May 2009
53 posts
Mika Miko, Vivian Girls, Blank Dogs, Gay Beast,...
PPM23 Mika Miko - We Be XUXA CD/LP (PPM) 07VIVIAWILD Vivian Girls - Wild Eyes 7” (Wild World) ITR168CD Blank Dogs - Under and Under CD (In The Red)
CDGAYBSECO Gay Beast - Second Wave CD/LP (Skin Graft) SB103CD Tyvek - Tyvek CD/LP (Siltbreeze) Recently Added to Distro: RH0017 Horse Feathers - Road To Run 7” (Regional Hits) http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=RH0017 ...
Salutations: Spring Sale Ends 5/31
Hi Everyone, Spring is coming to an end. It’s getting so hot I had to cut my hair. Then I thought about beards. If I had one I would, just like, SHAAAVVE…but hey, that’s just me! Beard Man (You’re Not My Friend, No Offense Joe) was so ahead of it’s time! If that makes no sense listen to the Frumpies:...
Mika Miko We Be XUXA, C.Y.S.L.A.B.F. Sale/Restock
PPM23 Mika Miko We Be XUXA CD/LP
Mika Miko’s first full length since 2006! A perfect punk, power record. The songs are ripping, played by record collectors but never pretentious, “We Be Xuxa” is a loud, snarling fun masterpiece. Finally a record that captures Mika Miko’s live energy and their growing song writing skills, you will not be disappointed.
KRS467 Mika Miko...
Demo of the Week: Wampire
FREE MP3
Wampire is a group from the green pastures of Portland, OR
Wampire is formed of Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps, who have been friends and musically married since they met in band class in 5th grade. The music has a strong emphasis on simple percussion, passionate melodies, and a stream of consciousness lyrical style which sometimes dissolve into simple sing alongs. It’s hard to...
Wampire-Orchards
The Thermals On Sale, Ends Sunday May 31
WatchThe Thermals Make Stuff
New pAper chAse Video Premieres Today!
Pitchfork premiered the new video for What Should We Do With Your Body (The Lightning) today WARNING: it is a little bit graphic if you’re squeamish.
Happy Record Release Day pAper chAse!
Salutations Everybody, We hope you dug your extended weekend…in Olympia the sun is gone, making it a little easier to go back to work. This is to remind you that the new pAper chAse CD is out today! All pre-orders that were placed before the weekends shipped last week so you should have those by now. If not you will get it soon, we promise. If you placed a pre-order over the weekend, it...
Salutations: pAper chAse Pre-Orders Shipped
Dear everyone-who-reads-this-thing, This week there is a new Pre-Order up (Portland Cello Project), some good news, some sad news, a new Sale (Spring Cleaning for reals) & a bunch of Tour Dates The big news this week is that the pAper chAse Pre-Orders have shipped. if you haven’t ordered yours yet, you still have time: http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=KRS502 It comes out on...
Mecca Normal's 25th Anniversary Tour: Toronto 5/22
http://meccanormaltour.wordpress.com/ MECCA NORMAL presents “How Art & Music Can Change the World” — an art, music and lecture event featuring David Lester’s Inspired Agitators Poster Series http://www.freewebs.com/meccanormal/inspiredagitators.htm Over The Top Festival Friday, May 22 6 Nassau Street — Kensington Market Toronto Doors at 8 PM, the lecture will...
Pre-Order: Portland Cello Project, Out 6/9
KRS508 Portland Cello Project - The Thao and Justin Power Session **PRE-ORDER**CD
PCP’s newest full-length is being released on June 9th, 2009 on their new label, local independent Kill Rock Stars. This CD – and indeed the relationship forged with this well-suited record label – embodies the group’s belief that “collaboration is the cornerstone of independence and artistic freedom.” Two...
The Portland Cello Project (featuring...
Demo of the Week: Awesomes
FREE MP3 here
awesomes are a noisy female duo from the bay area featuring marissa magic (punks, the gay science, divine feud) and kandis (divine feud)
screeching vocals… thundering drums… explosive effects!
here’s what marissa had to say about her new group:
The technicals of it is that me and Kandis met by playing in the divine feud together, and then that disintegrated,...
awesomes-lilith hair
Spring Cleaning Sale: KRS Merch, Posters, T Shirts...
