Rogue West African prison-funk from Adrian Orange and his rambling pack of peyote-laced thieves. These are outlaw anthems of life on the margins; Favella-core Latin American punk-hymns to Qaddafi and ...

Almond Joy are the celestial comet heading the West Coast Fog Pop Revival. Featuring a cohort of Bay Area scene stars Jordan Almond (Rays, The World), as well as Muzzy Moskowitz (Froogie's Groovies, ...

"American Nudism or Gabriel Gutierrez is the former front person of Lysol. Done with starving on tour in the American underground he has settled in Olympia where he can bathe in synthesized chocolate ...

WOLF COLONEL is JASON ANDERSON. JASON ANDERSON IS WOLF COLONEL, dedicated to noisy pop rockin' and granulated sugar hookery. the previous WOLF COLONEL albums "Vikings Of Mint" and "The Castle" were ...

With six officially released albums, two more in the can, four probably-never-to-see-the-light-of-day records in his closet, a few live albums on the shelf-culled from literally five years of ...

Beat Happening reach into their bag of goodies and pull out a winner. One of their most requested songs is seen in a new light. This version of "Crashing Through" was recorded in 1986, produced by ...

Big City - "Liquid Times". A Recurring Daydream on zero gasoline Pixelating to exaltation on a big city night cantaloupe runs hard in the dungeoun then car home at 6am. "Firestarter walk with me" you ...

Bobby Birdman is the ultraego of west coast musician Rob Kieswetter and he graces us with his musical interludes on "Don't Walk Away" b/w "Dub Walk". Born in San Diego, raised in Nevada City, braised ...

BOBBY BIRDMAN has two full length records of beautiful glitch-folk music on Hush Records. "Heart Caves" is his first foray into completely electronic territory. On "Heart Caves", we learn of BOBBY's ...

Silas Blak is a unique force in Seattle's hip-hop scene, spitting complex bars about subjects that rappers seldom approach, let alone attack head-on. Known for his work in formative Pacific Northwest ...

Khaela Maricich is THE BLOW, also known to some as GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY OF THE VOLCANO, also as a member of the DUB NARCOTIC studio gang. She makes many arts in the various tents, forts and ...

A CHAIN & THE GANG FAQ WHO IS CHAIN & THE GANG? Chain & the Gang are singers Ian Svenonius, Katie Alice Greer, and other musicians including Brett Lyman (M'Lady's records), Fiona Campbell (Coasting, ...

The discussion of starting a band that would later be called Christmas started in a Polish dive bar. Their _rst single for K, "Namiot" [DBN118] would be the next big pop hit - if people only knew ...

You may have experienced ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO'S MALAIKAT DAN SINGA as an unexpected live force, pushing up through the earth like daffodils in late winter; or maybe you're familiar with their ...

You may have experienced ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO'S MALAIKAT DAN SINGA as an unexpected live force, pushing up through the earth like daffodils in late winter; or maybe you're familiar with their ...

Vinyl-only instrumental and dub raw. You may need a special tool to carve a deeper groove in your turntable or jukebox in order to play this rhythm method by Dub Narcotic Sound System. Makes your ...

"Shomer Salaam" is a creative approach to conflict resolution. Politics don't work. Religion got us into this mess. The military is powerless. Economic sanctions only deepen the divide. It seems like ...

ASHLEY ERIKSSON (darling to many for her work with LAKE) has achieved a status few artists ever know: her song "Island Song" can be hummed by almost any teenager in the United States (a surprising ...

For years Feeling Figures have tinkered away at the edge of the Montreal scene, never fitting neatly into the ebb and flow of the city's cultural trends or its more traditionalist camps. A ...

The era of fish narc has dawned - - - cool fire and warm passion and bad af. Decades in the making, fruiting body [KLP295] is fish narc's third solo album in as many years. A high-security prism of ...

The era of fish narc has dawned - - - cool fire and warm passion and bad af. Decades in the making, fruiting body [KLP295] is fish narc's third solo album in as many years. A high-security prism of ...

For his first release on K, "In My Cave" b/w "I Know" - 7" Generifus, aka, Spencer Sult, delivers a love song to comfort and personal growth. In his own words: "These two songs are connected through ...

Ghost Bitch, like most suburban-bred "American" girls, has followed the traditional Britney Spears to Rowland S. Howard trajectory. On her 10th birthday, her wish came true when she was given an ...

Created in 2010 by vocalist/guitarist Jem Marie as a solo project, the Ghost Ease evolved into a Portland, OR-based three-piece with the addition of drummer Nsayi Matingou in 2012 and bassist ...

"In my book, one of the sharpest young intellectuals we have out there." - Dr. Michael Eric Dyson ISSKOOTSIK (Before Here Was Here) is the debut album from author, activist, attorney, and Native ...

Heaven sent with a halo bent. This is the second of three albums by The Halo Benders (Don't Tell Me Now was originally released in 1996). Doug Martsch (Built to Spill, Treepeople) joins forces with ...

Initial collaboration between Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening and Doug Martsch of Built to Spill. These recording sessions at Olympia, WA Dub Narcotic Studio took place in 1993, just prior to the ...

