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Apr 10, 2023 · Rock. Label: K. Reviewed: April 10, 2023. Following the blues influences of his last solo album, the K Records founder’s new record offers a restless pastiche of primitive rock’n’roll,...
- What Was Me
When you first hear this album, you'll be transported into...
- A Wonderful Beast
Calvin Johnson’s key-ignoring baritone subverts any song it...
- Calvin Johnson
K Records Selling Headquarters to Pay Phil Elverum, Kimya...
- What Was Me
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230 followers. K Records' catalog includes the Dub Narcotic Disco Plate series. Share. Top-ranked albums. See full chart. #1. The Glow Pt. 2. The Microphones. #2. These Are Not Fall Colors. Lync. #3. Tiger Trap. #4. You Turn Me On. Beat Happening. #5. Holiday in Rhode Island. The Softies. #6. You Think It's Like This but Really It's Like This.
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Independent record labels are often guided by a singular vision, but few instantly evoke a particular artist’s voice. It’s hard not to associate K Records, though, with the sly, sensual baritone of Calvin Johnson. Founded in 1982 while Johnson was a student at Evergreen State College in his hometown of Olympia, Washington, K was initially a cassett...
K gained a reputation over the years for being one of the foremost proponents of twee: the musical style and counterculture that exalts all things meek, sugary, and antiquated. But K was never that obvious. The label has released everything from funk to hardcore, shoegaze to electro, garage rock to sludge. That eclecticism and adventurousness is bo...
For every appearance of Beck, Brock, or Cobain in K’s sprawling discography, there are dozens of lesser known artists—although some are legendary in their own right. The stalwart duo Mecca Normal was one of K’s early staples, although the band moved on from the label in the mid-’90s. The all-female band Tiger Trap released just one full-length, 199...
1. Beat Happening, Jamboree (1988) Not only does Beat Happening’s powerful second album, Jamboree, contain the trio’s best known song, “Indian Summer,” it covers Johnson and crew’s full range: from winsome and innocent to brooding and sexy, and from sweet and melodic to abrasive and noisy. 2. Tiger Trap, Tiger Trap (1993) Sometimes punk and frantic...
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Dec 19, 2022 · The K Records founder on Halo Benders, Beat Happening's "Indian Summer," the International Pop Underground Convention, and more.
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Jun 15, 2012 · By Jenn Pelly. June 15, 2012. Love Rock Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music, a history of the pivotal Olympia, Washington label K Records, will be published by Sasquatch...
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Jul 7, 2012 · "Love Rock Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music," a new book by Mark Baumgarten about the influential popular-music scene in Olympia in the '80s and '90s, is crammed with...