Hi, we added some spring cleaning clearance type stuff to our May Sale Hope you dig it.
xo
Tobi/KRS Mail Order
KRS Hoody’s:
KRS100S3 Kill Rock Stars - Star Logo Hoody-Gold on Navy $25
KRSJ1 Kill Rock Stars - Fon-Lin Logo Sweatshirt $25
KRS Merch: KRS13 Kill Rock Stars - Sarah Utter Record Player Bag-White on Black $20 KRS14 Kill Rock Stars - Sarah Utter Record Player Bag-White on...
The pAper chAse Pre-Order is Shipping Now, Free...
THE PAPER CHASE PRE-ORDER IS UP, FREE MP3 We’ll be releasing the third album from The pAper chAse at the end of this month, May 26th to be exact. It’s called Someday This Could All Be Yours (Part 1) and we have a free track for you to preview: What Should We Do With Your Body ( The Lightning) If you order your copy from us now you get a free button with your order
The Paper Chase-What Should We Do
Thermals LP & T Shirt, Buttons & Sticker $23
This is up by popular demand for a limited time only: KRS504TLPPA The Thermals - Now We Can See T & LP Pack $23 Get The Thermals Now We Can See T & LP together at a great price for a limited time only. Come with FREE sticker and FREE Thermals buttons while supplies last. Saves $9.
New Distro: Horse Feathers, Tara Jane O'Neil, Joey...
new in distro
RH0017 Horse Feathers - Road To Run 7” KLP207 Tara Jane O’Neil - A Ways Away LP DBN115 Joey Casio - Share the Cup 7”
KLP203 Chain and the Gang - Down with Liberty…Up with Chains! LP/CD
KLP195 Mirah - (a)spera LP/CD
Recent Restocks: The Gossip, Spider and the Webs...
hey we got a bunch of K stuff back in stock last week: vinyl restocks
IPU96 The Gossip - The Gossip 7” IPU109 Spider and the Webs - Frozen Roses 7”
KLP86 Cadallaca - Introducing Cadallaca LP
KLP94 Miranda July and IQU - Girls on Dates 12” KLP193 Kimya Dawson - Alphabutt LP
KLP179 The Blow - The Paper Television LP
KLP177 Mirah - Joyride: Remixes LP
Salutations: Olympia Has a New All Ages Club 5/15
Hello again. It’s Friday evening in sunny Olympia, WA. Spring has really kicked in. The Farmer’s Market is open and I just subscribed to my CSA. I took a walk over to K Records this afternoon to pick up some new distro items and restocks On the way I passed The Track House, which is having a record release party for local pop-punk sensations, Glue tonight This reminds me to mention...
Demo of the Week: Braidstorm
Braidstorm is Seattle’s 3rd best band.
FREE MP3 here
Storming house shows and hot spots since January 2009, Braidstorm is a million strands of hair bonded together and causing mass chaos. 2/3 drum, 1/3 bass, 150 percent gang vocals, Braidstorm is a triad of crunky musical mastery reminiscent of Delta 5, ESG, and other things good for jamming around on your skateboard or laying...
Braidstorm-Grand Fur
$20 Thermals Pack Special Offer Ends Friday 5/15
KRS504TCDPAC The Thermals - Now We Can See T & CD Pack $20 Get The Thermals Now We Can See T & CD together at a great price for a limited time only. Come with FREE sticker and FREE Thermals buttons while supplies last. Click Here to check out all our Thermals Merch
THAO SALE: CDs, LPs & T SHIRTS FROM $7.99, ENDS...
KRS481T Thao - We Brave Bee Stings and All T KRS481 Thao - We Brave Bee Stings and All CD/LP with download code
Salutations: KRS is Back from Bejing; New...
hey how’s it going? we got some cool pictures from Kill Rock Stars Live in Bejing 2009 here and videos of Panther and Deerhoof here Maggie’s been busy since she got back, but we hope to get a full report back soon, it looks totally amazing! the big news this week is that the The pAper chAse pre-order is up now, which comes with a FREE BUTTON also, media mail rates are going up...
