K Records Turns 25
Don't know about you, but there was a time we basically purchased anything with the shield 'n' the K log affixed to it ... we're talking early/mid 90s in those glorious days of Beat Happening, Some Velvet Sidewalk, Lois, the Softies, Tiger Trap, Karp, etc. Believe it or not, K Records the little Olympia D.I.Y. label that could, was founded twenty-five years ago this month. To celebrate, the folks at Asthmatic Kitty are hosting a "cyber-party" that started yesterday with a real-life cake delivered to K Records' office via Secretly Canadian.
Since we can't offer you a slice of the sweet stuff, head over to the AK website and stream a bunch of covers of K artists. There are tracks by Danielson, Adam Gnade, Half-Handed Cloud, as well as a couple we'd like to share with you now: My Brightest Diamond collaborator DM Stith -- he did the artwork for Bring Me The Workhorse -- putting a world-weary, but somehow breezy spin on the Microphones "You'll Be In The Air" and Vermont popsters Hello Shark nailing that old K bedroom vibe with a cover of Tender Trap's "Marry Me." Total Six Cents & Natalie flashbacks...
DM Stith - "You'll Be In The Air" (MP3)
Hello Shark - "Marry Me" (MP3)
The Kitties tell us that more tracks will be added as the party continues, including Liz Janes taking on Old Time Relijun and some ex-Lavender Diamond/Pink And Brown project tackling someone else.
It's always nice to read while you listen (right?), so there'll also be a bunch of K remembrances, reviews, profiles, and the like on AK's "sidebar." It's all over at the end of September, so hurry up ... In the meantime, since we have a couple weeks of partying to do, how 'bout you get us started with your own memories or favorite K bands past 'n' present? Or maybe just how much you miss the Microphones...
Posted at 5:44 PM in MP3
Tags: DM Stith | Hello Shark | Microphones | Tender Trap
yeah the microphones aren't gone. they're just mount eerie now. c'mon i thought you guys were HUUUUUGE k records fans.
well anyway this was a nice post for me since i've been blasting beat happening's "black candy" almost non-stop all this week.
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sure, Liam, we know mt eerie, but it's just not the same...
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Ship To Shore is still one of my favorite slow jams. Thanks for making that song possible for me to listen to, K Records.
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how do u do that music thangie
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actually mt eerie is the same. but i get what youre saying. check out his new book. the love is all still there and so is the magic, people just didnt give the most recent album any chance at all. microphones/mt eerie forever.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMXW2W3NXM8
cool video about this comment if u watch it.
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iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii could not get throooooough septeeemmmberrrrrrrrr withoooutt a baaaaatttle.
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never got into the K records stuff. all I kind of remember about them is that kurt cobain used to send them demos and letters because he really wanted to be on K records. looking band in hindsight maybe some labels should take a closer look at the freakish fans. you never know what you might find. that must have been a hard bowl of dicks to swallow. we passed on kurt! we're a footnote! yay! kudos to them anyway for 25 years!
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k records farted, and out came jizzum/ that calvin dude should be sent to prison/ cuz his records have no rhythm, white boy got no soul/ just an asshole, that he likes stuff stuff in/ like a motherfucking altoids tin/ sideways, he ain't straight, he's gayer than gertrude stein/ tender buttons pushed when he reclines/ before a cock/ he likes to block out spaces/ and dribble jizz on faces/ the small faces, in fact, a band that really was whack/ and overrated, like beat happening/ if those bands mated it would be deafeaning in it's silence/ calvin's johnson is responsible for violence/ in my butt
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buttcockandthemarychain:
You are a homophobic idiot.
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first date with the wife was K Records show for the band Pork
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woo!
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It's not Tender Trap it's Tender Forever.
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Hello Shark forever!
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it's funny, i like asthmatic kitty a lot better than k.
though i did find this by searching "adam gnade" who's my new favorite. looks like this is all there is on him.
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