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What You Got  |
What You Got Fest is over! Check out these articles Willamatte Weekly The Stranger The Olympian The Volcano |
kickball |
Kickball are everything that is vibrant and exciting about DIY music. Their fourth release, Everything Is a Miracle Nothing Is a Miracle Everything Is, is an indie gem, equally melodic and danceable, that captures the endearingly awkward energy the Olympia trio bring live to living rooms and small clubs across the country." - The Stranger |
the solvents |
Manresa Castle captures love at its best and at its most damaging with an album that is both a chronicle of recovery and a confession of vulnerability. |
super duo |
Secret Therapy is a 27 track time capsule record of three talented musicians recorded in 99/00. Jenny Jenkins and Jen Kliese founded Super Duo in '97 to be joined later by Kelly Coyle; this is their heartfelt-pop legacy. |
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Bicycle Records @ The Seattle Folklife Festival
We just got back from a weekend at the Seattle Folklife Festival where June Madrona, Polka Dot Dot Dot, and The Nextdoor Neighbors (who are going into the studio to record their first album for release on Bicycle Records in June.)
Highlights for me included...
-The Hail Seizures and Chin Up Merryweather set up at the informal "Camp Olympia" outside of the children's museum.
-Every Polka Dot Dot Dot show.
-Seeing The Nextdoor Neighbors play at the EMP Sky Church for a crowd of 500-600 kids. That was crazy.
-Hollow Earth radio was on hand broadcasting many of the performances and discussion panels. More on this later!
-Ross
jenny jenkins - oventoucher
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"Like a flightless bird that tries to fly again / somehow I want love so bad even though I don't want love."
As in the cover art, Jenny Jenkins reaches for the frosted cake of love again and again, undeterred by the obvious dangers of the flaming oven. And so, with bravery and brutal honesty, she confronts the subject of love while joined by a cast of talented olympians including Derrick Johnson (leton mite, unwound), Andrew Dorsett (lake), Jen Klise (superduo), and Vince Brown (tune stranglers).
june madrona
June Madrona's fourth album Battlegrounds is now available!
"The unique instrumentation lends these wistful, perceptive meditations on love, loss and youth a sense of otherworldliness; the tangible presence of those worries that nag at the back of your mind; the shapes you catch moving at the corner of your eye; the secret aches that burn the heart and sting the eye."- James O'Connell (www.rocklouder.co.uk)
polka dot dot dot
"Jordan O' Jordan, Miss Spindleheart, and Onyx of Olympia are all Pacific Northwest musicians, but their band started oddly, in New Zealand in January... by the end of Polka Dot Dot Dot's first tour, the New Zealand equivalent of NPR had noticed it. Which stands to reason. The group is awesome." -local cut