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  Dolly Mixture. Everything about this band was perfect, including their name. They played punk rock in the '70s and early '80s with a pop feel, pop music like from the era of rock'n'roll, the '50s and '60s. I know, right? Also they look like the punk rockers we know, similar haircuts and style of dress. Their names are Hester, Rachel and Debsey; again, perfect. A knowing air with a provincial feel, sincere hard and soft at the same time. It just keeps getting better and better. Dolly Mixture released four 7" 45rpm phonograph records in the course of their...

Above: Sam  Jayne, Diana Arens, Love as Laughter The Greks Bring Gifts [KLP051] recording session outside Dub Narcotic Studio, 17th Ave SE, Olympia, Washington, 1995 (all photogs by Pat Castaldo). Diana Arens began her recording life as a live engineer on Olympia's community radio station  KAOS-FM. "I saw recording as an extension of the work I did at KAOS, documenting the creative scene."  She produced one of the first such broadcasts when Michelle Noel was hosting Lync on Color outside the Lines, April 12, 1993. Soon after she attended a Mecca Normal show in Seattle and was amazed by opening...

Above: Lync loose on the street, 1994: Dave, Sam, James; photog by Jeff Smith With the recent death of Sam Jayne the calls for access to the recordings of Lync have been redoubled, nay tripled! Sam planned to issue the Lync recordings on his own Tracks of Quality records label. K relinquished the master tapes to him about a decade ago for this purpose, but people, these things take time! It was only after Sam's death we learned he had issued the two Lync albums These Are Not Fall Colors and Remembering the Fireballs (Pt. 8) via the Tracks of...

Lois shares songs with us via the K Spotify page! The playlist she created features music by the B-52s, ShitKid, Sacred Paws, Marine Girls and more.