The pAper chAse - Someday This Could All Be Yours...
new pre-order:
KRS502 The pAper chAse - Someday This Could All Be Yours (Part 1) **PRE-ORDER** CD There is a moment on Someday This Could All Be Yours (Part 1)—the fifth full-length by The Paper Chase—in which the final note of track two fades into a brief moment of silence. This is a peculiar development in the catalog of a band that has historically filled every second of its...
Flipper, Magik Markers, The Oh Sees, Rites of...
new in distro
more flipper on vinyl
LPFLIPPALBU Flipper - Album Generic Flipper LP
CDMAGIKBALF Magik Markers - Balf Quarry CD/LP
TR171CD Thee Oh Sees - Help CD/LP
LPRITESEND Rites of Spring - End on End LP w/ digital download coupon
CDSCREAPOWE Screaming Females - Power Move CDLP
LPPOCAHPASS Pocahaunted - Passage LP check all vinyl here:...
Last Day to Get This Thermals Pack!
This Special Offer Ends Tomorrow, FRi 5/8
Get Everything We Sell By The Thermals for $45! KRS504TPAC The Thermals Now We Can See T Pack The Thermals Now We Can See T, CD, LP w/ digital download code and 7” with 5 buttons and a sticker!
Demo of the Week: Broken Water
Here’s a FREE MP3
Broken Water are a newish group from Olympia, WA
Broken Water sounds like your mom giving birth to a 69 fender twin reverb amplifier under the ocean. Eraserhead is the baby daddy. Broken Water will be self releasing a 7in and a cd in June.
Abby shreds on the bass with Broken Water when not shredding the bass with Congratulations or building peahoodies for Abigail...
Broken Water-Boyfriend Hole
Explode Into Colors-Best New Band
you read it here first
The Portland “music insiders” have spoken and named Explode Into Colors the best new band of 2009. Read the Willamette Week article here They will be playing a free show at Berbati’s this Saturday w/ Nurses and White Fang. P.S. Nice shirt Lisa.
bottled water creates unnecessary waste
“Bottled water is wasteful and requires large amounts of energy to bottle and transport. Over 450 million gallons of oil are used to transport water from bottling plants to stores. In the United States, plastic water bottle manufacturing uses 17 million barrels of oil, producing over 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution. Eighty percent of these bottles, which are equal to four...
Jean Smith from Mecca Normal
is witing about the recent Mecca Normal tour on her myspace blog
not sure if you can read it if you are not her “friend”, but here is her page
today i read a post where she responded to something a 19 year old woman wrote to her after seeing a show that she didn’t feel necessarily went that well. to read how reading this woman’s response impacts her sense of what it meant...
RECENT RESTOCKS: Wipers, Vivian Girls, Elliott...
Vinyl: LPWIPERIST The Wipers - Is This Real? LP http://www.buyolympia.com/krsnew/Item=LPWIPERIST ITR126 Vivian Girls - I Can’t Stay 7” http://www.buyolympia.com/krsnew/Item=ITR126 ITR161CD Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls LP http://www.buyolympia.com/krsnew/Item=ITR161CD SB94LP U.S. Girls - Introducing… LP http://www.buyolympia.com/krsnew/Item=SB94LP LPHOSPIHAIR Hospitals - Hairdryer...
New Distro: Flipper Vinyl & Hospitals on CD
CDFLIPPGONE Flipper - Gone Fishin’ LP
check out more flipper here
more vinyl here
LPHOSPIHAIR Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace CD
this is also available on vinyl
check out more distro here
Recently Added:
YG20LP Devendra Barnhart - Oh Me Oh My….The Way The Day Goes By The Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs Of The Christmas Spirit)-LP...
THE THERMALS T SHIRT PACKS UP UNTIL FRI 5/8, FRI...
This one will be for sale until Friday 5/8: KRS504TPAC The Thermals Now We Can See T Pack The Thermals Now We Can See T, CD, LP w/ digital download code and 7” with 5 buttons and a sticker! This one will be for sale until Friday 5/15: KRS504TCDPAC The Thermals - Now We Can See T & CD Pack $20 Get The Thermals Now We Can See T & CD together at a great price for a limited time only....
new gossip track!!
Heavy Cross by The Gossip streaming
