August 28th, 2010

Aug
29

Comadre – “El Padre Macho” | Burn Your Bones (Bloodtown)

The Measure [SA] – “Autonomously” | Historical Fiction (Team Science)
Defiance, Ohio – “Dissimilarity Index” | Midwestern Minutes (No Idea)
Mutoid Men – “Red Giant” | Mutoid World (Rumbletowne)

Know Your Saints – “Like a Funnel Cloud” | Escape Artists EP (Solidarity)
New Bruises – “Grasping at Straws” | The Measure [SA] & New Bruises (Kiss of Death)
Junker – “Down The Drain” | Better in the End (Death to False Hope)

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August 21st, 2010

Aug
22

Wavves – “Baseball Cards” | King of the Beach (Fat Possum)

Titus Andronicus – “?And Ever” | The Monitor (XL Recordings)
Audacity – “Teenage Town” | Power Drowning (Post Present Medium)
Street Eaters – “Black Water” | We See Monsters (Bakery Outlet)

Bomb the Music Industry – “Planning My Death” | Adults!!! (Quote Unquote)
Defiance, Ohio – “Cigarettes” | Midwestern Minutes (No Idea)
Paul Baribeau – “Rolling Clouds” | Unbearable (No Idea)

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NPR: Olympia All-Ages Project

Aug
20

There’s a cool feature on Olympia’s All-Ages Project on NPR’s website:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2010/08/20/129326440/olympia-wash-why-here-why-now

The Northern is a really great space that hosts a lot of amazing music. It’s cool that they got some press.

Here’s their website:
http://www.northernolympia.org/

Street Eaters, Audacity & Todd Congelliere @ the Blue House

Aug
18

This show was Western Hymn (Olympia, WA), Street Eaters (Oakland, CA), Songs for Moms (Oakland, CA), and Audacity (San Pedro, CA) with Todd Congelliere playing with them. Pretty awesome lineup and for most of the bands, there was a decent sized crowd (though it’s pretty hard to fill a basement in Olympia in the Summer). The touring bands were all on their way to play TOTAL FEST in Missoula, MT. Really nice folks all around.

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August 14th, 2010

Aug
15
Sinaloa

Sinaloa photo by Joshua Peach

Sinaloa – “Legs.Limbs.Wings” | Oceans of Islands (Level Plane)

Gun Outfit –  ”The Flower Beneath The Foot” | Possession Sound (Post Present Medium)
Blank Dogs – “Falling Back” | Under and Under (In The Red)
The Wonder Years –  ”Mike Kennedy is a Bad Friend” | Won’t Be Pathetic Forever (No Sleep)

Sisters –  ”So Long” | Everybody (Parts Unknown)
Tubers –  ”Small Signs Big Posts” | Anachronus (Bakery Outlet)
Daniel Striped Tiger –  ”Pedestrian” | Certain Stuff (Yellow Ghost)

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August 7th, 2010

Aug
8

Ringers (Boston, MA)

Ringers – “Nothing to Show” | Detention Halls (1-2-3-4 GO!)

Sass Dragons – “Workhorse” | Bonkaroo! (Johann’s Face)
RVIVR – “Edge of Living” | RVIVR (Rumbletowne)
Young Livers – “Finger to the Pulse” | Bridge and Tunnel & Young Livers Split (No Idea)

La Dispute – “Why It Scares Me” | Searching For a Pulse (No Sleep)
Failures – “Friends” | Failures (Youth Attack! / Clean Plate)
Racebannon – “Maybe I’m Just Camera Shy”| First There Was The Emptiness (Secretly Canadian)

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July 31st, 2010

Aug
1

Fucked Up – “Magic Word” | The Chemistry of Common Life (Matador)

1994! – “acknowledge the rage” | FCKYRHED (Inkblot)
Refused – “The Refused Party Program” | The Shape of Punk to Come (Burning Heart)
Touche Amore – “And Now It’s Happening in Mine” | ..to the beat of a dead horse (6131)

Comadre – “60 Grit” | Trainwreck split (Bloodtown)
Paint It Black – “Homesick” | Amnesia (Bridge Nine)
La Dispute – “How I Feel” | Searching For a Pulse / The Worth of Things (No Sleep)

