I am still loving music so much. There is a ton of great stuff to listen to out there, but here are my picks to highlight for 2016! Read more →

I am still loving music so much. There is a ton of great stuff to listen to out there, but here are my picks to highlight for 2016! Read more →
DES ARK played at Barboza in Seattle with SAINTSENECA. Click through to the videos from our Machines with Problems project. Read more →
There is so much awesome music going on… here are some picks for this year… 5 GREAT ALBUMS FROM 2015 Read more →
No Age – “Everybody’s Down” from Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat – 2007)
Des Ark – “Bonne Chance, Asshole” from Don’t Rock the Boat Sink the Fucker (Lovitt – 2011)
Royal Headache – “Honey Joy” from Royal Headache (Goner – 2011)
Broken Water – “Heart Strings” from Peripheral Star (Perennial/Radio is Down – 2011)
Something Fierce – “Teenage Ruins” from There Are No Answers (Dirtnap – 2009)
White Lung – “Atlanta” from It’s The Evil (Deranged – 2010)
Big Kids – “Parents Are Still a Handful” from Hoop Dreams (Protagonist – 2010)
Broken Water, White Lung, Des Ark, Pissed Jeans, Brilliant Colors, Royal Headache, Acid Baby Jesus, Sickoids, Torche, Worn in Red, Nu Sensae, Libyans, Swearin’, Toys That Kill, Mind Spiders, Secret Prostitutes, Landlord, Cassette, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Rites of Spring, Big Black, Action Patrol, Shotmaker, Mohinder, The Locust, Milemarker, Second Story Window, I Hate Myself, Karp, Bitch Magnet, Guided By Voices, Liza Kate, Nana Grizol, Cara Beth Satalino, Braid, Car vs. Driver, Boy’s Life, Beefeater Read more →
The Mercury Program – “Chez Viking” from Chez Viking (Lovitt)
Bomb the Music Industry – “Wednesday Night Drinkball” from Scrambles (Asian Man / Quote Unquote)
Landlord – “Strange But True” from Beneath The Wheel (Recess)
Swearin’ – “Divine Mimosa” from Swearin’ (Salinas)
Cara Beth Satalino – “Gift Horse” from The Good Ones (Bakery Outlet)
Cassette – “Bridge Building” from Shining Like a New Dime (Bakery Outlet)
Liza Kate – “Minding My Own” from Don’t Let the Dogs (Holidays for Quince)
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Tragedy, Margy Pepper, Against Me!, Lebenden Toten, Chin up, Meriwether!, RVIVR, Dogjaw, Between Earth and Sky, Paint It Black, Outlook, Cro-Mags, Weekend Nachos, Sojourner, Thou, Tear It Up, Mindset, The Mob, No Statik, No Tolerance, Best Coast, Teenage Cool Kids, Moss Icon, Egg Hunt, Don Martin 3, Twelve Hour Turn, Pity Sex, Torche, Parts & Labor, Verse, M.L.I.W., Des Ark, Lumber Lung, Punch, Big Eyes, Big Kids, Fugazi, Strikeforce Diablo, Treepeople, Lemuria, Rites of Spring, Portraits of Past, La Quiete, Lync Read more →
Kepi Ghoulie, Fungi Girls, Crystal Stilts, Accordion Crimes, Dark Ages, Career Suicide, Night Birds, Thee Oh Sees, Pterodactyl, The Death Set, Psychic Ills, Dead to Me, The Copyrights, Punch, Ceremony, Hawks and Doves, Low Threat Profile, The Maxines, Luca Brasi, Mauser, Passion Killers, Port Teens, Slight Slappers, Timeshares, Wavelets, Mecca Normal, Firehose, Des Ark, The Raincoats, Smoking Popes, Christie Front Drive, Antioch Arrow, Scream, Unrest, Die Kreuzen, Sleater-Kinney, Nuisance, Angel Hair, Fugazi, The Mr. T Experience Read more →
Frankie B is a total hassle… He does Campfire Island (this website). You can find out more about this nerd in the “About The Show” part of Campfire Island. … I would just like to say how super appreciative I am of everyone giving me “Top 5” lists this year! Here’s mine … Read more →
Ginger Alford is the super rad person that is 1/3 of the super awesome band, GOOD LUCK. So there. She sings half of everything, I suppose, and plays bass. Ginger was also in the band, ONE REASON – and her new band is TRAVELING. Once, her and Paul Baribeau got toured together playing only BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN covers. Awesome. … after… Read more →
Loma Prieta, Good Luck, Lenguas Largas, Know Your Saints, Des Ark, Shores, P.S. Eliot, Rational Animals, Ex Wife, Night Birds, The Energy, Ten Volt Shock, Stolen Parts, Deathrats, Trainwreck, Punch, Basement, Omegas, Banner Pilot, JFA, Bog People, Ramones, Bone Sickness, Vile Gash, Final Conflict, Suckdog, Sex Vid, Restarts, Living Eyes, Living Eyes, Dead Boys, Gun Outfit, The Spits, St. Dad, Radon, The Creamers Read more →
