If you haven’t heard the news, the Pine Hill Haints will be releasing Welcome to the Midnight Opry (KLP236) Tuesday, October 4! Boy is this record a doozy - it’s their third full-length on K, and the Haints have never sounded better (and if you’ve been privileged to hear the Ghost Dance and/or To Win or To Lose, then you know we’re really saying something).

If your appetite needs whetting, here’s “Moon Shadow,” warm-hearted and lovelorn. 

Like apple pie on the last day of summer: Kendl Winter’s “At the Same Time,” from her Dub Narcotic Disco Plate of the same name. This track was recorded by Calvin Johnson at the esteemed Dub Narcotic Studio, and the B-side gets the graceful remix treatment from Selector Dub Narcotic.

“At the Same Time” b/w “The Same Version” (DBN121) was released on June 7, 2011. This fine 7” is available from the wonderful folks over at the K Mail Order Dept.

This picture of Kendl was taken on her houseboat by K’s own Sarah Cass in 2011.

If you haven’t heard Angelo Spencer et les Hauts Sommets’ summer waverider, World Garage (KLP235), then hop on and get wet!

Here’s “3 Heures,” the album’s halfway point. What a ripper!

Little Wings will be playing the Fall Flood Festival in San Luis Obispo next weekend! Kyle’s got three sets - one mystery set, one solo acoustic, and one backed by Sparrow’s Gate. Check the dates below:

Sep 24, 2011 - San Luis Obispo, CA
afternoon show @ Cuesta Park (2400 Loomis Street) - FALL FLOOD FESTIVAL - The Shants, Sea Birds, The Booker Tease

Sep 24, 2011 - San Luis Obispo, CA
night show @ Kreuzberg, CA (685 Higuera Street) - FALL FLOOD FESTIVAL - Mel Russo, Bob Thayer & Joe Lewis, The Shants

Sep 25, 2011 - San Luis Obispo, CA
Linnaea’s Cafe (1110 Garden Street) - FALL FLOOD FESTIVAL - the Shants, Sea Birds, The Dead Volts, Siblings, Dedications, Sparrows Gate, West, The Marquees, Nattlesnakes, Blackstrap Molasses, Australian for Kids, Lostribe

Here’s the LP version of “Sandbar,” for those that have never be privileged to hear it.

Fred Thomas (Saturday Looks Good to Me, City Center) is in the Dub Narcotic Studio this week, helping put some finishing touches on a mysterious project with Calvin Johnson. Who knows what magic they are brewing down there? Who are all these talented musicans coming in and out of the studio? Who and what are these Hive Dwellers? We’ll find out sometime in 2012. 

Speaking of City Center, the band (Thomas and collaborator Ryan Howard) put out the soundtrack to the summer, Redeemer (KLP231), this past May. Here’s “Modern Love,” one feisty rock jam.

A mid-Monday dose of Little Medium Miss Dynamite: The Maxines blow it up with a cover of Brenda Lee’s classic “Sweet Nothin’s.”

Sultry punk rock? Why not, we say - we like it that way.

This song was recorded at Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, WA in May 2011. Other songs from this session will be featured on The Maxines’ upcoming Drugstore 7” EP (IPU140) on January 24, 2012. Need more medicine? Get your dose of the title track here. Watch your dosage, this stuff packs a wallop.

Melanie Valera and Christopher Doulgeris of Tender Forever spent many hours, months, nights and days this past spring working overtime to record their new EP Where Are We from [KLP237]. They divided their recording activity between our Dub Narcotic Studio here in Olympia, Washington, and Christopher’s Portland, Oregon studio known as The Den. The Where Are We from EP is about the journeys we take in life and how different paths can lead us to surprising places. Each song on the EP explores a different aspect of this idea - “The Road Was Unkind” was recorded entirely at Dub Narcotic. Melanie and Christopher both played a marimba-like instrument they found in the studio, a remnant of when Dub Narcotic was located in the same building as Musical Furnishings, an Olympia woodshop that builds marimbas into chairs, chests, tables.

If you need some winter soul fuel, mark your calendars: Where Are We From will be released on December 6, 2011. This EP is a succinct, beautiful beast and will keep you super toasty when you need it most.

“Gravel,” the A-side from LAKE’s upcoming Disco Plate “Gravel” b/w “Re-Grade” (DBN116), sets you sailing through a sea of sugar.

Be sure to catch LAKE on Sep 5th at this year’s Bumbershoot (where they’re “opening” for Hall and Oates)!

HAVE A TREAT. Here’s “Lynch the Swan,” the A-side from the Hive Dwellers upcoming 7” 45 Dub Narcotic Disco Plate, “Lynch the Swan” b/w “Dub the Swan” (DBN126).

Sometime in the near future we’ll post up Selector Dub Narcotic’s delish remix - keep your ears peeled!

“Lynch the Swan” b/w “Dub the Swan” comes out on Oct. 4, 2011. It’ll be available from the K Mail Order Dept. as well from your favorite local independent resale outlet of musical goods for sonic pleasure.

The Pine Hill Haints rise out of dusty Alabama like a spectre to dance with shadows to the tune of their infectious ghost country. “I Wish I Was a Jack-O-Fire,” from their upcoming LP Welcome to the Midnight Opry [KLP236], captures the haunting timelessness of watching fireflies turn into stars.

A sneak preview of White Rainbow’s upcoming Dub Narcotic Disco Plate, “The Making of Thriller” b/w “The Making of Star Wars” [DBN125] showcases them interstellar soul beats Adam Forkner has been churning out for years - hyper-speed black hole hypnosis.

No need to cry out in anticipation, “The Making of Star Wars” features the collaboration of Forkner and Calvin Johnson that we know you’ve all been dying for (whether you knew it or not)!

Is there possibly a better way to enjoy an Oly summer day than by drifting off under the sun to the sweet sounds of Angelo Spencer’s “Gallop?” We think not.

Angelo Spencer et le Hauts Sommets‘ World Garage (KLP235) came out on K last month and since then it’s served as our perfect summer soundtrack.

Nucular Aminals wants you to kill your dogs. Because… they’re nucular, or something. We think they’re kidding. “Kill Your Dogs” is the B-side to Nucular Aminals upcoming single, “Nobody’s Man” b/w “Kill Your Dogs” and “Garrison + Phillips/Garrison Phillips” [IPU137], out 9/6/2011 on K.

I found the 7” originally released on Time Bomb Records for this song & remembered that some of the tracks are also on KLP092 I Want Some (a compilation of singles) & I fell into a deep MAKE-UP trance.

Curious about new K band the Maxines? Talk a walk down to the “Drugstore” and see if they let you in the door.

The Maxines Drugstore 7” EP (IPU140) will be out late 2011 on K.