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 →
Tiny Moving Parts – “Dakota” from This Couch is Long & Full of Friendship (Kind of Like Records / Black Numbers – 2013)
Joyce Manor – “Holiday Heart” from their Split 7″ with Summer Vacation (Muy Authentico – 2011)
Algernon Cadwallader – “Fun” from their Fun 7″ (Hot Green / Protagonist – 2010)
Parasol – “Firecracker” from Crush Season 7″ (Puzzle Pieces – 2011)
Titus Andronicus – “Anxiety Block” from their Split 7″ with Free Energy (XL Recordings – 2010)
Free Energy – “Something in Common” from the Free Energy 7″ (DFA – 2009)
The Cribs – “So Hot Now” from their Split 7″ with The Thermals (Kill Rock Stars – 2010)
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)
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 →
I can safely say that 2012 was the single worst year of my life for many different reasons, but it was a damn good year for music. It has also been great doing the radio show with Frankie B. He is a really really good dude and a good dad. Anyway, it was really hard to choose the best ones… Read more →
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)
Saintseneca, Dikembe, RVIVR, Boneshakers, Good Luck, Joyce Manor, Tubers, Big Awesome, Broadcaster, Lemuria, Calculator, We Were Skeletons, Toys That Kill, Dads, Grabass Charlestons, Hysterics, Destino Final, Brain Tumors, Iron Lung, Carrion Spring, Solutions, Solutions, Wild Moth, Adventures, Comadre, Bedroom Eyes, Whirr, Anne, Charles Bronson, Spazz, Infest, Palatka, Orchid, Tristan Tzara, Yaphet Kotto, Enoch Ardon, Battle of Wolf 359, Agnostic Front, Read more →
Campfire Island has a weekly radio show on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA. Hear it live on Saturday nights from 10pm-midnight. This time, Frankie B picked all the music…
CREEM – “Think Twice” from the CREEM 12″ (Katorga Works)
Mind Spiders – “You Are Dead” from Meltdown (Dirtnap)
Swearin’ – “Just” from Swearin’ (Salinas)
Torche – “Kicking” from Harmonicraft (Volcom)
Toys That Kill – “I Don’t Wanna Be Around” from Fambly 42 (Recess)
White Lung – “I Rot” from Sorry (Deranged)
Royal Headache – “Honey Joy” from Royal Headache (Goner / What’s Your Rupture)
Finally settling down to write a review of Chaos in Tejas this year, which was crazy, hot as hell, and amazing. So many great bands playing at least one or more shows in Austin, Texas. Thousands of punks, sweating, beer spraying everywhere (sigh), yummy food, swimming holes, running around downtown trying to see the bands you want to see, and… Read more →
Wiccans – “Witches” from Skullduggery (Katorga Works)
The Boston Strangler – “Gonna Make You Pay” from Primitive (Fun With Smack)
Hoax – “Fagget” from the Hoax 7″ (Deranged / Katorga Works)
Magrudergrind – “Cognition” from Crusher EP (To Live a Lie)
Grass Widow – “Advice” from Internal Logic (HLR)
Creepoid – “Staircase” from Horse Heaven (No Idea)
Gun Outfit – “In The Dark” from Dim Light (Post Present Medium)
Toys That Kill, Joyce Manor, The New Trust, Creepoid, Landlord, Black Sparrow Press, Future Virgins, Cheap Time, Outer Minds, Grass Widow, The Men, Caseracer, The Deadly Snakes, House Boat, Nobunny, Olehole, Deep Sleep, The Boston Strangler, Wiccans, The Lawrence Arms, Unwound, The Nation of Ulysses, CockSparrer, Lungfish, Los Crudos, Samiam, Garden Variety, Tight Bro’s From Way Back When, The Butchies, Chino Horde, Moonraker, The Mr. T Experience, Carbomb, Neutral Milk Hotel, Chisel, Pg. 99, Pinhead Gunpowder Read more →
Campfire Island has a weekly radio show on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA – and it totally rules! We play punk, post-punk and hardcore – plus anything Shannen wants to.
Replica – “You Can’t Stop the Weather” from the Replica demo (self-released)
Future Virgins – “No Echo” from Western Problems (Starcleaner / Plan-It-X)
Joyce Manor – “Comfortable Clothes” from Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired (Asian Man)
The Men – “Please Don’t Go Away” from Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
Hunting Party – “Red Summer” from the Hunting Party Demo (self-released)
Magrudergrind – “Leech” from Crusher (To Live a Lie)
Double Negative – “Knife on a String” from Daydreamnation (Sorry State)
Campfire Island has a weekly radio show on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA. Frankie B hosted this show and Seven was our guest for the second set!
Creepoid – “Spirit Birds” from Horse Heaven (No Idea)
Pity Sex – “Flower Girl” from Dark World (self-released)
Joyce Manor – “Bride of Usher” from Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired (Asian Man)
Ex-Wife – “One Thousand Years” from their June EP (self-released)
The Men – “Cube” from Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
Super Wild Horses – “I Was Blind” from Super Wild Horses (Aarght!)
