a cup of tea at home is the subject of the new single by The Mona Reels, as exemplified by their new video "Without Love". It's not a bad life. The song doesn't say "poor me" or even "I'm lonely"; the perspective is "here I am, deep in the human condition, without love". Staying off the tilt-a-whirl is such relief, in fact. In comparison to the Carole King/Gerry Goffin Brill...

  A major fire occurred last Wednesday in downtown Olympia, Washington, one block north of the K office when a four story apartment building under construction mysteriously burst into flames. Fortunately no one was injured, but many folks with connections to K were affected as the fire quickly moved north damaging several other nearby buildings. This fire is going to change downtown Olympia, as many of the businesses affected may not relocate in the downtown area. Directly across the alley was Revival Motors and Coffee, a combination coffee and motorcycle repair shop run by Audrey Henley and her husband Jimmy....

  This is the sound of NOW, TODAY, 2021 in Spades. Swansea Sound (Hue Williams, Amelia Fletcher, Rob Pursey, Ian Button) are the latest victim of the global pandemic and via their new album Live at the Rum Puncheon we are all the beneficiaries. What these people did is picked up their instruments turning our collective misery and heartache into spun audio gold. It's like a Pop Music Newspaper; they're reading our thoughts, not just the global health situation, our collective cynicism about the political cataclysm and general social ineptitude; Live at the Rum Puncheon is a pantograph for our...