Campfire Island has a weekly PUNK radio show on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA playing Punk, Post-Punk and Hardcore every SATURDAY starting at 10pm! Izzi and Kevin hosted this show. Fucked Up, Something Fierce, Western Hymn, The Marked Men, Lemuria, RVIVR, The Measure [SA], Screaming Females, Gun Outfit, Crystal Stilts, Wavves, Milk Music, Parts & Labor, Bad Banana, Yikes! A Lion, Songs For Moms, Vena Cava, Des Ark, Dan Padilla, Moss Icon, Lync, Moving… Read more →
Campfire Island has a weekly PUNK radio show on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA playing Punk, Post-Punk and Hardcore every SATURDAY starting at 10pm! Bridget hosted this show. Cassette, Lemuria, Bad Banana, RVIVR, Des Ark, The Measure [SA], Good Luck, Broken Water, Witches, Andalusians, Mika Miko, Deathrats, Big Eyes, White Lung, Son Skull, Screaming Females, Beat Happening, Rainer Maria, Le Tigre, Sleater-Kinney,… Read more →
Cute Lepers, Big Kids, Chinese Telephones, Mind Spiders, Algernon Cadwallader, The Pasties, Matty Pop Chart, White Lung, Tragedy, Xerxes, Des Ark, The Aquarium, Teenage Cool Kids, The New Trust, Medications, Brasilia, Naked Raygun, Shudder to Think, Samiam, Universal Order of Armageddon, Carbomb, Heroin, Unwound, The Make Up, Lungfish, Bad Religion, Jawbreaker, Bad Brains, Husker Du, Heavenly, Kicking Giant, Embrace, Rein Sanction, Jeffery Lewis, The Old Haunts, Bauhaus Read more →
Nicki Thompson was the guest dj for this awesome show! Defiance Ohio, Cloud Nothings, Tartufi, Young Pioneers, The Breeders, Sleater-Kinney, Big Eyes, Songs for Moms, Nice Purse, The Taxpayers, Cap’n’Jazz, The Jam, Mischief Brew, Des Ark, 1905, Grass Widow, X-Ray Spex, The Gossip, Now Now Every Children, Brilliant Colors, Council of Lions, Lost Cherrees, Shannon and the Clams, Street Eaters, Is/Is, Rasputina, Pangea, Teengenerate, Machine Go Boom, The Bundles, Dark Dark Dark, The Black, Vivian Girls, RVIVR Read more →
Pygmy Lush, Daniel Striped Tiger, Nobunny, Mind Spiders, The New Trust, Parts & Labor, Potential Johns, Des Ark, Todd Congelliere, Needles // Pins, The Max Levine Ensemble, Vapid, The Energy, Moonhearts, Chain and the Gang, Tragedy, Clorox Girls, Ex wife, Brutal Knights, Native Nod, Constantine Sankathi, Hüsker Dü, Bread and Circuits, Bikini Kill, Current, Gray Matter, Jawbreaker, True North, Rites of Spring, Seam, Treepeople, I-Spy, Fugazi, Universal Order of Armageddon, Built to Spill Read more →
ex wife, Needles//Pins, Total Control, St. Dad, Brutal Knights, Cola Freaks, White Lung, Des Ark, Pygmy Lush, Daniel Striped Tiger, Paint It Black, Canadian Rifle, Chinese Telephones, Moonhearts, Clorox Girls, Vapid, Busy Signals, The Marked Men, Night Birds, At The Drive In, Cap’n’Jazz, Archers of Loaf, Rain, Husker Du, Battalion of Saints, Shudder to Think, The Halo Benders, Sleater Kinney, Avail, Jawbreaker, Fugazi, Spoke, Radon, Palatka, Minutemen, Lync, Slant 6, Even As We Speak, Read more →
The Marked Men, Pygmy Lush, Lemuria, Lenguas Largas, White Wires, No Age, The Ergs, Des Ark, Paint It Black, White Lung, Liquid Limbs, Western Hymn, Parts & Labor, Vivian Girls, Big Eyes, Swing Ding Amigos, Smokejumper, The Measure [SA], Nana Grizol, The Exploding Hearts, Shark Pants, Too Many Daves… Joe Barresi was our guest for the second set: Teenage Cool Kids, Huggy Bear, Lifetime, The Wipers, Jawbreaker, Spoonboy, Shorebirds, Swing Kids, At the Drive-In, Refused, Mountain Man, His Hero Is Gone , Leatherface, Shook Ones, Braid, The Ambulars, One Reason, P.S. Eliot Read more →
Campfire Island has a weekly PUNK radio show on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA playing Punk, Post-Punk and Hardcore every SATURDAY starting at 10pm! Des Ark, Cheap Time, The Marked Men, Lenguas Largas, Big Eyes, The Parting Gifts, Pygmy Lush, Shark Pants, Too Many Daves, Swing Ding Amigos, Touche Amore, Turboslut, No Statik, Bone Sickness, Nana Grizol, Telekinesis, Parts & Labor, Marnie Stern… Matt Lebens (Wisdom Teef, Radio is Down)was our guest for the second set! Radio is Down is an Olympia-based record label, their recent releases include the Broken Water CD Whet and the Wisdom Teef LP… Bhava, Drive Like Jehu, Broken Water, Early Humans, Okker, Tiger Shower Caps, Dead Low Tide, EX WIVES, Jackonuts, The Jesus Lizard, Suzanne’Silver, Red X Red M, Wisdom Teef
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Defeater, Fucked Up, No Age, Deathrats, Torche, Something Fierce, Fellow Project, RVIVR, Comadre, New Bruises, Dan Padilla, Wavves, Screaming Females, Des Ark, The Anchor, Soul Control, Daniel Striped Tiger, Kid Dynamite, Man Afraid, Car vs. Driver, Bad Religion, The Trigger Quintet, Samiam, Rocket From The Crypt, Blank, Fugazi, The Exploding Hearts, Five-O, Minutemen, Don Martin 3, Phleg Camp, Milemarker, Engine Down Read more →