The Deadly Snakes – “Pirate Cowboy” from I’m Not Your Soldier Anymore (In The Red)
Campfire Island has a weekly radio show on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA. Mack hosted the first hour and Fajr Wilson (MORGAN AND THE ORGAN DONORS, SISTERHOOD, HELLWOMAN) was our guest for the second hour!
Code Orange Kids – “Walls (We Lose Each Other)” from Cycles (Mayfly)
(photo of Code Orange Kids by Tanner Douglass Photography)
Born Against – “Mary & Child” from Nine Patriotic Hymns for Children (Vermiform)
Soil – “Breathe” from To Wither (self-released)
Drug Culture – “To Cope” from their demo (self-released)
Outlook – “Not In My Name” from Our Time Is Now (self-released)
Baader Brains – “Year Zero” from The Complete Unfinished Works of the Young Tigers (Clean Plate)
Torches to Rome – “Young Arsenal” from Torches to Rome (Ebullition)
Bread and Circuits – “The End of History” from Bread and Circuits (Ebullition)
Campfire Island has a weekly punk radio show on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA. Shannen and Frank were the djs this week.
P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. – “You Ain’t the One” from Make It Through the Night (Doomtown Sounds / Static Age)
Screaming Females – “Tell Me No” from Ugly (Don Giovanni)
The Men – “Animal” from Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
Outer Minds – “Conversation” from Outer Minds (Southpaw)
Brutal Knights – “Fight You In My Mind” from Total Rebellion (P Trash)
Dark Ages – “Out Of This World” from Can America Survive? (Sorry State)
Sonic Avenues – “Late Summer Goner” from Television Youth (Dirtnap)
Campfire Island has a weekly radio show in Olympia, WA on KAOS 89.3FM. Shannen Hansen (Hysterics) was our co-host this week and she played a set garage & psych rock from the late 1960s and 1970s. Frankie B did the second hour of music.
Rodriguez – “I Wonder” from Cold Fact (Light in the Attic – 2009 Re)
– the photo of Rodriguez is from the amazing website Underground Bee (Chicago, IL)
Grace Slick & The Great Society – “Sally Go ‘Round The Roses” from Conspicuous Only In Its Absence (Columbia – 2008 Re)
Index – “Israeli Blues” from Index (Valord – 2004 Re)
Pisces – “Sam” from A Lovely Sight (B music / Numero – 2009 Re)
Troggs – “Our Love Will Still Be There” from From Nowhere (Repertoire – 2003 Re)
Question Mark and the Mysterians – “96 Tears” from 96 Tears (Cameo Parkway – 2011 Re)
Love – “Can’t Explain” from Best of Love (Rhino – 1980)
Campfire Island has a weekly radio show on KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA airing every Saturday from 10pm to Midnight (Pacific). Frankie B hosted this show with TWO guests: Mackenzie Menkins and Michael Friese.
Outer Minds – “Always in My Head” from Outer Minds (Southpaw)
Glass Hits – “God Hates Lincoln, Nebraska and So Do I” and “Exit Strategies” from Pioneers Get The Arrows, Settlers Get the Land (self-released)
Mind Spiders – “Upside Down” and “Skull-eyed” from Meltdown (Dirtnap)
Ceremony – “Community Service” from Zoo (Matador)
Hoax – “Stuck” from the Hoax Demo (self released)
Culo – “Neighborhood Watch” from Toxic Vision (Deranged)
Double Negative – “Stop Growing” from The Wonderful and Frightening World Of … (No Way)
High Dive, La Dispute, Big Kids, Fucked Up, Defeater, High Tension Wires, Joyce Manor, The Ergs, Fleshies, Lemuria, Die Hoffnung, Iron Chic, Brutal Knights, The Marked Men, Jumpers, Ex Wife, forgetters, Dead to Me, Lenguas Largas, The Exploding Hearts, Cap’n’Jazz, Husker Du, Firehose, Crayon, The Halo Benders, Fugazi, Lync, Car vs. Driver, The Explosion, Don Martin 3, Dan Padilla, Current, Get Up Kids, Embrace,
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The Maxines, Pygmy Lush, Fucked Up, Lemuria, RVIVR, Swingin’ Utters, Billy Raygun, Broken Water, Chain and the Gang, Daniel Striped Tiger, Algernon Cadwallader, Bad Banana, Sharkpact, The Pine Hill Haints, Defeater, High Tension Wires, Know Your Saints, Street Eaters, Western Hymn, Thee Oh Sees, Punch, Bomb the Music Industry, Ampere, Joyce Manor, Chuck Ragan, Waxahatchee, The Underground Railroad to Candyland, Dead to Me, Samiam, The Copyrights, Good Luck, Big Kids, Criminal Culture, Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommes, Parts & Labor Read more →