Adorable flier for the Hive Dwellers show this weekend with Craig Extine and the Exiles and Witch Gardens. If you are in Seattle this weekend, you should go to Rendezvous tomorrow and catch this show!! 

Helsing Junction Sleepover 2012!

K only throws one festival a year: The Helsing Junction Sleepover, three nights of music and blissed-out camping in Rochester, WA at Helsing Farm.  Pack up your cars and come hang with us for our seventh year under the stars!  Dance with Calvin into the wee hours of the morning, and help us celebrate thirty years of K! 
 
Helsing tickets are available now online at www.krecs.com/helsingjunction, $40 for full weekend pass.

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Calvin Johnson & K Records cover CityArts Magazine, June 2012 [download]

OLYMPIA, SAVE THE DATE!  

The first show at the NEW NORTHERN ALL AGES SPACE!  

The homecoming finale of THE HIVE DWELLERS TOUR!

And, of course, ARTSWALK!

(PS Sarah Cass, what a beautiful poster…)

The Hive Dwellers chat with Ross Long outside of Ad Astra Books and Coffee House in Salina, KS. Man, those guys are just too cool! And don’t forget to check out The Hive Dweller’s tour dates over at our shows page!

The Northwest Folklife Festival is coordinating a series of short films called Northwest Stories about the many different cultural communities in the Northwest that are interwoven into the annual Northwest Folklife Festival (held every Memorial Day weekend at the Seattle Center). This episode, entitled Northwest Music & Arts, explores the underground music scene in Olympia and Seattle and it’s propensity to organize events accessible to audience members of all ages. Sweetness. Featured are Tender Forever, the Hive Dwellers and Mariella Luz of the Olympia All Ages Project (she is also General Manager of K). This segment was produced by Doug Plummer.

SEATTLE!  THE HIVE DWELLERS (Calvin Johnson & ensemble), ANGELO SPENCER, & ASHLEY ERIKSSON (of LAKE) are playing together tonight at CAIRO!  Such a beautiful space and its going to be an really really good show.  Man, really.  You should GO.

Read more about the show here: http://cairocollection.blogspot.com/.

(If you can’t make tonight, the trio is also playing in Port Townsend tomorrow http://www.theundertown.com/ & Olympia on Sunday!)

Lovers of the 7” 45rpm format, delight: today is the release date for three new K 7”s today, including the Pine Hill Haints’ “Tales of Crime” (IPU138), White Rainbow’s “The Making of Thriller” (DBN125), and the Hive Dwellers ”Lynch the Swan” (DBN126).  

To celebrate, here’s the Haints with “Tales of Crime (Part 2)”.

Tomorrow is a big release day for K 7”s, including the Hive Dwellers “Lynch the Swan” b/w “Dub the Swan” (DBN126) Dub Narcotic Disco Plate. The Seattle Weekly is streaming the whole thing today, including the previously-undisclosed “Dub the Swan”. It’s a beauty, have a listen!

It begins: Calvin Johnson will soon embark for regions south on a two-week tour, playing shows in cities and towns along the Pacific Coast. Check the schedule:

• 11/09/11 @ 8pm - Wandering Goat (268 Madison St. Eugene, OR)   w/ Stay Tuned
• 11/13/11 @ 8pm - The Smell (247 S. Main St., Los Angeles, CA)   w/ Katie & the Lichen, Mansion Music, KMVP
• 11/14/11 @ 9:00 PM - Kreuzberg CA (685 Higuera St. San Luis Obispo, CA)   w/ Katie & the Lichen, Mansion Music, KMVP
• 11/18/11 @ 8pm - Bows & Arrows (1815 19th St. Sacramento, CA)    w/ Mom, Katie & the Lichen, Mansion Music, KMVP
• 11/19/11 @ 8pm - Rayray Gallery (530 Broadway St. Chico, CA)    w/ Barbara Manning, Fera, w/ Katie & the Lichen, Mansion Music, KMVP
• 11/20/11 @ 8pm - Interzone (1563 NW Monroe Ave Corvallis, OR)    w/ Katie & the Lichen, Mansion Music, KMVP
• 11/21/11 @ 8pm - House of Preblon (420 SE 10th Ave Portland, OR)    w/ White Rainbow, The Memories, w/ Katie & the Lichen, Mansion Music, KMVP

OH and here’s a Selector Dub Narcotic delectable date:

• 11/15/11 at 9pm - Bar 355  (355 19th Street. Oakland, CA) w/ Katie & the Lichen, Mansion Music, KMVP

Selector Dub Narcotic has cut up the sheets of “Lynch the Swan” and sewn them back in weird, warm ways - here’s “Dub the Swan”, the B-side of the upcoming Dub Narcotic Disco Plate by The Hive Dwellers.

“Lynch the Swan” b/w “Dub the Swan” will be officially released on November 15, 2011 but can be ordered now from the K Mail Order Dept.

From the archives:

Calvin Johnson performs “Lynch The Swan” at Heaven Gallery in Chicago, IL on September 22, 2009. Calvin is currently in Chicago recording Mahjongg’s new record, to be released on K in the future. Filmed by Chad Paulson.

ATTN OLYMPIA - two killer shows coming up this weekend:

• 11/4/2011 - Tender Forever, Romanteek, and STLS at the Midnight Sun (facebook)
• 11/5/2011 - The Hive Dwellers, Kendl Winter, and Carolyn Mark at the ABC House (facebook)

See you there!

The Hive Dwellers perform “Get In” under a dreamy tree at the 2011 Helsing Junction Sleepover. Oh summertime….

Here are a couple more for your viewing pleasure: “Ain’t Nothin’ Left for Me But the Buryin’” and “Pine-Shaped Box”.

Firestarter.

btw, for your Olympia folks - The Hive Dwellers and Kendl Winter will be playing at the ABC House next Saturday, the 5th of November.