There is so much awesome music going on… here are some picks for this year… 5 GREAT ALBUMS FROM 2015 Read more →

There is so much awesome music going on… here are some picks for this year… 5 GREAT ALBUMS FROM 2015 Read more →
At the start of the fiscal year (that’s a joke) we’re launching a bold new initiative (that’s a joke, too) to share Spotify playlists of the jams we’re enjoying through the month. You can browse these songs and listen to any of them online. Pretty awesome. Lucas gets all the credit for this brilliant idea… for real. Read more →
Milk Music – “New Lease On Love” from Cruise Your Illusion (Fat Possum)
Golden Grrrls – “Take Your Time” from Golden Grrrls (Slumberland)
Sugar Stems – “Get to You” from Can’t Wait (Dirtnap)
Psychic Ills – “I Get By” from One Track Mind (Sacred Bones)
Low Culture – “I Feel Your Ghost” from Screens (Dirtnap)
Hop Along – “Tibetan Pop Stars” from Get Disowned (Hot Green)
Toys That Kill – “Freddy and His Mother” from Fambly 42 (Recess)
Swearin’ – “Hundreds and Thousands” from Swearin’ (Salinas)
Lemuria – “Varoom Allure” from their Varoom Allure 7″ (Bridge Nine)
Frank is the producer, dj, and whatnot at Campfire Island (this here music project). He lives in Olympia, WA with his two kids, two dogs and 21 fish. … I would just like to say how super appreciative of everyone who contributes to Campfire Island – as a guest, getting interviewed, updating the calendar, hooking us up with press passes, taking… Read more →
Matt Welch started Transitions Art Gallery (the best all-ages space ever) in Tampa, FL. In addition to legendary pre-FEST events, Transitions had shows all year round, as well as art openings and dance parties. Matt used to sing in the band Devout and also played in Anthem 88. At the end of 2012, Transitions ended it’s 8 year run and re-opened under the… Read more →
We have a radio show every week on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA. Susan and Timothy Grisham were our guests on this show for the second hour! Frankie B did the first set.
Grabass Charlestons – “The Quiet Life” from Dale and the Careeners (No Idea – 2012)
Coping – “Somewhere in Skokie” from NOPE (Protagonist – 2012)
Thee Oh Sees – “Hang A Picture” from Putrifiers II (In The Red – 2012)
Swearin’ – “Just” from Swearin’ (Salinas – 2012)
The Men – “Animal” from Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones – 2012)
RVIVR – “Resilient Bastard” from their Dirty Water EP (Yo Yo – 2011)
Hop Along – “Kids on the Boardwalk” from Get Disowned (Salinas – 2012)
Nu Sensae – “Spit Gifting” from Sundowning (Suicide Squeeze – 2012)
Campfire Island has a weekly radio show on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA. It’s pretty rad, honestly. Here’s our playlist from a “2012 releases” show by Frank.
Shores – “Weak Trees” from Leavening (No Idea)
Broken Water – “Drown” from Tempest (Hardly Art)
Ty Segall – “They Told Me Too” from Twins (Drag City)
Cult of Youth – “Golden Age” from Love Will Prevail (Sacred Bones)
Thee Oh Sees – “Hang a Picture” from Putrifiers II (In The Red)
Screaming Females – “Expire” from Ugly (Don Giovanni)
The Men – “Cube” from Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
Campfire Island has a wicked radio show on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA. Mackenzie and Frank were the hosts this time and Whitney Evanson was our guest!
Erica Freas – “Spider Song” from Belly (Rumbletowne)
Hop Along – “No Good Al Joad” from Get Disowned (Hot Green)
Kite Party – “Spirit Gum” from Baseball Season (Animal Style)
Dads – “Big Bag of Sandwiches” from American Radass (Flannel Gurl)
Know Your Saints – “Sky Scrapers Smoke Signals” from their Split 7″ with Great Apes (Say-10)
Shores – “Greater Than” from Leavening (No Idea)
Landlord – “Brown Bag Lunch” from Beneath The Wheel (Recess)
Campfire Island has a totally awesome radio show every Saturday night on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA. Frankie B did the first two hours, Meredith (ECHODRONE) did the shoegaze bonus hour!