Initial collaboration between Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening and Doug Martsch of Built to Spill. These recording sessions at Olympia, WA Dub Narcotic Studio took place in 1993, just prior to the ...

The Rebels not in is the third album by The Halo Benders, released in 1998. The album has been remastered and will now be available as a LONG PLAYING PHONOGRAPH RECORD (LP) and CASSETTE TAPE. The ...

Hartle Road is a co-release presented by K and Perennial. Pompeii Studios, the homebrew mecca that created MAXX II Is Located in the American South, a place that, like its namesake, is burning up. ...

Winston Hytwr is a co-release presented by K and Perennial. Born in Columbus, Ohio in March 1993, Winston Hightower is a prolific home recording artist with an expansive discography that crawls ...

Last autumn Calvin Johnson took a train from Providence, RI, to Burlington, IA; naturally he stopped off in Chicago, IL for three days to check in with Mike, Dan, Josh, Hunter: MAHJONGG. They had ...

THE HIVE DWELLERS new album is the essence of rock'n'roll moved from the garage to the basement to the rec room and then back out into the wild. Calvin Johnson plays guitar and sings his songs in ...

The Hive Dwellers are a small grouping of Pacific Northwest natives, led by the large sound of one Calvin Johnson. On their latest musical effort, [DBN126] - "Lynch the Swan" b/w Selector Dub ...

On their second album the Hive Dwellers make with a low, wailing expression of sorrow (or suffering). Moanin' [KLP249] is a collection of field recordings made at Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, ...

Sun Q is an album by electronica artist IQU, originally released by Sonic Boom Recordings in 2004. With the playful side of electronica music intact, K.O.'s virtuoso, operatic theremin playing and ...

'Teenage Dream' has been a staple in IQU's live set for a while, a beautiful, slice of multi-genre electronica complete with upright bass, stun-gun guitar, and a glorious sample of Japanese children ...

The new Calvin Johnson album A Wonderful Beast [KLP269] is an experiment in sound. Using the theory "Rock'n'roll Will Never Die" as a starting point, Calvin entered the Audio Eagle Studio in ...

The new Calvin Johnson album A Wonderful Beast [KLP269] is an experiment in sound. Using the theory "Rock'n'roll Will Never Die" as a starting point, Calvin entered the Audio Eagle Studio in ...

Rock'n'roll is dead. Gallows Wine [KLP287] is a wake for it's charred remains. Calvin Johnson traveled to Columbus, Mississippi to record Gallows Wine with the combo Hartle Road at their Pompeii ...

Rock'n'roll is dead. Gallows Wine [KLP287] is a wake for it's charred remains. Calvin Johnson traveled to Columbus, Mississippi to record Gallows Wine with the combo Hartle Road at their Pompeii ...

The first solo album by Calvin Johnson originally released in 2002, remastered and repressed with sparkling new cover art. What Was Me collects ten bits of lifeness and spreads them thickly with ...

The second album LAKE recorded for K, Let's Build a Roof [KLP213], included a song by drummer/multi-instrumentalist Lindsay Schief many consider one of its highlights, "Gravel". When the band ...

LAKE's 2009 album Let's Build A Roof [KLP213], produced by Northwest legend Karl Blau, is sweet, funky and nostalgic - a paragon of psychedelic pop. Originally, this landmark album had overlooked ...

Recorded in homes and hotels around Olympia, Washington, "Tickets to Real Imaginary Places" takes you on a voyage through the countryside of North Pacific America. Each morsel is akin to Peter and ...

Stylistically, Mahjongg is boundless and indefinable. From their very first EP through K's Kontpab (released earlier this year), Mahjongg have dabbled in beatbox punk, afro-beat revivalism and ...

Understanding, Mirah's 6th full length solo record, is a conscientious return to her early unconventional recording process - an embrace of spirited imperfection and rawness inclusive of rough first ...

Featuring Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill, Frumpies, Spider and the Webs and The Real Distractions) as well as scene stalwarts James Maeda, Olivia Ness (C.O.C.O.) and vocalist Sara Peté. Recorded live on a ...

Tremolo Babylon / Reverb soaked 4th generation calamity days / Now that every day is truly like Sunday / Feedback as language / Flip your Bass Drum on its head / "Fail at anything long enough and ...

This recording features Hayes Waring, Lillian Maring, Dave Harvey and D.A. Terence. Two lovers entwined in grief, having a party. It's a cool party, There's streamers there Michel Gaubert is there ...

In Portland, OR, in 1978, a radical form of artistic expression some refer to as "punk" or "new wave" was beginning to take shape, and at the heart of this legendary movement was the powerful ...

Gatefold Jacket! In Portland, OR, in 1978, a radical form of artistic expression some refer to as "punk" or "new wave" was beginning to take shape, and at the heart of this legendary movement was the ...

Release Date: 03.04.2000 File Under: Swamp Rock In-the-red drum pounding, frenetic upright bass pulses, skeletal guitar, scrapings and twisted throat singing! ...

Musicking is Old Time Relijun's tenth studio album. The record pounces fierce with the protest anthem "Break Through". Arrington De Dionyso's voice has gained some grit and even more gravitas. Like ...

