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Boot Party, the debut album from Dub Narcotic Sound System is avail once again.

  This Friday (August 27) is the official release date of the new album Fake Books [KLP278] by Olymp combo The Moving Pictures. In the record business we refer to August 27 as the "street date", which is the day the LP will be available in record stores, though Fake Books has been available as a digital album (from all the usual suspects) throughout the summer. that's show biz. Fake Books is a co-release between and Perennial, a local label operated by Hayes of The Moving Pictures (pictured, above). Perennial is responsible for scads of groovy recs from the last...

The new comedic series Reservation Dogs uses 20 seconds of the Beat Happening song "Our Secret" in this week's episode.

  Above: Beat Happening "Crashing Through (Meyering Mix)" cover art by Heather Lewis After the first Beat Happening album was released in 1985, we had the idea of recording some of our newer songs (this is a band that had existed for only two years at that point). We gathered together all our ideas and headed to Yo-Yo Studio, which at the time was located in a converted chicken coop on the rural far Westside of Olympia. It doubled as the residence of Patrick Maley, Yo-Yo Studio proprietor. Patrick had us record some songs there in the chicken coop, and...

Above: Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey of The Catenary Wires The new album by The Catenary Wires, Birling Gap (Skepwax/Shelflife), is graced with a photog of cliffs of white, one of England's many claims to fame. "It's a good emblem of England," says vocalist Rob Pursey, as Birling Gap "combines various versions of England and how England thinks of itself."  The cover photog was meant to be of the whole band (Rob plus Amelia Fletcher, Fay Hallem, Ian Button and Andy Lewis) standing at the cliffs overlooking the sea. Rob went there on a "recce mission" with his father (whose...