Kite Party – “Jaws of Life” from Baseball Season (Animal Style)
Hop Along – “Trouble Found Me” from Get Disowned (Hot Green)
Swearin’ – “Movie Star” from Swearin’ (Salinas)
Broken Water – “Orange Blossom Stains” from Tempest (Hardly Art)
Cult of Youth – “Garden of Delights” from Love Will Prevail (Sacred Bones)
Transzmitors – “A Little Bit Closer” from Concrete Depression 7″ (La Ti Da)
Mind Spiders – “Join Us Now” from Meltdown (Dirtnap)
Curmudgeon, Nu Sensae, Sick Fix, Cerce, Hop Along, Converge, Verse, Mindset, La Bella, Ten Thousand Leagues, Beau Navire, Darto, Dreamdecay, Criminal Code, Red Dons, The Mob, The Estranged, Adelit@s, Arctic Flowers, Siren Songs, Good Luck, The Ergs, Margy Pepper, Your Heart Breaks, Nuzzle, Sore Eyelids, The Sea The Sea, Embrace, Palatka, Shikari, Harriet The Spy Read more →
Gag, Hop Along, Jason Clackley, Margy Pepper, Iron Lung, WALLS, Dead Language, Duck Little Brother Duck!, The Sky Above And Earth Below, Carrion Spring, Nails, Converge, Torche, No Babies, The Mob, From Ashes Rise, Amanda Woodward, Funeral Diner, La Quiete, Pg. 99, Shikari, Enemy Soil, Reversal of Man, Mohinder, Heroin, Trial, Struggle, Groundwork, Career Suicide, Look Back and Laugh, Infest, Shotmaker, Embrace, Slint, Native Nod, The Evens Read more →
Weekly radio love from Frankie B… Hop Along, The Energy, Bad Banana, Airfix Kits, Algernon Cadwallader, White Lung, forgetters, Something Fierce, Swingin’ Utters, Big Kids, New Creases, The Shitty Limits, How Dare You, Joyce Manor, Used Kids, Boys and Sex, Pg. 99, Nomos, Fucked Up… Timothy Grisham (Happy Noose) was our guest… Cro Mags, Rites of Spring, Happy Noose, Joy Division, The Blitzz, Happy Noose, The Cure, Avengers, The Accused, Agnostic Front, Happy Noose, Blood on the Wall, Yuck, Dirty Beaches, The Bug, Happy Noose, Leyton Buzzards, Orange Juice, Sick of It All, Read more →
Street Eaters, Mind Eraser, Torche, Fucked Up, The Hadituptoheres, Tranzmitors, The Energy, Thee Oh Sees, Title Tracks, P.S. Eliot, Matty Pop Chart, Hop Along, Big Kids, Swingin’ Utters, Billy Raygun, Used Kids, Joyce Manor, The State Lottery, Bad Banana… Eric Stein ripped it up again as our guest dj for the second hour: Cut Outs, The Feelies, Fastbacks, Discharge, Born Against, Rudimentary Peni, Toy Love, The Saints, ICE 9, Shop Assistants, Minor Threat, 7 Seconds, Youth Brigade, The Bags, The Skinnies, Executives, Testors, Family Fodder, Bye Bye Turbin, Plastic Bertrand, Spizz Energi, Minutemen, Read more →
Nicki Thompson hosted the show.. purely awesome… Cute Lepers, Social Studies, Little Lungs, Good Luck, Hop Along, X-Ray Spex, Ann Baretta, Carrie Nations, Bass Drum of Death, Pangea, The Casual Dots, The Slits, Council of Lions, Le Tigre, The Dapper Cadavers, Defiance Ohio, Rosa, Lost Cherrees, Mutoid Men, The Muffs, The State Lottery, Teenage Cool Kids, The Coathangers, The Soviettes, Shannon and the Clams, Cloud Nothings, Times New Viking, Love Is All, Balkans, Black Tambourine, Red Aunts, Superchunk, Wavves, No Joy Read more →