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July 24th, 2010

Jul
25

PDX! photo by Kirsten R

Know Your Saints – “Slightest Sleight of Hand”   |   Escape Artists EP (Solidarity)

Pink Razors – “Spaceheater”   |   Leave Alive (No Idea)
RVIVR – “Life and Death”   |   RVIVR (Rumbletowne)
Bridge and Tunnel – “No I’m Not”   |   Loss Leaders (Yo Yo)

1994! – “A+ Brain”   |   FCKYRHED (Inkblot)”
We Were Skeletons – “Bruce Willis is Dead The Whole Time”   |   We Were Skeletons (Top Shelf)
Comadre – “Camel Bucks”   |   Comadre/Trainwreck Split (Bloodtown)

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July 17th, 2010

Jul
18

Lucas from Know Your Saints (SEA) joined Frankie B in the studio. He picked most of the music, so Frank’s picks are marked (FB) sometimes.

Mayflower – “Movie Quotes & Inside Jokes”

Too Many Daves – “Sarasota Slim”
The Cute Lepers – “No Escape”
Parts & Labor – “Fractured Skies”

Psyched to Die – “Scatterbrained”
Torche – “Vampyro”
Shark Pants – “Shark Pants”
Okie Dokie – “Bad Luck”

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July 10th, 2010

Jul
11

Nicki covered the show! Total Awesomeness…

Superchunk – “Dance Lessons”

The Casual Dots – “Hooded”
The Intima – “New Roots”
The Soviettes – “Number One is Number Two”
Lava Lava – “You Look So Nice”

Hooky – “6th and Santa Fe”
Chin Up, Meriwether! – “Relapse, Recovery, Reprise”
Drunken Boat – “Summerwine”
Teenage Cool Kids – “Find Out”

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June 3rd, 2010

Jul
4

OWTH @ FEST 5 by National Underground

Off With Their Heads – “I Need You”

Paint It Black – “The Ledge”
Gun Outfit – “Feeling Good”
Titus Andronicus – “Titus Andronicus Forever”

Yikes! A Lion! – “Wasteland”
Madison Bloodbath – “Prom Night at the Burn Clinic”
Okker – “Nuggets (Mid Ten)”

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Lemuria, RVIVR, Build Us Airplanes @ Black Lodge (SEA)

Jul
1

Lemuria were super cool. I didn’t hear them play a lot of my favorites, but it was still a good show. I only half succeeded in starting the MOSH in Florida style for their benefit (that’s a joke, folks – but I did boogie down, of course). Read more »

June 26th, 2010

Jun
27
Psyched to Die

Psyched to Die photo by Drew Levinson

Psyched to Die – “Punch Press”

Eddy Current Suppression Ring – “Isn’t It Nice”
The Marked Men – “We Won’t Talk About It”
The Ergs – “Finn”

House Boat – “D.C. Showcase Presents: Inferiority Complex Vol. 420″
Mean Jeans – “Throwin’ Stones”
Good Luck – “West Wind Ride”

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June 19th, 2010

Jun
20

Paul Baribeau – “Help a Kid Out”

Good Luck – “Decider”
Dan Padilla – “Just Maybe”
Mean Jeans – “Space Trash”

Iron Lung – “Pig Hands”
Racebannon – “Under the Influence of Gravity”
Lemuria – “Dogs”

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June 12th, 2010

Jun
13

Anchor Arms – “Girl and a Glacier”

The Gateway District – “Keep Track of The Time”
Chop Sakis – “Atari 2600″
House Boat – “Payment Plan”

Dan Padilla – “I Should Have Killed You When I Had The Chance”
Landlord – “Riverman”
Something Fierce – “Hey Houston”

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May 29th, 2010

May
30

The Lord Dog Bird

The Lord Dog Bird – “The Gift of Song in The Lion’s Den”

Crystal Stilts – “Love is a Wave”
Abe Vigoda – “Don’t Lie”
Blank Dogs – “L Machine”

Lemuria – “Bee Spit”
The Measure [SA] – “Union Pool”
Dead to Me – “Fell Right In”

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Good Luck, Kimya Dawson, & Your Heart Breaks @ the Northern

May
23

Good Luck

Good Luck (Bloomington, IN) played in Olympia, WA tonight at the Northern (the Olympia All-Ages Project) with Kimya Dawson (OLY) and  Your Heart Breaks (Clyde from Seattle, WA). Read more »

