By Jeremy Bertsche “It’s dumb,” sings Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum on the first track of his devastating, heartfelt new record, “A Crow Looked At Me”, “and I don’t want to learn anything from this.” Yet just as quickly as the most thematically naked track, “Real Death,” eschews the saccharine and […]
Best New Music: LAKE – “Circular Doorway”
LAKE – CIRCULAR DOORWAY (K Records) By ISSAC SCOTT LAKE assembles a cabal of talented players for laid back, vintage-sounding grooves in what is arguably most quintessentially Olympia band imaginable. Nearing a decade since their first release, Circular Doorway shows that the quartet has settled comfortably into their offbeat pop […]
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Bob Schwenkler is an important force behind Olympia’s music scene. From founding Bicycle Records while a student at Evergreen, to recording some of the Northwest’s best bands, Schwenkler now helms K Record’s legendary Dub Narcotic studio. Schwenkler has made a lasting impact on the music Olympia listens to and the […]
Album Review: LAKE – Circular Doorway
The first of two new LP’s from K Records staple LAKE displays the band at their most laid-back and groovy. Circular Doorway continues the band’s nearly decade-long journey into the land of ‘what if Fleetwood Mac were hip locals living on Olympia’s west side?’ Funky keyboards and percussion drift through […]
Show Review: The Shivas at the Brotherhood
The Sunday late-night crowd may not have been large at Olympia’s Brotherhood Lounge this weekend, but the energy was certainly palpable. Three bands were set to take the stage, culminating in the rock n’ roll quartet known as The Shivas, from Vancouver, Wash. Kicking their set off with the aptly […]