Musicking is Old Time Relijun's tenth studio album.The record pounces fierce with the protest anthem "Break Through". Arrington De Dionyso's voice has gained some grit and even more gravitas. Like an ...

Old Time Relijun is an unearthly combo from Olympia, Washington. We don't throw words like "genius", "brilliant" or "legendary" around lightly. Nor do we use them to describe Old Time Relijun (though ...

Celebrate millenial hysteria with the apocalyptic rampage that is OLD TIME RELIJUN and their document to damnation "Uterus And Fire", where confused garage dub meets hillbilly twang on the free jazz ...

The Pine Hill Haints new release, Ghost Dance, takes its name from the late 19th century Native American movement. In many ways the movement died in flesh in the 1890's, but spiritual the cry has ...

The Magik Sounds of the Pine Hill Haints (KLP254), ventures softly into the cool, dark whisper of the haunted south. Short, tight spun rhymes about silver quarters and vampires come from a late ...

The mass depression that glows beneath the green star of capitalism has bred many strange things. Out of the wilderness of north Alabama come THE PINE HILL HAINTS. A ragged collection of junk ...

An Indie-pop daydream desperate melody with true love's aim. A voice subtle in its delivery and powerful in its affect. Hooks, lyrics, melody, tears. A teen tragedy - everyone's getting older, hearts ...

Ribbon Stage "My Favorite Shrine" this is international pop underground CXLV. The best love songs aren't really about a romance. Dolly mixing candied pleasure, fuzzed pressure and a little pain jump ...

Selector Dub Narcotic splinters the party into fun-sized fragments of dance acrobatics with "Bounce It out (Bounce It on out)" - the bubblegum stuck to the bottom of a trap house table-top. The ...

Will be out end of October. Three mixes of Comrade on the A, and 4 other tracks on the flip - this is the up and coming new North-Western trip/hip-hop movement, brought to you by K. Backed by the ...

Monday, In a Small Dull Town, Familiarity breeds contempt. And everything in a small town is familiar The Smashing Times spend the day listening to the radio. Billy Liar plays guitar. Rowan Morrison ...

"I know where Dan Treacy Lives" - And so do you if you live in Baltimore. You may try to look them up neé Barrett, neé Clark But just ask the Postman, they reside under the name The Smashing Times. ...

Smoke M2D6's boundary-pushing musical production and Jedi-like audio engineering have earned him wide and enthusiastic artistic acclaim, as well as a host of awards. As an MC, Smoke M2D6 has toured ...

Listening to The Softies has always felt like peeking into a diary, with no personal detail spared. Lyrically the band documents a lovelorn heart in every manifestation, and hope is the bright silver ...

Inspired by Bollywood, a trip to Morocco, and Serge Gainsbourg, Angelo Spencer's second full-length World Garage [KLP235] brings armloads of new instruments and the flavor of exotic locations to a ...

"L'Argent" [IPU131] is the second collaboration between Angelo Spencer et L'Orchidee d'Hawai resulting in a 45 rpm double-sider for the International Pop Underground series of 7" records. Although ...

There is protectiveness in the fist that holds a bag of wolf teeth. These incisors are each of the songs held inside Tender Forever's fourth EP. To spend time with this magic while the first of the ...

Following on the demise of MARINE RESEARCH, Amelia Fletcher has risen again in the guise of the TENDER TRAP. Accompained by her MARINE RESEARCH band-mates Rob Pursey and DJ Downfall, Amelia has ...

Better to light a match. Than fear the dark. Burning the negative Softly. Lye in your wounds and allow spiritual drifting. How do you pronounce Nietzsche? What is the Mise En Scene of two Olympia ...

Treepeople were a band of their time, the late '80s and early '90s, and their place, Boise, ID and Seattle, WA, who created punk music that lives on into a future they never imagined. The members of ...

ALL YOUR FRIEND'S FRIENDS [KLP255] is a seminal Northwest Hip-Hop compilation album produced entirely off of samples pulled from the K catalogue. Featuring over 30 of the most unique MCs from the ...

www.myspace.com/westernhymn Born in a cold, dark basement in 2009, Western Hymn is the uncouth union of two Olympia thoroughbreds: The Old Haunts and Bangs. A classic three-piece jammer, shaking ...

FROM THE DEPTHS OF DUB COMES THE CULTURE CLASH CLASSIC STEPPER, Adam Forkner, with his latest piece of hot wax [DBN125] White Rainbow - "The Making of Thriller" b/w Selector Dub Narcotic - "The ...

Kendl Winter is constantly on tour, so it's amazing that she somehow found the time to record her new 7" At the Same Time [DBN121;] But we're so glad she did! During a weekend stop-over in her ...

Young Pioneers - Dusting off their spurs, poised to release their long awaited debus LP, High Again on K. Veterans of the NW underground, Young Pioneers formed in Olympia's nascent punk scene during ...

Sonically, YUME BITSU has always been a hard band to pin down. Traversing across celestial landscapes imbued with drifting, lilting sheets of ambient guitars, keyboard driven astral landscapes, ...