May 22nd 2010

May
23

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Love is All – “Never Now”

Cloak/Dagger – “Hollywood Hills”
Banner Pilot – “No Transfer”
The Measure [SA] – “Little Things”

Cheap Girls – “No One to Blame”
Have Gun, Will Travel – “Sons and Daughters of the Gilded Age”
Ninja Gun – “Eight Miles Out”

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Frightened Rabbit / Maps and Atlases / Our Brother the Native at Neumos (SEA)

May
16

Frightened Rabbit

Frightened Rabbit played Neumo’s in Seattle on Sunday night. They’re a pretty great indie rock band, they remind me of most of what I liked about The Wedding Present, but with a little more early U2 influence or something. Read more »

May 15, 2010

May
16

Whiskey Trench

Whiskey Trench – “Break Me Down”

This is My Fist – “Wooden Bullets”
Banner Pilot – “Skeleton Key”
Tubers – “Hunger Artist”

The Measure [SA] – “Hit the Ground Running”
Off With Their Heads – “Keep Falling Down”
Dead to Me – “Bad Friends”

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May 8th, 2010

May
9

Shark Pants

Shark Pants – “Watergun”

Shook Ones – “Bad Year”
Cloak/Dagger – “Set The Alarm”
Banner Pilot – “Empty Your Bottles”

Dead to Me – “Special Professional”
Off With Their Heads – “Heroin in NYC”
The Measure [SA] – Drunk By Noon

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No Bunny / Milk Music at the Northern (OLY)

May
4

nobunny

No Bunny (CA) played the Northern on Tuesday. They’ve got a pretty bearable mix of garage rock and weirdness. Read more »

Western Hymn / C Average / The M.O.D.S. at the Brotherhood

May
2

westernhymn

Western Hymn (OLY) has really got something going. They’re great. Picked up a few of their self-released LP to send to friends. They’ve just started a West Coast tour. Read more »

May 1st, 2010

May
2

Ten Volt Shock

Ten Volt Shock – “The Vexed”

Audacity – “Mode”
Shark Pants – “Donkey Wishbone”
The Tim Version – “Shin Splints”

Cloak/Dagger – “Billions Millions”
Toys That Kill – “Run Away…”
Shook Ones – “For Flannel”

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April 24th, 2010

Apr
25

Pink Razors

Pink Razors – “Geometric Park”

Banner Pilot – “Losing Daylight”
Mouthbreather – “The Nazarene”
Dear Landlord – “I Live in Hell”

RVIVR – “Grandma”
The Bomb – “Never Want to See You Again”
Monikers – “Papers”

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April 17th, 2010

Apr
18

One Man Army

One Man Army – “The Tune of the Leisure Pace”

Something Fierce – “Second Son”
Good Luck – “Come Home”
Shorebirds – “Olympia Autumn Morning”

Danger Death Ray! – “Brother Don’t Go to Mesquite”
Grabass Charlestons – “Misery Loves Company”
Psyched to Die – “Five Year Plan”

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April 10th, 2010

Apr
11

The Aquarium

The Aquarium – “Performer”

Parts + Labor – “Wedding in a Wasteland”
Brainworms – “Phat Intentions”
The Lawrence Arms – “Requiem Revisited”

Dynamite Arrows – “Hobo Clown Love Song”
Good Luck – “Sleep With No Bad Dreams”
Shang-a-Lang – “The Woods”

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Know Your Saints

Apr
10

Know Your Saints is from Seattle, WA. Read more »

April 3rd, 2010

Apr
4

Good Luck

Good Luck – “Stars Were Exploding”

Dead to Me – “Special Professional”
Shorebirds – “D.O.A.”
Tubers – “Ambulate”

The Aquarium – “Battle of the Bands”
Lemuria – “Sophomore”
The Cute Lepers – “Fall to Pieces”

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March 27th 2010

Mar
28

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Mean Jeans – “I Was Born On a Saturday Night”

Leatherface – “Never Say Goodbye”
Tiltwheel – “Song That Used to Be Called Aaron’s Song”
Tim Barry – “Sorrow Flats”

RVIVR – “Life Moves”
The Cute Lepers – “World of Surprise”
Shorebirds – “Upside Down”

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